Wanted Daesh terrorist ‘White Widow’ still alive

Nahla Abdelmonem

News reports have claimed that British jihadist Sally Jones, known as “White Widow”, is still alive.

Jones was considered one of Britain’s most notorious terrorists.               She is thought to have been killed in a drone strike on a Daesh stronghold in Raqqa, Syria.

The British jihadi was claimed to still be alive and fighting, according to a captured terrorist, Birmingham Live reported.

Canadian Daesh terrorist, Muhammed Ali, who uses the alias Abu Turab, told Amarnath Amarasingam, a research fellow at the University of Waterloo in Canada, that Jones was hiding out in the country’s north-east.

He said the White Widow was captured by Kurds in Syria insisted she escaped the attack.

Jones was considered a top priority threat by Western intelligence because of her role in planning attacks and recruiting jihadists.

Turab claimed she was still alive and probably in final Daesh holdouts.

This, however, was not the first time that former punk musician Jones was claimed to be alive.

Moreover, a Mirror news report said her son, Jojo Dixon, is still alive after he was believed to had died alongside his mother, who was allegedly killed close to the border between Syria and Iraq in June.

Former punk rocker Jones converted to Islam and moved from Kent to Syria with her young son, who was featured in some Daesh promotional videos, in 2013 to be with husband, Birmingham-born Junaid Hussain.

Hussain, the leader of the Islamic State’s “digi-jihad” hacking brigade, was killed in a drone strike in 2015.

Jones became known as the “White Widow” following his death and led a violent all-female Daesh brigade, becoming one of the most wanted women in the world.