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Shamima Begum: Brit ISIS bride ‘stitched explosive vests onto suicide bombers during time in Syria’, spy chiefs believe
ISIS bride Shamima Begum stitched explosive vests onto suicide bombers, spy chiefs have claimed.
The Brit teen was reportedly seen helping to sew the devices onto the would-be bombers so they could not be removed without detonation.
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Prime Minister Theresa May and Home Secretary Sajid Javid have both been passed on the intelligence, the Mail on Sunday reported.
A senior intelligence source told the paper: "She was involved and her former comrades have grassed her. She was literally stitching the vests, stitching them into the vests."
The teen spent three years with the terror cell after fleeing the UK aged just 15 - previously claiming she had been "just a housewife" during her time with the murderous cult.
She only resurfaced earlier this year - with the 19-year-old begging to return to give birth to her third child. The baby, Jarrah, has since passed away.
Despite her pleas to come home, the Home Office revoked her citizenship.
She was literally stitching the vests, stitching them into the vests
Senior intelligence source
The claims are in direct opposition to her claims she played little role in ISIS' radical plots.
Shamima had previously said she was not part of ISIS' murderous plans, saying: "When I went to Syria, I was just a housewife.
"I just stayed at home and looked after my kids. I didn’t do anything dangerous.
"I never made propaganda, I never encouraged people to come to Syria. They don’t have proof that I did anything dangerous."
also today claimed the schoolgirl had served in ISIS' "morality police" - even trying to help recruit other young women.
She was reportedly allowed to carry a Kalashnikov rifle and allegedly became known for being a strict "enforcer" of rules including those on dress codes.
It was further claimed she graduated from the Khansaa Battalion, a notorious all-female “police squad”
NOT FAZED OVER SEVERED HEADS
Begum previously dismissed the atrocity at the 2017 Ariana Grande concert as “retaliation" for air raids on ISIS in Syria.
Speaking from a Syrian refugee camp, the teen said of the Manchester atrocity: “It’s a two-way thing because women and children are being killed back in the Islamic State right now.
“It’s kind of retaliation. Their justification was that it was retaliation so I thought, OK, that is a fair justification.”
She also revealed she wasn't "fazed" when she saw severed heads in bins during her time with the jihadis.
In her first interview after resurfacing, the teen had calmly brushed off the experience as part of her "normal" life with the fundamentalists.
She also said she didn't regret her decision to join the murderous cult.
Her – currently held in a Kurdish-run jail – earlier claimed he wanted to take her and his baby to the Netherlands.
CAN SHE RETURN?
On February 19, Home Secretary Javid stripped Shamima of her British citizenship.
The Home Office had claimed she has dual British-Bangladesh nationality due to her parents being from Bangladesh.
On March 20, 2019, her family formally started their legal challenge to reverse Sajid Javid's decision to strip the ISIS bride of her UK citizenship.
The family will argue the Home Secretary's decision was unfair because hundreds of other Brits who joined the terror group have been allowed to return.
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It comes as jihadi brides like the teenager could face up to ten years in jail if they return to the UK under laws that come into force today.
The Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 creates a criminal offence of entering or remaining in terror hot-spots overseas.
Dubbed “Shamima’s Law”, it was unveiled by ministers last year in a bid to boost powers to tackle the threat from foreign fighters.
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