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Senior female Isis figure who helped recruit women from Europe to Syria is revealed as student from Seattle
May 3, 2015 at 12:49 pm
Cross-posted from The Independent
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A senior female Isis figure who reportedly helped recruit women to join the extremist group in areas under its self-declared caliphate has been exposed as a student from Seattle, who may have been living in the city up until March this year.
The person behind the influential @_UmmWaqqas Twitter account has been revealed by Channel 4 as a woman in her 20s who lived and studied in the US.
Her Twitter account had a following of over 8,000 before it was suspended and shows that British recruits, such as Aqsa Mahmood, and other women from Europe were in contact with her in the days running up their departure. Mahmood goes by the name of 'Umm Layth' online and tweets from the @_UmmWaqqas account included: "Legit I talk to @ummlayth everyday" and "Umm Layth has more BALLS than most men & more heart/iman to have left her home for Allah's sake."
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