• Thursday, April 25, 2024

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London teen becomes UK’s youngest convicted female Islamic State terrorist

Safaa Boular

By: Sarwar Alam

A London teenager who wanted to attack the British Museum with grenades and firearms after she was prevented from travelling to Syria to marry an Islamic State militant was convicted on Monday (4) of planning acts of terrorism. Safaa Boular, now 18, had started chatting online to fighter Naweed Husain when she was 16. She had decided to join him in Syria so they could marry, then carry out a suicide attack there while holding hands. Husain had sent Boular’s older sister, Rizlaine Boular, £3,000 to pay for Safaa’s travel arrangements, but the sisters were arrested in August 2016. They…

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