British 'Jihadist' Mum Threatens To Behead Christians: Reports
London (AFP) - A middle-aged
British mother-of-two and former rock band member has joined jihadists
in Syria and wants to behead Christians with a "blunt knife", British
media reported.
The reports
identified the woman as Sally Jones, 45, from Kent in southeast England,
and said she now goes by the name Sakinah Hussain, or Umm Hussain
al-Britani.
Security experts
estimate that hundreds of Britons have gone to the Middle East to join
the Islamic State (IS) militant group, the most brutal to emerge out of
Syria's bloody civil war and the most successful.
The
well-funded group controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq and has
proved adept at using social media to boost its profile, attract
recruits and terrify enemies with images of mass executions and
battlefield victories.
Last week another female British jihadist
reportedly in Syria, known as Khadijah Dare, purportedly tweeted that
she wanted to be the first woman to kill a British or US "terrorist".The Daily Mail and the Sunday Times alleged that Jones, a convert to Islam, travelled to Syria after an online romance with convicted 20-year-old computer hacker Junaid Hussain, and is now based in the IS stronghold of Raqa.
The Sunday Times said she
had tweeted last week saying: "You Christians all need beheading with a
nice blunt knife and stuck on the railing at raqqa... Come here I'll do
it for you!"
Jones' Twitter account was still active on Monday,
but could not be independently verified and the post quoted by the
newspaper was not on her timeline.The alleged threat is likely to be taken seriously by British security agencies after an IS video posted online last month showed a man with a British accent beheading US freelance journalist James Foley.
The brazen execution heaped pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron to toughen anti-jihadist security measures, and Britain has since raised its terror alert level to "severe", citing the threat from returning jihadists.
Jones'
twitter account banner page features a photo of man who appears to be
Junaid Hussain, and another tweet says she and her "husband" --
presumably Junaid -- had been stuck in Syria's northwestern city of
Idlib for seven months before joining the "khilafa".
The "khilafa" is the Arabic word for caliphate, a sovereign, religiously led state IS have declared in lands they control.
Cameron is expected to outline tougher measures against jihadist suspects later on Monday.
Source:yahoo.com
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