ISIS kidnap victim claims she saw Shamima Begum at training camp for terrorists
A former ISIS slave has warned Shamima Begum "will never change" after saying she saw her at a terrorist training camp where she would have been trained how to carry out attacks.
'Dila', whose name was changed to protect her identity, is a Yazidi victim of the terrorist group who was enslaved for seven years and sexually abused after being sold when she was 13.
Now 20, she has identified British-born Begum saying she was "100% certain" she saw her at a terrorist training camp in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor dubbed "Students of Sharia".
Dila also told former squaddie-cum ISIS investigator Alan Duncan in an interview he shared with The Sun that Begum was "friends" with a man known to enslave and sell girls as young as 14 for abuse, as well as a German ISIS bride she named "Um-Herrera".
Dila still has seven family members missing since the terror group carried out a genocide on the Yazidi people, purging an estimated 5,000 and kidnapping double that figure.
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To date, at least 2,700 Yazidi women and children remain missing, their whereabouts or whether they are alive or dead completely unknown.
Begum was 15 when she fled her home in Bethnal Green , east London, and was smuggled into Syria in February 2015, alongside two friends Amira Abase and Kazida Sultana.
Begum was smuggled into Syria aged 15 (AFP via Getty Images)Nothing was heard from Begum until 2019 in a Syrian refugee camp, and has since been embroiled in a lengthy legal battle to be allowed back to the UK.
According to Dila, Begum would have spent time learning how to use suicide belts and handle weapons such as shotguns and M16 assault rifles whilst being brainwashed with a twisted interpretation of Sharia Law.
The group, Dila said whilst speaking from her current location in North Kurdistan, Iraq, would be divided between handling weapons and being indoctrinated, with "students" forced to train from dusk until dawn.
Dila expressed her horror as Mr Duncan showed her a picture of Begum dressed in Western-style clothing, with a top showing her bare arms and a baseball cap.
Dila said she was '100 per cent' certain she saw Begum at a terrorist training camp in eastern Syria (BBC/Joshua Baker)"It is fake by Begum. Living with ISIS women and ISIS in general I understand how they think, how loyal they are to their Sharia ideas," the former prisoner said.
"Even if they are not in ISIS - I don't think they have open mentality and those clothes are representing them, I am certain.
She went on: "They are faking facts, women of ISIS will never change, they still believe in what they believe.
"Many of them still in the camps believe ISIS will rise again."
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Mr Duncan, who served with the Queen’s Own Highlanders and Royal Irish Regiment with the Army before joining the Kurdish Peshmergas, continued to push Dila on whether she was absolutely certain about Begum's identity and was told she was "not even 1% uncertain" it could have been somebody else.
"I have no doubt - I am very certain it was Shamima," she said.
Begum has tried repeatedly to regain her British citizenship (Getty Images)Mr Duncan said former child brides like Begum were a "ticking time bomb", and that there was not enough attention in the UK to the plight of the Yazidis.
"With the way things are - even if she gets back to the UK - she will never serve a day in prison."
Since Begum's latest battle against the stripping of her British citizenship was rejected, human rights lawyers have come out in her defence describing her treatment now as "appalling".
"It is offensive and appalling that the British government’s response to a British child being trafficked to a war zone for the purposes of sexual exploitation was to revoke her British citizenship and leave her permanently stranded there," lawyer Shoaib M Khan said.
Begum married the notoriously hardline IS member Dutch national Yago Riedijk, 27, aged just 15 and had three children with him who all later died.
At present, she remains still at a refugee camp in northern Syria.
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