{"id":1721537,"date":"2022-11-02T12:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721537"},"modified":"2022-11-02T12:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:34:42","slug":"kansas-woman-who-led-all-female-isis-battalion-gets-20-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kansas-woman-who-led-all-female-isis-battalion-gets-20-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Woman Who Led All-Female ISIS Battalion Gets 20 Years In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkansas-woman-who-led-all-female-isis-battalion-gets-20-years-in-prison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721537&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Kansas woman who led an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, received the sentence in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, after pleading guilty to conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deeply regret my choices, but I also deeply sympathize with women abused and raped in Syria,\u201d Fluke-Ekren <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/kansas-woman-helmed-female-isis-battalion-sentenced-20-years-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the judge ahead of her sentencing, according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing also includes 25 years of supervised release after her imprisonment. The plea deal was made after Fluke-Ekron confessed that she translated and analyzed documents stolen from the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi after a terrorist attack in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter, Layla Ekren, now 20, filed a letter against her mother in court testimony. Layla claimed that she was abused by her mother and forced to marry an ISIS fighter at the age of 13.<\/p>\n<p>Fluke-Ekren also attempted to convince the U.S. government that she was dead in 2018 to avoid being detained, according to a press release from the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2018, Fluke-Ekren informed another witness that she had instructed an individual in Syria to send a message to one of her family members stating that Fluke-Ekren was dead so that the U.S. government would not attempt to locate her. Fluke-Ekren informed this same witness that it was important to kill the \u2018kuffar\u2019 (disbelievers) and die as martyrs on behalf of ISIS in Syria,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/american-woman-who-led-isis-battalion-sentenced-20-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> read.<\/p>\n<p>Fluke-Ekren was originally detained in January and revealed that she led attacks in Syria involving a group of 100 women. She also admitted to plotting attacks on American targets, including a university and a shopping mall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo conduct the attack, Fluke-Ekren allegedly explained that she could go to a shopping mall in the United States, park a vehicle full of explosives in the basement or parking garage level of the structure, and detonate the explosives in the vehicle with a cell phone triggering device. Fluke-Ekren allegedly considered any attack that did not kill a large number of individuals to be a waste of resources,\u201d the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/american-woman-who-led-isis-battalion-charged-providing-material-support-terrorist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n<p>Fluke-Ekren was previously a school teacher and a mother of at least seven children, including five born in the U.S. She moved to Egypt in 2008, then to Libya in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>She moved with other ISIS members to Syria in 2012 after the attack on Benghazi. The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kansas-woman-confesses-to-leading-all-female-isis-battalion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that court documents also revealed that she and her husband, who was killed in an airstrike in 2016, were affiliated with Ansar al-Sharia and that the couple had drafted a report for terrorist leaders after analyzing government documents stolen during the Benghazi attack.<\/p>\n<p>While in Syria, Fluke-Ekren stated that she was involved in weapons training with groups of women, including teenage girls and some girls as young as 10 years old. The weapons included AK-47s, grenades, and suicide vests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kansas woman who led an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, received the sentence in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, after pleading guilty to conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization. \u201cI deeply regret my choices, but I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1721543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}