It’s believed the women — mainly war widows — will use the fact they are female to slip under the radar before launching their bloody attacks.
It’s feared they could even bring their children on their merciless missions in an attempt to foil the security services.
Just days ago, it was reported that a teenager shot by cops was part of France’s first-ever all-female ISIS terror cell, which planned to attack the Gare du Nord train station in Paris.
The mother of two traveled to Syria from Kent to marry high-profile terror hacker Junaid Hussain with her 11-year-old son, Joe “JoJo” Dixon.
But when her husband was killed in a US drone strike, leaving her and Hussain’s other wife widowed, she began leading the female wing of the Anwar al-Awlaki battalion.
An ISIS defector confirmed her new position, saying: “ISIS respects her because she is the widow of Junaid, who was very important to the group.”
The battalion is made up of foreign fighters and designed to carry out terror attacks in the West.
Jones, who now goes by the name Umm Hussain al-Britani, trains soldiers in combat and strategies for “suicide missions against Western targets.”
The defector added: “Umm Hussain is also influential in her own right.
“She was the reason ISIS was able to recruit a lot of Western girls to Raqqa: It’s not easy to convince a Christian, rock girl to become an extremist.”
She is reported to receive a monthly salary of £520 ($685 US) as well as an occasional bonus of £226 ($298) for being a high-profile widow of a “shahid,” or martyr.
Counter-terrorism adviser Michael S. Smith told the Telegraph he was not surprised by her new role.
He said, “Earlier this year, Sally Jones implied to me (on social media) she may be training female terrorists for deployment to execute attacks in the West.
“It is unsurprising that the Islamic State may be grooming female terrorists.
“The deployment of female fighters and suicide bombers, notably women whose male family members died while waging jihad, became a common occurrence after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi organized the group now called the Islamic State.”
Last week, a British child assassin who featured in the latest ISIS propaganda video was reported to be Jones’ son.
The terror group released sickening footage this week that showed five children, including one blue-eyed boy named Abu Abdullah al-Britani, slaughtering a group of Kurdish prisoners.
More about:
