She gets the maximum sentence. Allison Fluke-Ekren, a 42-year-old American citizen, was sentenced on Tuesday November 1 to 20 years in prison by the United States justice system. This is the most severe judgment that can be pronounced for “material support for a terrorist enterprise” in this country.
The one who was one of the few leaders of a female battalion of the Islamic State (IS) group, pleaded guilty in June and was eventually sentenced by a federal court in Alexandria, near Washington (east coast of the United States). “I deeply regret my choices”assured this mother, asking “sorry to all those who suffered from (his) acts”. “I never fought myself”, “I did not fire a single bullet”, she insisted.
The one who called herself “Oum Mohammad al-Amiriki” was “became an empress of ISIS”, retorted the prosecutor Raj Parekh. She has “brainwashed young girls she taught to kill”, he added. Between 2012 and 2019, Allison Fluke-Ekren supported various jihadist organizations in Libya, Iraq and Syria, where she provided military training to more than 100 women. She also admitted to having taught her disciples, some of whom were only 10 or 11 years old, to handle assault rifles or explosive belts.
His own children have suffered greatly from his radical drift. One of his daughters, Leyla, was thus forced to“marry” an IS fighter when she was just 13 years old. “She abandoned me in Raqqa with my rapist”, added the young woman, present at the bar.
After having fomented several attack projects from Libya with one of her husband, a jihadist killed in 2015, Allison Fluke-Ekren was active in the defense of Raqqa, stronghold of the Islamic State until October 2017. Married several times to members of the IS, the American had tried to disappear after the fall of the city, in vain. Caught up by justice, she was extradited to the United States last January.