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An American ISIS bride claims jihadis took her phone and sent tweets inciting attacks on President Obama to make her look bad.
Diplomat's daughter Hoda Muthana, who was born in New Jersey and grew up in Alabama, travelled to Syria to join ISIS in 2014 aged 20.
In January 2016 the Obama administration revoked her passport and earlier this year the US Supreme Court declined an appeal against that decision.
Hoda Muthana, now 27, is a prisoner alongside other foreign ISIS brides including her friend Briton Shamima Begum at Al-Roj Camp, northeast Syria.
According to Buzzfeed News, Hoda used Twitter under the name 'Umm Jihad' and the handle @ZumarulJannah.
On March 19, 2015, that account shared statements encouraging followers in the US to attack parades on national holidays and 'spill all of their blood or rent a big truck n (sic) drive all over them. Kill them'.
Another tweet posted on the same day read 'You can look up Obamas schedule on the white house (sic) website. Take down that treacherous tyrant!'.
ISIS bride Hoda Muthana (pictured in 2022) has been unable to return to the US after joining the jihadist group in 2014. She recently denied sending out tweets threatening violence against Obama and the public from an account believed to be hers
Muthana, pictured with her son several years ago, said the tweets were sent out by a woman in their group who had confiscated all of their phones
Muthana (pictured in 2019) said she had no knowledge of the tweets and believed they were sent out to prevent her being able to go home
Two weeks ago Hoda, who has a five-year-old son whose ISIS father was killed, denied she had anything to do with the tweets.
From what coverage she has seen of herself online the worst part was people thinking she sent the tweets.
She said: 'The worst thing against me is this online Twitter stuff.
'I never had a platform to say this, but I have always been trying to tell people that those tweets were not mine.
'It either gets cut out of the media or it gets kind of butchered somehow and I never get a platform.
'It's not fair, the person that did bring me here had a wife who I become (sic) friends with.
'There was a group of us in a home and she would take our phones.
'She would take our phones and tell us because we've always thought about going back to our countries that we need to make ourselves look bad in the media so we don't have this persuasion to go back.
'That's basically what her agenda was, that's what their (ISIS) agenda is, that they have to portray you in the worst way so that you don't have these thoughts of ever wanting to return.
'She just took my phone and I thought she was just looking through my diary or something and then when she left and I looked through and I saw a bunch of evil horrible tweets that I would never have done because I wanted to stay off media, I never wanted to get myself out there you know.
'It was not only me that she did it to, it was several people and they were made to look really bad also.'
Hoda said she believed the social media tirades, which she alleges someone else posted, were the catalyst for the US revoking her passport and for the Trump administration to state she was not welcome back.
She said: 'Of course that's exactly what Mike Pompeo was quoting about me is that I've threatened Americans, I've threatened military personnel.
'Some of the tweets I have read for the first time in this camp. I came here and somebody asked me, 'were you the one that wanted to kill Obama?' and I was like, 'What? No way'.
'I don't even know what the tweet exactly says and they (inmates) asked me this (about the tweets) when I first came here and I said, 'no way, that's not me' and I just brushed it off.
'Then when I looked up an article about me, I saw the tweet and I was just utterly shocked.
This photo of female jihadis waving the ISIS flag was found on a now-deactivated Twitter account which reportedly belonged to Muthana
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of Muthana after she left her family's home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror group, but then decided she wanted to return to the United States
In February 2019 Trump Tweeted: 'I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!'
'Somebody like me who watched Obama winning in 2008, I actually had tears in my eyes. My family celebrated him winning.
'So for me to turn around and then tweet about it (him) many years later was not me at all.
'Then the fun one for me was the Obama administration was the one that took my citizenship away so this broke me even more.'
Hoda, whose father was a Yemeni diplomat, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, but grew up in Virginia and Alabama.
She said: 'I lived like a very quiet life, I was very restricted from having a social life and when you're restricted from having a social
