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Washington, Jan 30 : The US Department of Justice has charged an American women for leading an all women ISIS battalion in Syria and also conspiring to provide material support to the organisation. According to an official statement by the department on Saturday, a criminal complaint filed in 2019 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is now unsealed, alleged that Allison Fluke-Ekren organised and led an all-female military battalion on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS. She was previously apprehended in Syria.
As per the criminal complaint, Allison Elizabeth Fluke-Ekren, aka “Allison Elizabeth Brooks,” aka “Allison Ekren,” aka “Umm Mohammed al-Amriki,” aka “Umm Mohammed,” and aka “Umm Jabril,” 42, a former resident of Kansas, traveled to Syria several years ago for the purpose of committing or supporting terrorism. She had allegedly been involved with a number of terrorism-related activities on behalf of ISIS from at least 2014. These activities allegedly include, but are not limited to, planning and recruiting operatives for a potential future attack on a college campus inside the US and serving as the appointed leader and organiser of an ISIS military battalion, known as the Khatiba Nusaybah, in order to train women on the use of automatic firing AK-47 assault rifles, grenades and suicide belts, the department said. “Fluke-Ekren allegedly provided ISIS and ISIS members with services, which included providing lodging, translating speeches made by ISIS leaders, training children on the use of AK-47 assault rifles and suicide belts and teaching extremist ISIS doctrine,” it added.
