The British 'Jihadettes' who rule ISIS' capital by fear: How 'up to 60' UK women boast of being in 'secret police' that orders executions, punishment lashings and run Yazidi sex slave brothels
Britons including privately-educated Glaswegian Aqsa
Mahmood, 20, (top right) and Lewisham-born Khadijah Dare, 22, (bottom
right) are understood to have joined the Al-Khansa Brigade in ISIS'
Syrian de facto capital Raqqa, helping to patrol the city with guns and
daggers hidden beneath their religious robes. The group, which is
largely made-up of educated Western women, operates as an
ultra-oppressive police force monitoring the behaviour of females in
Raqqa - doling out brutal punishments to anyone wearing shoes that
aren't black, or those wearing veils made from the wrong material. They
also run brothels of Yazidi sex slaves wh
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Revealed: How 'up to 60' women rule ISIS's capital by fear. Merciless 'Jihadettes' order executions, punishment lashings, and manage sex slave brothels
- British women boast of heading up ISIS' secret police called the Al-Khansa Brigade in the terror group's Syrian 'capital' of Raqqa
- They order executions, beatings, punishment beatings and manage brothels where Yazidi sex slaves are raped daily
- Feared because they can spy freely hidden under all-black niqab dresses
- They patrol city with guns and daggers hidden under religious robes, beating any women whose veil is made of the wrong material
- Brigade includes Aqsa Mahmood, 20, who ran off from Glasgow a year ago
- Leader is believed to be a six foot tall woman named Umm Hamza, dubbed 'The Slaughterer', who carries cattle-prod under niqab
Dozens
of young British women are using social media to boast of joining the
Islamic State's terrifying all-female police force – claiming to be
doling out savage beatings, punishment lashings, ordering executions and
managing brothels where thousands of Yazidi sex slaves are imprisoned
and raped daily after being sold for as little as £27.
Britons
including privately-educated Glaswegian Aqsa Mahmood, 20, and
Lewisham-born Khadijah Dare, 22, are understood to have joined the
Al-Khansa Brigade in ISIS' Syrian de facto capital Raqqa, helping to
patrol the city with guns and daggers hidden beneath their religious
robes.
The
group, which is largely made-up of educated Western women, operates as
an ultra-oppressive police force monitoring the behaviour of females in
Raqqa - meting out brutal punishments to anyone wearing shoes that
aren't black, or those wearing veils made from the wrong material.
Chilling: Chained Yazidi sex slaves
are paraded through the streets of the Islamic State's de facto capital
city Raqqa by Al-Khansa Brigade before being taken for sale at market
Police force: Dozens of Britons are
understood to have joined the Al-Khansa Brigade in ISIS' Syrian de facto
capital Raqqa, helping to patrol the city with guns and daggers hidden
beneath their religious robes
Sick: One woman notorious for the
references to the Al Khansa Brigade is British national Umm Farriss, who
also calls herself Umm Anwar. She recently mockingly described an
encounter with a Yazidi sex slave
Thanks
to the head-to-toe niqabs all women living in ISIS-held territory are
forced to wear, the Al-Khansa Brigade also acts as a Stasi-esque secret
police force - with members covertly spying on men suspected of
wrongdoing, before reporting them to ISIS' feared Hisbah religious
authority.
Although
the figures are impossible to independently verify, the Terrorism
Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC) believes as many as 60 British
nationals are currently members of Al-Khansa.
Chief
among them is 20-year-old Aqsa Mahmood - was reported missing by her
parents a year ago before surfacing in Syria in February as an outspoken
supporter of the terrorist group.
Adopting
the nom de guerre Umm Layth, which translates as 'mother of Layth',
Mahmood was studying diagnostic radiography at Glasgow Caledonian
University before leaving the West behind.
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Shortly
after marrying an ISIS fighter in Raqqa, she is understood to have
joined the city's Al-Khansa Brigade - helping to carry out the group's
shocking oppression of local citizens, particularly women.
Among
the rules she helps enforce are the strict requirement that all women
are accompanied by a male chaperone, and that they must wear
'acceptable' clothing when in public.
The
strict dress code requires all females to wear nothing by black,
including their shoes, and cover every inch of their body, including
wearing gloves to cover their hands and fingers.
'We
have established the brigade to raise awareness of our religion among
women, and to punish women who do not abide by the law,' Raqqa-based
ISIS official Abu Ahmad revealed in July.
'There
are only women in this brigade, and we have given them their own
facilities to prevent the mixture of men and women,' he added.
