British terrorist Sally Jones has been placed on a list of the top 40 most dangerous ISIS operatives – sparking fears the ‘White Widow’ jihadist may still be alive.
The US State Department raised fears the former punk rocker, originally from Chatham, Kent, could be alive in the Middle East.
The 50-year-old was reportedly killed in a US drone strike close to the Syria-Iraqi border last October, where many ISIS terrorists were fleeing after losing control of key cities in Syria.
The onetime punk rocker from Kent went to Syria with her son in 2013. A former L’Oreal saleswoman, she lived in a council house in Chatham before fleeing to Syria in 2013, after falling for hacker jihadi Junaid Hussain online. She was killed by by an American drone in June. Pictured: A composite image of Jones, which first appeared on her Twitter account, showing her dressed as a nun while pointing a gun at the camera and holding a dog – a direct copy of the front cover of the novel Divorcing Jack
It was reported that the mother-of-two was killed alongside her 12-year-old son JoJo, who was taken to Syria to live with her.
However there are conflicting reports that the child, known as Hamza Hussain, may have survived.
Jones was added to the US list on September 2015 and remains there along with two other Britons.
The other two include Anjem Choudary, who was jailed for five and a half years for supporting ISIS in September 2016, and Siddartha Dhar, 34, also known as Abu Rumaysah al-Britani, who appeared on the Channel 4 documentary ‘The Jihadis Next Door’.
Jones was a high priority on the Pentagon’s ‘kill list’ because she was believed to have masterminded dozens of terror plots. Pictured: The propagandist with her son JoJo, who Western intelligence sources have now confirmed was killed in the strike
Jones helped ISIS lure would-be jihadis and called for attacks on RAF bases and the Queen on VJ day. She travelled to Syria to marry terrorist Junaid Hussain back in 2013.
Hussain was killed in a drone strike in 2015 although Jones kept producing propaganda for Daesh. Jones has never formally been wiped off the US target list as her DNA was not recovered from the ground.
The tiny remaining doubt is due to the difficult in collecting DNA samples from a war zone.
Jones was a high priority on the Pentagon’s ‘kill list’ because she was believed to have masterminded dozens of terror plots.
Jones is believed to have been travelling in a convoy of vehicles close to Syria’s border with Iraq when the airstrike was ordered by the Pentagon last June
She was believed to be the leader of the secret Anwar al-Awlaki battalion’s female wing and was said to be responsible for training European female terror recruits.
Jones had used her Twitter account to spread propaganda for the group, and tweeted of her wish to behead a Western prisoner in Syria and behead Christians with a ‘blunt knife’.
The US State Department said the top 40 list was ‘part of a comprehensive plan to defeat ISIS’ by ‘denying its ability to recruit foreign terrorist fighters, stifling its financial resources and negating their false propaganda’.
Jones’s inclusion on the list raises the possibility of her still being alive which would lead to the assets outside of the UK to be frozen.
JoJo was believed to have been forced to execute prisoners during his time in Syria after being brainwashed by jihadis. A nine-minute ISIS video issued in 2016 appeared to show the boy executing a captured prisoner in a firing squad