A Kansas woman who spent years leading an all-female battalion of the Islamic State group in Syria was sentenced this week to 20 years for providing material support to ISIS.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, organized the “Khatibah Nusaybah,” a unit comprised solely of women married to ISIS fighters. While leading that group, she trained more than 100 women and girls, some as young as 10 years old, on the use of automatic weapons, grenades, and suicide belts.
According to court documents, Fluke-Ekren was also involved in “planning and recruiting operatives for a potential future attack on a college campus in the United States,” as well as “translating speeches made by ISIS leaders, training children on the use of AK-47 assault rifles and suicide vests, and teaching extremist ISIS doctrine.
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Source: Task & Purpose