Terror:
Chief among the Britons suspected of being members of the Al-Khansa
Brigade is 20-year-old Aqsa Mahmood. She was reported missing by her
parents a year ago before surfacing in Syria in February
Everyday life: Adopting the nom de
guerre Umm Layth, which translates as 'mother of Layth', Mahmood's
former Twitter profile picture appeared to show members of the Al-Khansa
Brigade in Raqqa
Shocking: Earlier this year Aqsa
Mahmood posted this photograph of her holding the severed head of a
Syrian man executed for criminal acts in Syria. She was standing
alongside young children at the time
The
Al-Khansa Brigade takes its name from a 7th Century poet and
contemporary of the Prophet Mohammad whose four sons all died at
the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah. Literally translated from classical Arabic,
the name Al-Khansa reportedly means 'mother of many martyrs'.
Members
of the Al-Khansa Brigade are reportedly paid a monthly salary of £100
and, thanks to them wearing full niqabs covering every inch of skin,
operate quite literally under cover.
Not
being able to identify who is an ordinary citizen and who is a member
of the secret police force has made Al-Khansa one of the most effective
elements of ISIS campaign of brutal oppression inside its de facto
capital city Raqqa.
In
September Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi, a member of the city's anti-ISIS
activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, told VICE News: 'The
most difficult thing for us, is the Al-Khansa Brigade...I don't know
who's from Al-Khansa and who isn't. So when I get out my cell phone and I
am taking photos of the city I don't know if any of them are looking at
me or not.'
'If
you are taking photos and one of the women from Al-Khansa is looking at
you, they will catch you immediately, and you'll be executed
immediately. This is a big problem for us,' he added.
Abu
Ibrahim described how the majority of women in Al-Khansa are foreigners
'from the UK, from the U.S, Dutch, Chechen.' He added that even though
many of them can only speak a few words of Arabic, their reputation is
such that men and women alike fear their presence.
Another Briton believed to be involved
with the Al Khansa Brigade is Lewisham-born Khadijah Dare. Here she is
pictured alongside her Swedish terrorist husband Abu Bakr. Their
marriage was arranged by his mother
Grim: Two years ago, Dare (pictured
left alongside a female jihadi friend named Umm Haditha) left her
'comfortable life' in Britain, where she was known for her dimples and
her love of her mother's home cooking
'Terror twins': Zahra (left) and Salma
(right) Halane, who have 28 GCSE's between them, are also believed to
have been joined the Al Khansa. The 16-year-olds ran away from their
Manchester home on 26 June
Inside the Islamic State: The leader
of Al-Khansa is believed to be a six foot tall woman named Umm Hamza,
who carries a gun, electric cattle-prod and daggers beneath her
religious gowns
Another Briton believed to be involved with the Al Khansa Brigade is Lewisham-born Khadijah Dare.
Two
years ago, Dare swapped her 'comfortable life' in Britain, where she
was known for her dimples and her love of her mother's home cooking, for
the horror of Syria.
Now,
after appearing in an ISIS recruitment video calling on British Muslims
to 'stop being selfish' and give up their families and studies to join
the front line in the Middle East, Dare - a pseudonym - is said to be
top of MI6's list.
This morning a woman calling herself Umm Waqqas described the Al Khansa Brigade as 'police women'
A
security source said: 'Her notoriety has evolved so rapidly that she
has achieved a celebrity-like status among jihadists fighting in Syria
and those who are thinking of travelling abroad to join ISIS.
Following
the sickening murder of James Foley by the militant known as Jihadi
John earlier this year, Dare took to Twitter to celebrate the killing.
She later confessed her desire to become the first woman to behead a
Western hostage in one of ISIS' infamous filmed executions.
Other
Britions believed to have been joined the Al Khansa Brigade include the
Manchester-born 'terror twins' Zahra and Salma Halane, who have 28
GCSE's between them.
The
16-year-olds left their Manchester home on 26 June to join the
conflict, were split up upon arrival, and subsequently sent off to
different parts of Syria to marry Islamic State fighters.
At least one of them is now understood to be in Raqqa and reportedly working for Al Khansa.
Earlier
this month it emerged that the girls' Somali-born father Ibrahim, 52,
and mother Khadra Jama, 45, travelled to Syria to try and rescue their
daughters.
Their
mother was temporarily held captive by ISIS during the visit and when
she eventually did get to meet with one of the girls who simply told her
she did not want to return to Britain as she had been chosen by Allah
to fight for the Islamic State.
A picture tweeted by Aqsa Mahmood, who
goes by the name of @UmmLayt, purports to show her posing alongside
women using the nom de guerre's Umm Haritha, and Umm Ubaydah in the
Syrian city of Raqqa
Another woman notorious for references
to the Al Khansa Brigade is British national Umm Farriss (pictured),
who also calls herself Umm Anwar. She uploaded this photograph of
herself to Twitter earlier this year
The
true identity of several other women connected with the secret police
force is not known, but at least two other women claiming to be Britons
have made insider reference to Al Khansa.
