ISIS appoint British female doctor to terror health chief in Iraq
A security source told local media: “IS selected a British female doctor from Sudanese origin, who arrived to Nineveh via Syria two years ago, to head the group’s health department after the group’s health minister was killed in an airstrike in Hawija.
“The doctor was one of eight doctors who fled London to join IS.”
She is reported to be the first woman to head the group’s health department.
Around 850 Britons are believed to have travelled to Syria to support or fight with jihadist groups, with security services reported to have identified 350 as having returned to the UK.
In the meantime, Iraq’s Defence Ministry has completed preparations for retaking Tal Afar, ISIS’ last stronghold in the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh.
The Iraqi Defence Ministry has also said it is waiting for orders to launch operations for the enclave.
After Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared the recapture of Mosul from ISIS militants in early July, police forces have been searching the western side of the city for sleeper militant cells and munition hiding places.
However, the remnants of the terror group have launched intermittent attacks against Iraqi troops and civilians despite the Iraqi Prime Minister’s declaration.
Last week former MI5 boss Jonathan Evans warned that the UK will face up to 30 years of terrorist threats.
He said: “I think that we are going to be facing 20 or 30 years of terrorist threats and therefore we need absolutely critically to persevere and just keep doing it.
“More widely, I think we’re going to have to think very carefully about our dependence on the internet, particularly on what’s called the ‘internet of things’.
“That as our vehicles, as our air transport, as our critical infrastructure is resting increasingly on the internet, we need to be really confident that we have secured that because our economic and our daily lives are going to be dependent upon the security that we can put in to protect our infrastructure from cyber attack.
“I think that’s going to be a big challenge going forward.”
Source: Express
