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ISIS bride Shamima Begum was an AK47-carrying enforcer paid £1,500-a-month to snitch on women not living under the group's strict Islamic rules, reports claim.

The Brit teen was said to be a member of the barbarous terror group's feared "morality police", who punished those that flouted ISIS laws on how to dress and behave.

Shamima Begum asked to return to the UK after giving birth to her baby
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Shamima Begum asked to return to the UK after giving birth to her babyCredit: ITV Press Handout
 Shamima Begum is pictured as a 15-year-old before she fled to Syria to join ISIS
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Shamima Begum is pictured as a 15-year-old before she fled to Syria to join ISISCredit: PA:Press Association

Begum, who fled her London home four years ago to join the group, was seen clutching a gun as she yelled at Syrian women in ISIS-stronghold Raqqa for wearing brightly-coloured shoes.

Activist Aghiad al-Kheder told : ";Members of our group from Raqqa knew her well.

"There were lots of young European women in the hisba [ISIS morality police]. Some of them were very harsh and the local population became very scared."

He claimed she earned between £500 and £1,500 a month for the role and is likely to have ordered the imprisonment and lashing of women in Syria.

The jihadi bride also stitched explosive vests on to suicide bombers, spy chiefs have claimed.

Begum was reportedly seen helping to sew the devices on so they could not be removed without detonation.

TERROR BRIDE

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 claims cast doubt on Begum's pleas she was only a housewife during her time with the murderous group in Syria as she continues to beg to be allowed back in the UK.

She has previously said she was not part of ISIS' brutal campaign, explaining: "I just stayed at home and looked after my kids. I didn’t do anything dangerous.

STRIPPED OF CITIZENSHIP

"I never made propaganda, I never encouraged people to come to Syria. They don’t have proof that I did anything dangerous."

Begum, now 19, fled Bethnal Green, East London, with two school pals when she was aged just 15 in 2015.

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.

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.

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.

SHAMIMA Begum, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase are thought to have crossed into Syria from Turkey to join Islamic State
ISIS bride Shamima Begum and her baby have fled their refugee camp in Syria
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ISIS bride Shamima Begum and her baby have fled their refugee camp in SyriaCredit: Enterprise News and Pictures
 London schoolgirl Shamima Begum on her way to join the Islamic State group in 2015
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London schoolgirl Shamima Begum on her way to join the Islamic State group in 2015
Brit Isis bride Shamima Begum faces up to a life outside the UK in first interview after losing third baby


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