Allison Fluke-Ekren
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that a US woman has confessed to leading an all-female squadron for the so-called Islamic State group in Syria, as well as plotting attacks on American soil.
Allison Fluke-Ekren pleaded guilty to one count of providing support to the group and admitted to training over 100 women and girls for violence.
The mother and teacher-turned IS leader left the US in 2011, and worked with a terror group in Libya before Syria.
She faces a maximum of 20 years in prison at her sentencing in October.
Fluke-Ekren, 42, a former biology student and school teacher, travelled to Syria to join the group after living in Egypt and Turkey.
While with IS, she led Khatiba Nusaybah, an all-female battalion based in its de-facto capital of Raqqa, Syria.
Her primary role was to teach women and children to use weapons, ranging from AK-47 rifles and grenades to suicide vests, according to officials.
In a Virginia court on Tuesday, she admitted to training the all-female group, but claimed she had never attempted to recruit children.
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“We didn’t intentionally train any young girls,” she said, according to CNN. Some of the women she trained are expected to testify against her at her sentencing hearing.
Fluke-Ekren, who was known by the moniker Umm Mohammed al-Amriki, also lived in Mosul, Iraq, after it was captured by IS fighters.
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