According to the British "Times" website reported on October 12, according to recent news, Sally Jones, one of the world's most wanted female terrorists, has been killed by a US drone attack in Syria.
U.S. intelligence officials told British intelligence officials that in June, Sally Jones was killed in an attack near the Syrian-Iraqi border. Jones, a former British punk rock singer, became one of the leaders of the recruitment campaign for the extremist group Islamic State after her conversion to Islam. Her 12-year-old son, Jojo, may also have been killed in the attack.
British government sources told The Times: "The presumption that Sally Jones and her son are dead could be accurate." ”
Sally Jones, 50, a mother of two, died in a drone strike, as was the fate of her husband Junid Hussein.
Hussein is also a senior member of the extremist group and was a former British computer hacker. In August 2015, Hussein, 21, was killed by a drone strike at Raqqa, a former Islamic State stronghold. British intelligence helped the U.S. military pinpoint Hussein's whereabouts.
British intelligence is believed to have been tracking Jones' whereabouts. In 2013, Jones took Jojo to Syria to marry Hussein.
Jones and Hussein are important targets on the U.S. "assassination list." After Jones's death, at least six known British Islamic State terrorists have been killed in a drone attack in Syria. The actual number of terrorists killed may be higher, as it is often difficult to confirm the identity of terrorists killed in air strikes.
According to the Sun, Jones died in an attack by a U.S. Air Force Predator drone. Jones has been known as "White Widow" and "Punk Rock Jihadist". She used the pseudonym Um Hussein Britani.
Jones has been seeking to flee Raqqa as the United States, Britain and other members of the International Coalition against Extremist Groups ramp up airstrikes against extremist groups in Iraq and Syria, and U.S.-backed ground forces intensify their offensives.
According to the Sun, quoted by a British government source, "The U.S. military shot raqqa when she tried to escape Raqqa. ”
It's unclear whether Jones was killed in a building or in a moving car. Fearing that Jones' son had also been killed, the U.S. military never released the news of her death. The drone on the airstrike mission took off from a base inside the United States and is believed to have opened fire if the drone operator had known that Jones' son was also present.
According to sources, it was very difficult to "100 percent confirm" that Jones and Jojo were dead. The U.S. military did not attempt to collect any DNA samples.
According to The Sun, the U.S. side "believes" Jones is dead.
Drones often track targets for weeks to wait for an opportunity that doesn't hurt innocent people. It is believed that after Hussein's death, Jones used Jojo as a human shield. It is said that the last time Jones was seen before his death was on his way to the Syrian border town of Mayadin. Hussein and Jones, nicknamed "The Horror Couple," have been implicated in more than a dozen terrorist attempts.
During his 4 years in the Middle East, Jones became even more notorious. She recruited young women who had traveled to Syria to become brides of jihadists and threatened to launch attacks on Britain on social media. Hussein has also recruited a large number of new recruits for extremist groups and led a team of hackers.
Jones even put Jojo on camera in a bloody promotional video. In the video, Jojo and a group of teenagers shoot a hostage to death. (Compilation/Liu Baiyun)
Infographic: Sally Jones. (Screenshot of the Website of the British "Daily Express")