New Delhi, 04 February 2022

As per news report of BBC, Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, is accused of training children as young as six to use machine guns and planning to commit "violent jihad". She was denied bail after appearing in court in Virginia on Thursday. She faces up to 40 years in prison. How the former school teacher, who said she prefers to go by the surname Ekrens, went from Midwestern wife to terror fanatic who rose in the ranks of the Islamic State (IS) group to command her own all-female battalion is a mystery. Larry Miller, who was Ms Ekren's science teacher when she was a teenager in Topeka, Kansas, in the 1990s, told the BBC he was utterly stunned by the news of her IS ties. He remembered her fondly as a bright student during the years that she attended the fee-paying school where he taught.

Source - BBC

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