“A U.S. woman pleaded guilty Tuesday [6/7/2022] to operating an all-female military group for ISIS in Syria.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, who became the leader of the ISIS battalion known as Khatiba Nusaybah, taught women how to use AK-47s and explosive devices, according to the U.S. Justice Department. …
Fluke-Ekren, who used to live in Kansas, was part of ‘terrorism-related activities’ in Syria, Libya and Iraq between 2011 and 2019 …
In 2014, prosecutors said Fluke-Ekren told a witness about her desire to carry out an attack on U.S. soil. … ‘Fluke-Ekren further said that she considered any attack that did not kill a large number of individuals to be a waste of resources,’ according to prosecutors … [and] ‘that it was important to kill the ‘kuffar’ (disbelievers) and die as martyrs on behalf of ISIS in Syria.'”
– Shauneen Miranda, “A U.S. Woman Pleads Guilty To Leading an All-female ISIS Battalion,” npr.org, June 8, 2022
Editor’s note: According to most historians of the Islamic State (also referred to as ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh), “the group emerged out of al-Qaeda in Iraq as a response to the U.S. invasion in 2003.” See Hassan Hassan, “The True Origins of ISIS,” theatlantic.com, November 30, 2018, for more information.