Jihadist Sally Jones from Chatham caught encouraging Brits to carry out terrorist attacks on home soil
Published: 13:00, 11 August 2015
Updated: 13:28, 11 August 2015
A woman who left Chatham to join Islamic State in Syria has been caught encouraging Brits to carry out terrorist attacks on home soil.
Sally Jones, 45, was from Harebell Close and converted to Islam. She married Junaid Hussain, 21, a convicted computer hacker and Isis fighter from Birmingham and became militant herself.
Over recent weeks two Sky freelance journalists created fictional characters to infiltrate the recruitment arm of the IS.
They pretended to be interested in helping the cause with terror attacks, expecting to be sent out to Syria. Instead they found IS are now focusing on urging British would-be recruits to carry out ‘lone wolf’ attacks in the UK.
It is a new move for the terror organisation and one of those talking to the undercover journalists was Jones.
Last year KentOnline reported on her public pro-Isis statements on Twitter – including one in which she threatened to behead Christians.
According to Sky News, Jones asked one of the undercover reporters what she wanted to do in the UK - to cut a head off or blow up a bomb.
She assured the female reporter that she would guide her through the making of the bomb and revealed that she had another potential bomber in Scotland and two others who had so far failed to attack.
Jones also said that this Saturday’s VJ commemorations involving the Queen and the Royal Family were a target, and in her last correspondence this week she simply said: “do it”.
Jones said she became militant in response to British and American forces’ killing of Muslims and travelled to the Middle East at the end of 2013. Her husband Hissain runs the IS information and recruitment arm from Syria.
He has been identified by the US Secret Service as a top-five target for elimination by drone strike.
The Metropolitan Police’s anti-terror branch were informed of one or even three potential bombers at large.
Jones was member of an all-girl punk rock band in the 1990s and former neighbours in Chatham spoke of her chaotic lifestyle, describing her as a “nightmare” who was always screaming and shouting and had previously believed she was a witch.
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