On Wednesday morning, a woman calling herself Umm Waqqas described the group as 'police women'.
She said they 'roam the streets with their abayas (black cloaks), niqabs and kalashs (assault rifles).'
Another
woman notorious for the references to the Al Khansa Brigade is British
national Umm Farriss, who also calls herself Umm Anwar.
Earlier
this year she described a chilling encounter with a Yazidi 'slave
girl'. Umm Farriss claims she entered a building in the city of Raqqa
and greeted the entire room. She then described in sickeningly mocking
tones how the abused Yazidi woman offered a 'salam' (hello) in response.
Although
her Western identity has not yet been established, Umm Farris is
believed to have arrived in Syria in February and is known to have
posted photographs of her posing with a suicide bomb belt on Twitter
before her account was eventually disabled.
Such bravado is not uncommon among young ISIS sympathisers active on Twitter. Some doubt the truth behind their bold claims.
Charlie
Winter, programs officer at the think tank Quilliam told MailOnline: 'A
lot of the young women out there talk up their role. A lot of them
exaggerate the amount on knowledge they are party to.'
'It's
all about projecting and exaggerating and that's reflective of the
wider Islamic State media operation. There are a lot of people in Syria
who claim they are senior than they are, more central to Islamic State
operations than they are simply because they are trying to justify why
they're there.'
The Al Khansa Brigade which is largely
made-up of educated Western women, operates as an ultra-oppressive
police force monitoring the behaviour of females in Raqqa - doling out
brutal punishments to anyone wearing shoes that aren't black, or those
wearing veils made from the wrong material
The true identity of several other
women connected with the secret police force is not known, but at least
two other women claiming to be Britons have made insider reference to Al
Khansa. This morning a woman calling herself Umm Waqqas described the
group as 'police women'
Threat: Umm Waqqa added that Al Khan 'roam the streets with their 'niqabs and kalashs (assault rifles)'
The
leader of Al-Khansa is believed to be a six foot tall woman named Umm
Hamza, who carries a gun, electric cattle-prod and daggers beneath her
religious gowns.
Nicknamed
'The Slaughterer', Umm Hamza is understood to have previously been
responsible for carrying out lashings and other punishments at Raqqa's
women's prison.
Umm
Hamza's brutality is said to be notorious throughout the city and her
imposing physical presence makes her unmistakable, even though she is
never seen in public without her niqab.
Witnesses say she arrived in Raqqa in late 2013 wearing the sort of Niqab popular in Pakistan.
Speaking
of Umm Hamza last month, a 25-year-old woman called 'Khadija' who
managed to escape ISIS-held Raqqa told CNN: 'She's not a normal female.
She's huge, she has an AK, a pistol, a whip, a dagger and she wears the
niqab.'
Such
was Khadija's visible fear that another commander Umm Rayan later
sought her out to tell her not to be afraid and that: 'We are harsh with
the infidels, but merciful among ourselves.'
ISIS
has attempted to justify the keeping of sex slaves by claiming that
members of the Yazidi religion are devil worshippers - making them worse
than so-called 'people of the book' such as Christians and Jews, who
can escape imprisonment by paying a monthly tax known as jizyah.
Captured
Yazidis - whose belief system mixes elements from a range of religions
and whose central figure of worship is a 'Peacock Angel' - are not able
to pay their way out of jail, however.
Men
and boys are told to convert to Islam or face immediate death, while
women and children are often transported to Raqqa, where the Al-Khansa
Brigade force them into sex slavery.
Earlier this month a chilling document emerged purporting to show the 'price list' for sex slaves.
According
to the document, obtained by website Iraqinews.com, just £27 will fetch
a Yazidi or Christian woman aged between 40 and 50. Chillingly, a child
between one and nine will fetch four times that.
The document also states that the slavery market has recently taken a downturn, hitting ISIS' war chest.
Armed and dangerous: Members of the
Al-Khansa Brigade are reportedly paid a monthly salary of £100 and,
thanks to them wearing full niqabs covering every inch of skin, operate
quite literally under cover
Guns and children: In September a
Syrian woman agreed to carry a hidden camera to film daily life in
Raqqa. Her footage shows several gun-wielding French women who had left
their home country to join ISIS
One
of the most shocking duties reportedly carried out by the Al Khansa
Brigade is the management of brothels frequented by male Islamic State
fighters in Syria.
The women and children held in these prisons and raped by terrorists several times a day are members of the Yazidi religion.
As
many as 5,000 Yazidi women and children are believed to have been taken
captive in Iraq - the majority of them captured during the Mount Sinjar
massacre in early August
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