{"id":51203,"date":"2022-11-01T19:41:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=51203"},"modified":"2022-11-01T19:43:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:43:45","slug":"kansas-woman-who-led-all-female-battalion-in-syria-sentenced-to-20-years-in-federal-prison-she-discussed-detonating-a-car-bomb-on-u-s-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=51203","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Woman Who Led All-Female Battalion in Syria Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison; She Discussed Detonating a Car Bomb at U.S. Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>WASHINGTON D.C.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"node-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51164 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/qtq80-bKiHX2-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/qtq80-bKiHX2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/qtq80-bKiHX2-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/qtq80-bKiHX2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/qtq80-bKiHX2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/qtq80-bKiHX2-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>According to officials, a U.S. citizen was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday in federal court in Virginia for organizing and leading an all-female military battalion in Syria on behalf of ISIS, a foreign terrorist organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Allison Fluke-Ekren, aka Allison Ekren, aka Umm Mohammed al-Amriki, and aka Umm Mohammed, 42, a former resident of Kansas, traveled overseas, court documents indicate.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"USATODAY-Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/embed\/video\/6652598001?placement=snow-embed\" width=\"540\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">From September 2011 through May 2019, she engaged in terrorist acts in multiple countries, including Syria, Libya, and Iraq. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fluke-Ekren ultimately served as the leader and organizer of an ISIS military battalion known as the Khatiba Nusaybah, where she trained women on the use of automatic firing AK-47 assault rifles, grenades and suicide belts. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51205\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51205 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/download-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allison Fluke-Ekren, aka Allison Ekren, aka Umm Mohammed al-Amriki, and aka Umm Mohammed, 42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Over 100 women and young girls, some as young as 10, received military training from Fluke-Ekren in Syria on behalf of ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">During the sentencing hearing, the judge incorporated into the record two separate letters submitted by Fluke-Ekren\u2019s adult daughter and adult son, both of whom wrote about being abused by Fluke-Ekren, beginning in Kansas and continuing overseas when they were minors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1537 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LADYJUSTICE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"240\" \/>Beyond the prison term, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema sentenced Fluke-Ekren to 25 years of probation, according to USA Today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Her lawyers had urged Brinkema to order an unspecified shorter sentence because of the trauma and loss she experienced. Three of her husbands and two children died overseas. She suffered post-traumatic stress syndrome in Syria and abandoned violence when she quit the terror group in May 2019, her lawyers said, USA Today reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The government also played audio recordings of January 2021 phone conversations between Fluke-Ekren and her daughter, where she instructed her to delete messages shared between them to ensure Fluke-Ekren could continue to evade capture in Syria and encouraged her daughter to leave the United States and return to Syria, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-265x168.jpg 265w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-284x180.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-274x173.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>Additionally, Fluke-Ekren\u2019s adult daughter delivered a victim impact statement in court Tuesday describing the severe abuse that Fluke-Ekren inflicted upon her in Syria, including coercing her to marry an ISIS fighter, who then raped her when she was only 13 years old. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fluke-Ekren\u2019s adult son also delivered a statement in court describing attempts by Fluke-Ekren to convince him to leave the U.S. and travel to Syria to prevent him from approaching authorities with any information that could compromise her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14486 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ISIS-Flag-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ISIS-Flag-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ISIS-Flag-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ISIS-Flag-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ISIS-Flag-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ISIS-Flag.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In or around 2008, Fluke-Ekren departed the United States and moved to Egypt with her second husband, a now-deceased former member of the terrorist organization Ansar al-Sharia. Fluke-Ekren resided in Egypt until in or around 2011, at which point she moved to Libya. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Near the end of 2011, Fluke-Ekren resided with her second husband, among others, in Benghazi, Libya. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Fluke-Ekren\u2019s second husband claimed that he removed at least one box of documents and at least one electronic device from the U.S. compound in Benghazi. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">According to the evidence, he brought the items to the residence where he resided with Fluke-Ekren and others at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41105 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cropped-judge-gavel-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cropped-judge-gavel-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cropped-judge-gavel-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cropped-judge-gavel-2.