ISIS bride claims to know where terror group hid £20million in gold in desert
An ISIS bride stuck in a Syrian camp has claimed she knows where the brutal terror group has hidden more than "£20million in gold" in the desert.
The mother-of-one, who has not been identified for her own safety, was previously married to at least two high-ranking terrorists in the Islamic State. She is currently being held in a Syrian prison camp. Her claims echo those made by a relative of the killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. After Baghdadi was killed in allied airstrikes, a cousin of the ISIS kingpin by marriage, Mohammed Ali Sajet, told Al-Ararabiya news that he and other leaders would bury millions of pounds worth of looted dollars, gold and silver in the desert. It's feared any stashes of money the group has could be used to help fund new atrocities.
The former Chief of the Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (ABACA/PA Images)The unnamed woman revealed in a series of messages to journalist and filmmaker Andrew Drury that she claims to know where the gold is, but feels "no one is listening to her", The Daily Express exclusively reported.
Andrew said acquaintances of the woman during her time with the group included the notorious 'Beatles' — four men who were named after the famous band because of their British accents, who murdered hostages while fighting with ISIS in Syria. He said: "She was mixing with the likes of the Beatles and the hierarchy of ISIS, she was married to at least two high-ranking fighters during the war. ISIS looted everywhere they went so it makes sense they could have taken gold and money and stashed it in the desert when things started going wrong for them."
He continued: "The last message I had from her was telling me ‘I want to tell someone about the gold hidden by ISIS in Syria’. She says she knows where it is, but she feels no one is listening to her. She believes she is being punished because she is trying to tell the truth about what happened under ISIS, but the other girls are lying and being sent home. My source has told me ‘a lot of dangerous women’ as she puts it, ‘who did really bad things’, are being accepted back by various governments because they are not telling the truth."
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Meanwhile, a German woman who joined the Islamic State and chained up a five-year-old Yazidi slave girl, leaving her to die of thirst in the baking sun, has been handed a 14-year prison sentence by a Munich court. Jennifer Wenisch, 32, and her then-husband, an ISIS fighter, had exploited the young Yazidi and her mum as household slaves. The girl was left chained up in the baking Iraq heat. After she died, Wenisch put a gun to the slave mother's head and threatened to shoot her in an attempt to stop her crying.
The defendant was found guilty of enslavement, in one case resulting in death, being an accessory to attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organisation abroad in October 2021. Since then, Germany's Federal Court of Justice threw out her appeal.
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