British newspaper the Sun quotes a British government official as saying: “The Americans zapped her trying to get away from Raqqa. Quite frankly, it’s good riddance,” the official said about Sally Jones.
Jones, 50, left the UK in 2013 with her 12-year-old son, JoJo, to join the terror group in Syria, gaining notoriety herself, after marrying a notorious Isis fighter. The convert left the UK to marry Junaid Hussain who was also killed in an earlier drone strike
Jones, also known as ‘Umm Hussain Birtaniya,’ met her Jihadist husband online.
CIA officials reportedly, informed their British counterparts that a US Air Force Predator drone flown by a pilot in the US killed the pair in June near the border between Syria and Iraq, the paper reported.
But news of the strike has been kept under wraps on both sides of the Atlantic amid fears that JoJo, whose jihadist mom had used him as a human shield, might also have been killed.
US intelligence officials were quoted as saying they could not be 100 percent certain that Jones had been killed because there was no way of recovering any DNA from the site — but that they were “confident” she was dead.
Jones last recorded sighting of Jones, she was seen fleeing the carnage in the ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa and heading toward the town of Mayadin on the Syrian border.
A convert to Islam from Chatham, Kent, Jones was nicknamed the “White Widow” by the British press after her Jihadi hubby Junaid Hussain, whom she met online, was killed by a drone in 2015.
Former punk rocker Jones used to be singer for the group Krunch
Sally Jones vowed to launch a retaliatory strike on U.S. after her ISIS husband Junaid Hussain,was killed in a 2015 drone strike
Jones, who was active as an online recruiter, sometimes posted propaganda messages on social media, including a sepia-toned image of herself dressed as a nun pointing a gun toward the camera.
Jones, a major ISIS recruiter of foreign female Jihadis, had been designated a high-value target, but sources said her son was not specifically targeted because he was not deemed a combatant.
He is believed to have been brainwashed by ISIS thugs, who gave him lessons in radical Islam, as well as firearms and martial arts training, according to the Sun.
Last year, his heartbroken grandparents identified a boy featured in an ISIS execution video as JoJo, who was seen brandishing a pistol behind a row of kneeling prisoners before they were executed.
“He would never even tread on an ant,” one of his relatives said about the animal-loving boy.
Sally Jones met Junaid Hussain online
Jones, a former singer for the punk group Krunch who had lived on benefits, was put in charge of the female wing of an ISIS battalion of foreign fighters. It was founded by Hussain to attack Europe and America.
American intelligence officials blamed her for publicizing a list of 1,300 US military personnel for ISIS extremists to attack.
She and her husband also were linked to a plot to blow up Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on the streets of London during V-J Day celebrations in 2015.
the Independent chronicles that she also used Twitter to spread propaganda about beheading Westerners with a “blunt knife”.
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