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Fluke-Ekren assisted her second husband with reviewing and summarizing the contents of the stolen U.S. government documents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The stolen documents and electronic devices, along with the summaries that Fluke-Ekren helped prepare, were provided to the leadership of Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In or around late 2012, Fluke-Ekren, her second husband and others traveled from Libya to Turkey. Shortly thereafter, they traveled from Turkey to Syria. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">About six weeks later, Fluke-Ekren returned to Turkey while her second husband remained in Syria. Fluke-Ekren\u2019s second husband ascended through the ranks of ISIS and ultimately became the \u201cemir\u201d (leader) of ISIS snipers in Syria. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In or around mid-2014, Fluke-Ekren and others were smuggled back into Syria. While residing in Syria, Fluke-Ekren told a witness about her desire to attack the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">To conduct the attack, Fluke-Ekren explained that she could go to a shopping mall in the United States, park a vehicle full of explosives in the basement or parking garage level of the structure, and detonate the explosives in the vehicle with a cell phone triggering device. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fluke-Ekren also spoke about learning how to make bombs and explosives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fluke-Ekren further said that any attack that did not kill many individuals was a waste of resources. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fluke-Ekren would hear about external attacks in countries outside the United States and would comment that she wished the attack had occurred on United States soil instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In 2014, ISIS officials sent a female member of ISIS, who traveled from Central America to Ablah, Syria, where she resided in an adjoining residence to Fluke-Ekren for approximately 18 days. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">This witness visited Fluke-Ekren at her residence in Syria on multiple occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"> During those visits, Fluke-Ekren discussed ideas for an attack involving the use of explosives on the campus of a U.S.-based college in the Midwest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In or around 2015, Fluke-Ekren, her second husband and others moved from Syria to Mosul, Iraq, where they temporarily resided inside an ISIS-controlled compound within the University of Mosul, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">When Fluke-Ekren arrived in Mosul, she met with ISIS personnel who were in charge of homes for widowed women whose husbands died while fighting for ISIS. Fluke-Ekren assisted the ISIS personnel by providing ideas for how the homes should function and operate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In or around mid-2016, Fluke-Ekren led and organized an effort to establish a Women\u2019s Center in Raqqa, Syria. Fluke-Ekren obtained authorization from the \u201cWali,\u201d the ISIS-appointed mayor of Raqqa, in order to establish the Center. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">There, Fluke-Ekren and others provided medical services, educational services about the Islamic State, childcare, and various training to women and young girls. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">As the Center\u2019s leader, Fluke-Ekren also provided and assisted other female ISIS members in training numerous women and young girls on the use of automatic firing AK-47 assault rifles, grenades, and explosive suicide belts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In or around late 2016, the ISIS \u201cWali\u201d of Raqqa approved the creation of the \u201cKhatiba Nusaybah\u201d \u2013 a military battalion to be comprised solely of female ISIS members. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The Khatiba Nusaybah began operations on behalf of the terrorist organization in or around February 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fluke-Ekren\u2019s main objective as the leader and organizer of the Khatiba Nusaybah battalion was to teach female ISIS members how to defend themselves against ISIS\u2019s enemies, including helping male fighters defend ISIS-controlled Raqqa. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fluke-Ekren sought to motivate her trainees by explaining how female fighters can ensure the Islamic State is kept alive by \u201chelping ISIS expand and to remain\u201d through the use of weapons, including automatic firing AK-47 assault rifles, grenades and suicide belts packed with explosives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In addition, witnesses with first-hand knowledge stated that the Khatiba Nusaybah also provided certain members with instruction on physical training, \u00adincluding martial arts, medical training, VBIED driving courses, ISIS religious classes, and how to pack and prep a \u201cgo bag\u201d with rifles and other military supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In 2018, Fluke-Ekren informed another witness that she had instructed an individual in Syria to send a message to one of her family members stating that Fluke-Ekren was dead so that the U.S. government would not attempt to locate her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fluke-Ekren informed this same witness that it was important to kill the \u201ckuffar\u201d (disbelievers) and die as martyrs on behalf of ISIS in Syria. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Fluke-Ekren was located outside the United States on or about Jan. 8, 2011, until she was transferred in custody to Virginia on Jan. 28, 2022.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">First Assistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh and Assistant U.S. Attorney John Gibbs for the Eastern District of Virginia prosecuted the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON D.C. 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