• Friday, March 29, 2024

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Teen becomes youngest woman jailed in UK for terrorism

Safaa Boular

By: Sarwar Alam

A London teenager was jailed for life on Friday for plotting a terror attack, becoming the youngest woman to be sentenced for terrorism offences in Britain. Safaa Boular, 18, who together with her mother and elder sister formed the country’s first all-female cell linked to the Islamic State group, will spend a minimum of 13 years in prison. She had planned violent attacks in the British capital, using coded language themed around a tea party, after UK authorities stopped her travelling to Syria to marry an IS fighter she had met online. “However much she may have been influenced and drawn…

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