Allison Fluke Ekren
Born: 1980;
Place of Birth: United States;
Gender: Female;
Nationality: American;
General Info:
Allison Fluke-Ekren is a former Kansas teacher that could face up to 20 years in prison after being accused of leading an all-female battalion of the Islamic State (IS) group that plotted terror attacks on Americans.
She faces charges of providing and conspiring to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
According to the FBI, after she arrived back to the Eastern District of Virginia, the all-female Islamic State battalion known as Khatiba Nusaybah was established in Raqqa, Syria in 2016.
The battalion was solely composed of female Islamic State members married to male Islamic State fighters and were allegedly led by Fluke-Ekren.
The suspect reportedly became the organizer of the group soon after she joined it.
The paperwork stated Fluke-Ekren trained women and children to use AK-47 assault rifles and suicide vests in Syria.
She also provided the group and its members with lodging, translating speeches made by Islamic State leaders and teaching extremist ISIS doctrine.
Fluke-Ekren mainly taught women and children as young as 5 with self-defense in the use of AK-47 assault rifles, grenades, and suicide vests, according to a witness quoted in the FBI affidavit.
Accordingly, she recruited operatives for a potential future attack on a U.S. college campus.
On at least one occasion, she wanted to terrorize a shopping mall using explosives.
At the time, Fluke-Ekren reportedly said they have to massacre several people so their resources would not go to waste.
To conduct the attack, Fluke-Ekren allegedly explained that she could go to a shopping mall in the United States, park a vehicle full of explosives in the basement or parking garage level of the structure, and detonate the explosives in the vehicle with a cell phone triggering device
Fluke-Ekren and her husband brought $15,000 into Syria to secure an array of weapons, grenades, and other military supplies.
Prosecutors said she has reportedly been involved in a vast hive of Islamic State terror activities since 2014.