- The teenager's husband died fighting in war-torn Kobane on Syrian border
- The Londoner proudly posted the picture of the youngster on Twitter
- ISIS supporters offer cash incentives to encourage schoolgirls to join them
- Use money wires to transfer cash for girls' payment and travel expenses
Published:
09:54 GMT, 21 December 2014
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Updated:
11:05 GMT, 21 December 2014
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The next
generation: A picture of a youngster posing with a toy gun in front of
an ISIS flag. It was tweeted by Londoner Umm Khattab, the teenaged widow
of an ISIS fighter
The
18-year-old British widow of an ISIS fighter killed fighting in Syria
has tweeted a picture of a young boy clutching a toy gun in front of the
black flag of the terror group.
The image was posted by Umm Khattab, believed to be from London, with the caption: 'Next generation, Bi'ithnillah (God willing).
Last
week it was reported that British Muslim extremists are offering
teenage girls in the UK money to marry Islamic State militants waging
bloody jihad in Syria and Iraq.
Supporters
of the terror group are believed to be offering cash incentives to
encourage schoolgirls as young as 17 to travel to the group's de facto
capital Raqqa and marry fighters.
Although
the boy, who appears to be aged about four, is not likely to be
Khatab's son, his mother could be Lewisham-born Khadijah Dare, 22, from
Lewisham in south London, who left Britain to join ISIS and is married
to Swedish terrorist Abu Bakr.
The pair are believed to live in Manjib, northern Syria, along with other British jihadi brides.
The
teenager also posted pictures of the food she receives, such as pizza
and chocolate cakes, because of her status as the widow of a 'shaheed',
or martyr. Her youth is evident in the three 'smiley' emoticons she
places at the end of the tweet.
Khattab,
whose husband died in the war-torn town of Kobane on the border of
Syria and Turkey, also tweeted a picture of foods from Kobane, including
a drink from Starbucks, reports The Sunday Times.
It
is understood that ISIS channels money for the would-be jihadis'
payment and travel expenses through international money wire systems,
enabling the group's UK cell to offer significant sums of cash to
disenfranchised teenagers, many of whom are from poverty-stricken
backgrounds.
The
whole grooming process operates using the same techniques of
trust-building and reward-offering employed by sexual predators, and is
designed to turn the teenage girls into jihadi brides.
News of ISIS' secret teenage terror trade was revealed in The Times, following a three month investigation by the newspaper in which reporters posed as two schoolgirls.
It
exposes how vulnerable young British Muslims are to ISIS' chilling
network or groomers - and reveals that police are taking seriously the
idea that the terror group has already provided money and travel
assistance to children under the age of 16.
Posing
as Aisha, a 17-year-old girl from East London, the reporters - who have
not been named for their own safety - were swamped with approaches from
ISIS sympathisers, and were eventually put in touch with an alleged
Syria-based extremist of Lebanese origin named Abu Abbas al-Lubnani.
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Creature comforts: The teenager enjoys special privileges thanks to her status as the widow of a martyr
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Umm Khattab's profile picture on Twitter, showing a woman posing with an AK-47 assault rifle. It is not known whether it is her
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Jihadi bride: Another Briton who left
Britain to join ISIS is Lewisham-born Khadijah Dare (left). Here she is
pictured alongside her Swedish terrorist husband Abu Bakr. Their
marriage was arranged by his mother
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Grooming: Islamic State supporters are
believed to be using British intermediaries to offer cash incentives to
encourage schoolgirls as young as 17 to travel to the group's de facto
capital Raqqa and marry fighters
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'Terror twins': Zahra (left) and Salma
(right) Halane, who have 28 GCSE's between them, were groomed online
and flew to join ISIS. The 16-year-olds ran away from their Manchester
home on 26 June
Having
built something of a rapport with the jihadi - including getting him to
prove his authenticity by asking him to send photos taken in Raqqa with
a banner reading 'Aisha' - al-Lubnani then offered to introduce 'Aisha'
to a British intermediary, who would then pay for her to travel to the
Islamic State.
A
surveillance operation followed, in which investigators identified a
white British Muslim convert as the prime candidate for being the
UK-based jihadi who offered to pay for two girls to travel to Syria.
The
man reportedly also offered intensive coaching on how the girls could
avoid drawing attention to themselves before and during their journey to
the Middle East.
