Kansas Woman Pleads Guilty to Training All-Female ISIS Battalion

A Kansas native admitted to organizing an all-female militia on behalf of ISIS in an Alexandria, Virginia, court on Tuesday.

Allison Fluke-Ekren pleaded guilty before a U.S. district court in Virginia for providing “material support to a foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic state of Iraq and al-Sham,” according to court documents.

Going by the alias Umm Mohammed al-Amriki, Fluke-Ekren organized and led a battalion of female ISIS members married to ISIS fighters in Syria, a criminal complaint filed against Fluke-Ekren in 2019 said. Fluke-Ekren also trained 100 women and girls, some as young as 10 years old, to fight, according to a Department of Justice press release.

Members of the battalion learned how to use AK-47 assault rifles, grenades and suicide belts, according to the DOJ.

Witnesses told investigators that Fluke-Ekren repeatedly discussed conducting deadly terrorist attacks against targets in the U.S., a criminal complaint filed against Fluke-Ekren in 2019 claimed. She regarded “any attack that did not kill a large number of people to be a waste of resources,” DOJ claimed.

One witness called Fluke-Ekren “off the charts” on a scale of radicalization, according to court documents.

Fluke-Ekren left her home in Kansas in 2008 with her husband, a member of the terrorist organization Ansar al-Sharif, and was herself associated with terrorist activity from at least 2014 to 2018, according to the DOJ…. (Excerpt from The Daily Caller and The Virginia Star)