A former US schoolteacher who became a high-ranking Islamic State official and organized an all-female IS military battalion pleaded guilty Tuesday to supporting a foreign terrorist group, the Justice Department said. Told.
Allison Fluke-Akren, 42, admitted to being involved in “terrorism-related activities” in Syria, Libya and Iraq between 2011 and 2019, the department said in a statement.
The department said, “Fluk-Akren eventually served as the leader and organizer of an ISIS military battalion known as Khatiba Nusayba, where she trained women with automatic firing AK-47 rifles, grenades and suicide belts.” trained on use.”
“More than 100 women and young girls, including girls between the ages of 10 or 11, received military training on behalf of ISIS from Fluk-Akren in Syria,” he said, citing Islamic State.
The department said she lived in Egypt and then Libya with her late husband, who was a member of the extremist Ansar al-Sharia group.
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It said the two took documents after the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi and summarized them for Ansar al-Sharia.
She then went to Turkey and Syria, where her husband became the leader of a sniper group of Islamic State.
While in Syria, the department said, he expressed a desire to bomb a shopping mall or a university campus in the United States.
In 2016-17, she became the leader of the all-female Khatiba Nusayba Battalion, which underwent physical, medical and weapons training to support Islamic State.
Fluke-Akren was arrested in Syria shortly after the extremist group’s regional defeat in early 2019 by US-led coalition forces.
He was deported to the United States from an undisclosed location on January 28 and charged with supporting a foreign terrorist organization, a charge that carries up to 20 years in prison.
However, she never went on trial. Court records indicate that her lawyers and the Justice Department spent the past months negotiating her guilty plea on the same count.
He will be sentenced on October 25.