Sally Al-Brithini, wife Shahida

As a punk musician Sally Jones left for IG from England and married a jihadist

The 49-year-old mother of two children from the county Kent Sally Jones in 2013 joined the Islamic State and lives in Racca. She receives a manual from the IG as the wife of Shahid - her husband was killed in 2015 after an air strike from an American drone. Now Racca is in the siege, and Jones dreams of returning home - but the Islamists do not let her out, and the Pentagon has long been submitted to the list of “destruction” for organizing terrorist attacks and recruitment in IG. Medusa tells how Sally Jones has gone from the punk musician to the widow of the jihadist.

Sally Jones is about 50 years old, she is from the county of Kent in the south of Great Britain. In the 1980s, she played the guitar and sang in the punk group of Krunch and almost all her adult life lived on benefits or worked as a seller of cosmetics, writes The Birmingham Mail. Jones has two children, the age and name of the elder are unknown; The youngest, Jonathan, was born in 2004. The woman soon broke up with Jonathan's father, but he maintained a relationship with his son.

In his native Chathema, Jones had not the best reputation: as the local newspaper Kent Online writes , she was a “nightmare” woman who often screamed at people and was considered a witch in the district.

After 2010, Jones met Junaid Hussein - a young Muslim from Birmingham for more than 20 years younger than her. They have a relationship, and Jones gradually accepted not only the faith of her friend, but also the radical directions of Islam, which he adhered to.

In 2013, the couple left for Syria and joined the Islamic State; Jones became the Muslim wife of Hussein and took the name of Al-Britan typical of Islamists from England. She took her youngest son with her. As it became known later, Jones’s husband entered the so -called “Legion” - a separate grouping inside the IG, who was working on the recruitment of supporters on the Internet and organizing terrorist attacks. The FBI managed to prevent three terrorist attacks that were prepared in the United States by IS supporters recruited by Hussein - and in all three cases it was he who persuaded them for crimes.

Sally Jones was engaged in about the same as her husband: she published calls for jihad on social networks, searched for girls who were ready to leave for Syria on the Internet and become the wives of the Islamists, and also planned terrorist attacks with her husband. That is why the Pentagon brought it to the list “for liquidation” with her husband.

Junaida Hussein was killed in 2015, he was tracked by an American drone. Hussein and Jones walked almost everywhere with the young son of the British - this guaranteed protection against missile strikes. The jihadist was killed when he was alone.

After the death of her husband, Sally Jones received benefits as the wife of Shahid and was very proud of her status. She promised to continue the case of Hussein. She attracted her son to jihad. In 2016, a video appeared in which Jonathan participates in the demonstration execution of the prisoners of the Islamists. The father of the child recognized him on the video; He said that before leaving for Syria, the boy was happy, caring and sensitive.

Sally willingly posed with weapons and was a kind of advertising image of the “Islamic state”. In one of the photos, she was aiming from a pistol in a camera in a costume of a Catholic nun.

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In recent weeks, the troops of the democratic forces of Syria have strengthened the onslaught on Rakka, where the Islamic State is based. In early July, the troops entered the city from the north and actually took it to the blockade - since even earlier the coalition planes destroyed two bridges through the Euphrates in the south of Rakka and cut off the militants to escape. It was difficult for civilians to get out of the city even before the blockade - Islamists forbade local residents to leave the city before the threat of death.

Thus, for several years, Racca was almost completely cut off from the world; Almost nothing is known about what is happening in the city. However, Sky News managed to get a certificate of what is happening to Sally Jones. Syrian resident Aisha, also the wife of a fighter of IG, escaped from Rakka to the Kurdish camp and told the Sky correspondent that Jones knew. According to Aisha (the name was changed for security reasons), Sally, which she calls an influential and pretty woman, “cries and wants to return to the UK,” but the militants do not let her go.

Pavel Borisov