British jihadi bride injured in an allied air attack is given a new arm and a ...

British jihadi bride injured in an allied air attack is given a new arm and a ...
British jihadi bride injured in an allied air attack is given a new arm and a ...

A British jihadi bride who lost an arm in an air strike is living in a £500,000 council house and has been fitted with a prosthetic limb, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Samia Hussein was injured when coalition forces launched an attack on a weapons store next to her home in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which was under the control of Islamic State.

The 27-year-old, who joined the terror group in 2015, was arrested when she arrived back in Britain in February 2020. 

It is not known how the artificial arm was funded, but one of Hussein’s relatives said: ‘It’s from the NHS, definitely’

It is not known how the artificial arm was funded, but one of Hussein’s relatives said: ‘It’s from the NHS, definitely’

The Metropolitan Police last night said she had not been charged with any offence but remained ‘under investigation’.

It is not known how the artificial arm was funded, but one of Hussein’s relatives said: ‘It’s from the NHS, definitely.’

Hussein, who was born and grew up in London, moved to the Kenyan capital Nairobi in around 2012 to study for her A-levels, living with her stepfather. 

She subsequently enrolled on a degree course in journalism at the United States International University in Nairobi in 2014, months after IS declared its caliphate stretching between Syria and Iraq. 

She started watching IS propaganda videos with university friends and, according to her own account, was being groomed online by terror chiefs at the same time.

It is understood Hussein left Kenya and entered Syria via Turkey in early 2015. Speaking to independent film-maker Alan Duncan, who has made a three-part documentary about IS, she said she first stayed in a ‘madhafa’, or guesthouse, for IS women in the town of Manbij, which was nicknamed ‘Little London’ because of the large numbers of British jihadis living there.

She started watching IS propaganda videos with university friends and, according to her own account, was being groomed online by terror chiefs at the same time

She started watching IS propaganda videos with university friends and, according to her own account, was being groomed online by terror chiefs at the same time

Newly arrived women were forced to stay in a madhafa until they married an IS man. Hussein said she wed a fighter called Abu Suleiman, who was also known as Abu Maryam, and the couple lived in Manbij for six months before moving to Raqqa.

Following the air strike, she spent seven months in hospital where her arm was amputated. She also lost a breast and suffered severe leg injuries.

Hussein was captured during the battle of Baghouz – the last IS stronghold in Syria – in early 2019 and was detained at the al-Hol prison camp, where she was interviewed by Duncan that May.

Speaking about her time with the terror group, she told him: ‘At that age [20], it was a vulnerable age you’re in, trying to find a purpose in life... I left my career of being a journalist, probably working for Al-Jazeera.

‘It’s sad that for really four years, four years went down the drain… I left everything, thinking I was coming for a better cause.

‘The Islamic State, they take your mind. They show the good side of what they are doing, and you see nothing else at all.’ But Hussein joined IS at a time when the group had already captured thousands of Yazidi women and taken them as sex slaves. Meanwhile, its British executioner Mohamed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John, had beheaded five Western hostages on camera.

Such horrific news was being broadcast on news channels across the world, including Kenya, which Hussein would have seen. When asked about IS’s sickening violence, Hussein said: ‘I didn’t do anything. I played no part in it, OK.’

Hussein said she wanted to leave IS as soon as she entered Syria, but feared she would be killed and was effectively kept against her will.

But when she was asked in the same interview about the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, which left 22 – mainly children – dead, she described

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