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WORLD'S MOST WANTED

How Brit ISIS fanatic Sally Jones went from a punk-rock loving single mum in Kent to masterminding attacks on the West from her terror lair in Syria

The jihadi bride is top of the CIA's assassination list after her bloodthirsty rise through the ranks of ISIS

SALLY Jones once flogged L'Oreal perfume whilst living off benefits in her Kent flat.

Today, she finds herself top of the CIA's assassination list after her bloodthirsty rise through the ranks of ISIS.

 Sally Jones married a Brit jihadi and has since become a target for US officials
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 Sally Jones married a Brit jihadi and has since become a target for US officialsCredit: Tim Stewart
 It marks a bizarre transformation from Kent punk rocker to ISIS jihadi
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It marks a bizarre transformation from Kent punk rocker to ISIS jihadi
 She fled to join Brit Junaid Hussain who became her husband and who headed up ISIS's cyber warfare squad
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She fled to join Brit Junaid Hussain who became her husband and who headed up ISIS's cyber warfare squadCredit: NEWS LIMITED

Along the way she earned herself a reputation for callous brutality as she masterminded several bloody attacks on three different continents.

But how did a 49-year-old British housewife rise to become a commander of the world's most-feared terror group?

Jones today would not answer to her birth name, instead going by her jihadi moniker Sakinah Hussain.

She had taken the nom de guerre from the computer of her state-paid Chatham flat.

From there, Jones spent her time discussing bizarre conspiracy theories online - from black magic to witchcraft.

The online pitter patter eventually led her to meet and form an online dalliance with jihadi computer hacker Junaid Hussain.

Hussain, a Brit of Pakistani heritage, was part of a jihadi hacking group called TeaMpOisoN thought to have leaked the names of hundreds of American military personnel.

 She has posted pictures online posing with an AK-47
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She has posted pictures online posing with an AK-47
 She built a bizarre online presence where she superimposed her face on to the body of a gun-wielding nun
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She built a bizarre online presence where she superimposed her face on to the body of a gun-wielding nunCredit: Tim Stewart
 She has posted pictures of herself covered in a niqab while in Syria on social media
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She has posted pictures of herself covered in a niqab while in Syria on social media

Yet despite the bizarre circumstances their romance developed to such an extent that former punk rocker Jones snuck into Syria in 2013 to join 20-year-old Hussain.

Together they became known as "Mr and Mrs Terror".

Perhaps most sickeningly, she also took young son Jojo, thought to be 12, who she slapped with the name Hamza.

Her 19-year-old second son stayed behind in the UK.

Jones's bloodythirsty time in the de facto ISIS capital of Raqqa was only stunted by the assassination of Hussain in 2015.

He was blown up by an American drone on one of the few occasions he travelled without Jojo as a human shield.

 Jones fled to join ISIS in 2013, taking her young boy Jojo with her
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Jones fled to join ISIS in 2013, taking her young boy Jojo with herCredit: Tim Stewart
 Pictures have emerged of her posing with her young son before she left for Syria
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Pictures have emerged of her posing with her young son before she left for Syria
 Hussain, who was British of Pakistani heritage, was killed in a 2015 drone strike
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Hussain, who was British of Pakistani heritage, was killed in a 2015 drone strikeCredit: Central News

Now the young boy is an ever-present at the side of his mother - who remains confident the Americans or RAF will not risk taking flak for knowingly killing a child in their effort to get her.

In a fiery riposte to the strikes she wrote: "Jones also wrote: "U can't just sit there with ur tea & scones ordering RAF drone strikes on UK brothers with no comeback from the Islamic state."

Yet the reasons for her rise to the top of the CIA's hitlist are compelling.

how Langley now considers her a "high priority" hit as details emerge of Jones's extensive ISIS recruitment work.

She is believed to have enticed scores of would-be European jihadis to join the self-declared caliphate through her influential recruitment network called the "Raqqa 12".

 There, she is thought to have forced the young lad to take part in a sickening execution of ISIS prisoners
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There, she is thought to have forced the young lad to take part in a sickening execution of ISIS prisonersCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

It targets vulnerable young Muslim men in Europe and is thought to have successfully recruited scores of wannabe jihadis to Syria.

Her and Hussain are thought to have been behind at least a dozen murderous attacks both in the Middle East and abroad.

One foiled plot is alleged to have seen her consider the opportunity to kill the Queen during 2015's VJ Day celebrations in London.

Separately, she published more than 1,300 names of US personnel - many of whom were serving at UK air bases - that her husband had hacked.

 Pictures taken before she fled for Syria show her with the youngster
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Pictures taken before she fled for Syria show her with the youngsterCredit: Tim Stewart

All the while she appeared in haunting videos, waving a Kalashnikov as she led a group of women in chanting slogans in Arabic.

And in her most unforgivable crime, she allowed her young son to take part in the brutal execution of Kurdish fighters.

The British youngster stood alongside several other boys, forced to unload bullets from a revolver into the back of their victims' head at point-blank range.

Jones hopes that while Jojo remains young and by her side, she will be immune from the drones hunting her down.


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