An American lady who led an all-female Islamic State battalion was sentenced to twenty years in jail Tuesday after she admitted to coaching dozens of ladies and ladies in Syria for the militant group generally known as ISIS, federal authorities stated.
At a sentencing listening to Tuesday, the grownup daughter of Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, accused her mom of extreme abuse, together with coercing her to marry an ISIS fighter, the federal prosecutor’s workplace in Virginia’s Jap District stated in a information launch.
The daughter was 13 on the time, the discharge stated.
Fluke-Ekren’s grownup son, who additionally spoke throughout the listening to, stated his mom tried to steer him to go away the U.S. for Syria to forestall him from offering info to authorities that might “compromise her,” the discharge stated.
The jail time period given to Fluke-Ekren, previously of Kansas, was the utmost sentence allowed below a plea settlement reached in June.
A lawyer for Fluke-Ekren declined to remark Tuesday. In a court docket submitting Monday, her attorneys described the abuse allegations as “uncorroborated” and “un-investigated.”
A few of the claims are “so outrageous they’re inherently unimaginable,” the submitting added.
In line with the prosecutor’s workplace, Fluke-Ekren left the U.S. for Egypt in 2008 along with her second husband, who later grew to become ISIS’ sniper chief in Syria. After he was killed in an airstrike in 2016, Fluke-Ekren married a drone professional.
After having hung out in Libya and Iraq, Fluke-Ekren — who was fluent in Arabic, Turkish and English — traveled to Raqqa, Syria, in 2016, the prosecutor’s workplace stated.
Fluke-Ekren skilled feminine ISIS members by way of a ladies’s heart and within the all-female battalion generally known as Khatiba Nusaybah, the prosecutor’s workplace stated.
Fluke-Ekren taught trainees use AK-47 rifles, grenades and suicide belts filled with explosives, the prosecutor’s workplace stated. Some battalion members had been additionally given specialised coaching in martial arts, medical help and driving techniques, the discharge stated.
Fluke-Ekren skilled greater than 100 ladies and ladies, some as younger as 10, in line with the discharge.
To keep away from seize by U.S. authorities, Fluke-Ekren advised an individual the prosecutor’s workplace recognized as a witness to ship a message informing a relative of her loss of life, the discharge stated.
A felony grievance detailing federal costs in opposition to Fluke-Ekren was filed in 2019. She was captured in Syria and brought into FBI custody this 12 months.
