GLOBAL JIHAD
TEEN WHO JOINED ISIS 'KILLED TRYING TO ESCAPE'
Became 'poster girl' after arriving in Syria in 2014
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One of the Islamic State group’s “poster girls” was allegedly killed after trying to flee Syria.
Samra Kesinovic, 17, left Vienna in April 2014 to join the Sunni terror group with her 16-year-old friend Sabina Selimovic. Both were featured in propaganda videos from Raqqa, Syria, until Selimovic died in the war zone, the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee, or CTED, reported last December.
Local Austrian papers reported that Kesinovic, who married an ISIS fighter, was killed trying to escape Raqqa, the Telegraph reported Tuesday.
A unidentified Tunisian woman who claimed to have lived with both teenagers relayed the news.
David Scharia, a senior Israeli expert with CTED, said the girls, originally from Bosnia, were radicalized by an Bosnian preacher living in Vienna. The man, known as “Ebu Tejma,” was arrested and charged with funding ISIS earlier this month, the Daily Mail reported.
Austrian officials estimate that at least 130 of its citizens are now fighting in Syria on behalf of the Sunni terror network.
Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman Alexander Marakovits said on Tuesday the nation was experiencing a spike in interest with ISIS among young people, the newspaper reported.
“If we can catch them before they leave we have the chance to work with their parents and other institutions to bring the youngsters out of the sphere of influence that prompted them to act in this way the first place. Once they have left the country, even if they then changed their minds, it is then almost impossible to get them back,” Marakovits said.
Thomas Schnoll, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, told the Telegraph he could not comment on the teenager’s case.
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