By Leigh Mcmanus For Mailonline
Published: 15:46 BST, 21 April 2019 | Updated: 15:50 BST, 21 April 2019
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A mother-of-three living as an events organiser and translator in Germany has been exposed as a jihadi bride who ran a recruitment drive for the terrorist group, it is claimed.
Omaima Abdi returned from Syria before the ISIS caliphate fell. She slipped back into a western lifestyle in Hamburg, northern Germany but was rumbled when damning photos were discovered on a phone she lost, according to The Sunday Times.
Photos of family meals and school runs with her young children were in stark contrast to the ones showing her son holding a pistol, and posing in front of ISIS insignia.
Omaima Abdi pictured lovingly gazing at her rifle-wielding fighter husband in Raqqa, Syria
The lost phone fell into the hands of an Arabic journalist who passed it on to a Dubai-based TV channel who broadcast the findings.
It revealed that her interest in Islam started in 2012, before which she led a western life, then joining as ISIS fighter husband with her three kids in Raqqa in January 2015, then returning to Germany unchallenged around 2016.
After the airing on Al Aan, police in her home city of Hamburg revealed they have already initiated inquiries into Abdi's double life.
M15 are also keen to speak to the German in relation to her British links amid fears the UK could face an influx of returning brides who could slip under the radar like Abdi did upon her return from Raqqa.
