ISIS bride Shamima Begum cared for wounded jihadis and nursed them back to health so they could get back to fighting US-led coalition forces, it emerged today.
The remorseless 19-year-old claimed she had lived a 'normal life' after fleeing Bethnal Green for Syria, marrying a Dutch Muslim convert fighter and having his children.
But today security sources claimed that while she may have started her ISIS life as a housewife she later helped with its war effort.
It is alleged she worked in crumbling caliphate's National Hospital in its de facto capital Raqqa.
First she cleaned wards and changed beds before changing bandages and caring for soldiers with gunshot wounds and other injuries.
ISIS bride Shamima Begum claimed to be a housewife but actually cared for wounded jihadis, security sources have said
Raqqa's now-shattered National Hospital, where Begum allegedly worked as an ISIS nurse despite no medical training
A security source told the Daily Mirror: 'We know that in her first year in Raqqa she worked in the hospital treating ISIS fighters, while her husband mounted attacks on US-led coalition forces.
Shamima Begum, 19 (pictured before she left the country four years ago) and her family are all pleading with the government to allow her back into Britain
'Women worked as cleaners, cooks and ad hoc nurses in the hospital where IS soldiers that had a chance of recovery were patched up – those badly injured were shot dead. Latterly, she worked more closely with patients.'
He added: 'We are not clear if Begum worked as a volunteer or was forced, but she willingly flew to Turkey and got across the border to join ISIS.'
Begum has had her US passport torn up - but her son Jerah, reportedly named after a 7th century Islamic warlord, will have the right to be a British citizen.
They are both in a Syrian refugee camp after fleeing ISIS' final losing battle in Baghouz, where they face certain defeat.
She believed that Britain should show her 'sympathy and understanding' and let her come back to London - but the UK says he 'actions must have consequences'.
Today the jihadi bride's family have written to the Home Secretary challenging his decision to revoke her British citizenship.
Sajid Javid blocked the 19-year-old's return earlier this week, saying she poses a risk to the country's security.
But in a letter to Mr Javid, her family have said they 'cannot simply abandon her' and that her