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Terror:
Aqsa Mahmood was reported missing by her Scottish parents a year ago
before surfacing in Syria in February. She is now a prominent member of
ISIS' all-female police force in de facto capital Raqqa
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Shocking: Earlier this year Aqsa
Mahmood posted this photograph of her holding the severed head of a
Syrian man executed for criminal acts in Syria. She was standing
alongside young children at the time
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Yusra Hussien, 15, from Bristol, left
home in September but instead of going to class went to Heathrow where
she caught a flight to Turkey and went on to Syria
Police
in Britain have been urging families to contact them if they believe
their loved-ones are trying to leave for Syria so they can be stopped.
Detectives
say young women are being manipulated online with glamorous
descriptions of life in Syria with ISIS, only to suffer a miserable
existence when they arrive.
Yusra
Hussien, 15, from Bristol, left home in September but instead of going
to class went to Heathrow where she caught a flight to Turkey.
She
boarded a plane with a 17-year-old British girl Samya Dirie, who she
met online and the two are now believed to be in Syria, and may have
married jihadist fighters.
Police failed to stop schoolgirl Miss Dirie despite being told she had run away with her passport.
Three hours after her panicked parents alerted officers that she was missing, she was allowed to fly from Heathrow to Turkey.
Her exit may have prompted the urgent response in the latest Heathrow case.
In
June 'terror twins' Zahra and Salma Halane, both 16, of Chorlton,
Manchester, are thought to have married in the war-torn nation since
disappearing overnight from their home.
Both have insisted that Allah had 'chosen' for them to be in Syria.
The
pair have 28 GCSEs between them and were planning to become doctors,
having just finished their first year of sixth-form college, but were
said to have been radicalised over the internet.
Their
father Ibrahim and mother Khadra travelled to the region to try to
bring them home, but without success. The couple have 10 children and
their 21-year-old son Ahmed is said to be fighting with Al Shabaab, a
militant group in Somalia.
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Bodies of Islamic State militants killed during fighting in Koban, Iraq were photographed this morning
Details
of the investigation came after it was revealed that police stopped a
plane at Heathrow just seconds before it was due to take off because a
15-year-old girl on board was planning to fly to Turkey before
continuing her journey on to join ISIS militants in Syria.
The
young girl had secretly saved up to buy a ticket from London to
Istanbul and planned to continue her journey through Turkey and over the
border into Syria. It appears it was treated as a missing person's
inquiry and she was not arrested.
Her
family, who had no idea she harboured extremist views, reported her
missing and Scotland Yard tracked her down to a passenger jet about to
leave Britain.
After
rushing to Heathrow, officers realised the girl's plane was already
taxiing along the runway, so the pilot was ordered to stop and the girl
taken home.
It
later emerged that a second British 15-year-old girl was not spotted on
board and was able to continue her journey to join the Islamic State in
Syria.
ONE OF THE TEENAGE AUSTRIAN ‘POSTER GIRLS’ WHO RAN AWAY TO JOIN ISIS HAS BEEN KILLED IN THE CONFLICT, UN SAYS
A
United Nations official says one of the two Austrian girls who fled
their middle class homes in Vienna earlier this year to fight in Syria
has definitely died in the conflict.
The
two Viennese girls, Samra Kesinovic, 17, and 15-year-old Sabina
Selimovic, whose parents are Bosnian refugees, disappeared in April
after saying that they wanted to fight in Syria.
They
first went to the Turkish capital Ankara by plane, and then on into the
southern Turkish region of Adana. After that, their tracks were lost.
But
they appeared on social networking sites branding Kalashnikov rifles
and surrounded by armed men - photos which Austrian police said acted as
recruitment posters for young girls.
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The teens appeared on social networking sites branding Kalashnikov rifles and surrounded by armed men
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The two Viennese girls, Samra
Kesinovic (left), 16, and 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic (right), whose
parents are Bosnian refugees, disappeared in April after saying that
they wanted to fight in Syria
David
Scharia, a senior Israeli expert of the United Nations Security
Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTED) said: 'We received
information just recently about two 15-year-old girls, of Bosnian
origin, who left Austria, where they had been living in recent years;
and everyone, the families and the intelligence services of the two
countries, is looking for them.
He added: 'Both were recruited by Islamic State. One was killed in the fighting in Syria, the other has disappeared.'
His
confirmation comes three months after the Austrian government said it
had informed both sets of parents of the girls that one of them might
have been killed.
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