Radical squad of 30 British women plot to attack the UK recruiting jihadis online

The cell is using social media such as Twitter and Facebook to find recruits for the jihad cause and they want members to cause devastation in the UK



A radical squad of British women are urging wannabe Islamic State terrorists to strike on our own streets.

The cell is using social media such as Twitter and Facebook to find recruits for the jihad cause.

And instead of calling for fighters to join them to train in Syria, they want them to cause devastation at home.

The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation has been monitoring web accounts of Brits who have gone to Syria.

It found 30 British women acting as IS recruiters or praising those behind attacks such as the Charlie Hebdo slaughter in Paris.

ICSR expert Melanie Smith said: “British women tend to incite [attacks], they say to people that can’t move to the Islamic State: ‘Why not carry out something at home?’

“That’s a common message; if you can’t leave your family behind or afford to move to Syria, then carry out something.”



She told the Observer: “You can see women frustrated they can’t fight. They suggest to each other they could do something else.”

Thought to be among the British women experts have been watching are twins Salma and Zahra Halane, 16, of Manchester.

The pair ran away to follow their brother to Syria and are said to have married IS fighters.

Ex-public schoolgirl Aqsa Mahmood, 20, of Glasgow, dropped out of university to marry an IS fighter in the war-torn state.

She wrote online: “If you cannot make it to the battlefield, then bring the battlefield to yourself.”

It came as Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg clashed with spy chiefs over anti-terror laws.

Many spooks want powers to retain our texts, emails and web usage, as the internet is increasingly used to plot terror.

Former M15 boss Jonathan Evans wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: “The ability of security agencies to protect our society is under threat from changing technology.

"We expect them to stop the attack taking place. They can only do this if they have the tools.

“Increasing areas of digital communications are beyond the reach of law. It is imperative the laws are brought up to date.”



But Mr Clegg insisted his party would not sanction a snoopers’ charter.

He told the BBC: “It is a blanket approach to the retention of data of innocent people. It is not a very British thing.”

As fears built of a looming terror strike on the UK, Home Secretary Theresa May pledged more police patrols in key Jewish areas, following an attack that killed four people in a Jewish supermarket in Paris.

She told an event to remember the victims that it was a “chilling reminder” of the recent rise in anti-Semitism, including in the UK, where Jews are “fearful.”

Holding a sign that said Je Suis Juif – I am Jewish – she said more police would be on patrol at synagogues and schools.

Around 269,000 people in the UK are Jewish, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism said.

It added last year had the most anti-Semitic attacks since records began 30 years ago.

Mrs May said: “Without its Jews, Britain would not be Britain; just as without its Muslims, Britain would not be Britain; without its Sikhs, Hindus, Christians and other faiths, Britain would not be Britain.”

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