US drone strike kills "White Widow' who recruited for ISIS

Times:

Sally Jones, one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, has been killed in a US drone strike in Syria, it was revealed last night.

The former punk rocker from Kent, who converted to Islam and became a leading recruiter for Islamic State, died in June close to Syria’s border with Iraq, US spy chiefs are understood to have told their British counterparts. It is likely that her son Jojo, 12, was also killed.

A Whitehall source told The Times: “The premise that Sally Jones and her son are dead is probably accurate.”

Jones, 50, a mother of two, followed the same fate as her husband, Junaid Hussain, 21.

Hussain, a computer hacker from Birmingham who was another senior Isis member, was killed in a drone strike in the terrorist group’s former stronghold of Raqqa, northern Syria, in August 2015. British intelligence assisted in helping to locate him.

MI6 officers are also thought to have been tracking the movements of Jones, who travelled with Jojo to Syria in 2013 to marry Hussain.

Jones and Hussain were on a US “kill list” of high-value targets. Her death brings to at least six the number of known British Isis terrorists to have been killed in drone strikes in Syria. The true number is likely to be higher as it is often difficult to verify the identity of jihadists killed from the air.

According to The Sun newspaper, a US Air Force Predator drone was used to kill Jones, who has been called the “White Widow” and the “Punk Rock Jihadi”. Her nom de guerre was Umm Hussain al-Britani.

She had been attempting to flee Raqqa as it came under increased bombardment from US, British and other coalition aircraft as well as American-backed local forces on the ground in the long-running campaign against Isis in Iraq and Syria.

“The Americans zapped her trying to get away from Raqqa. Quite frankly, it’s good riddance,” a Whitehall source was quoted as telling the newspaper.
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This is another benefit of taking Raqqa.  It forces the cockroaches to flee.  It is like flipping the light switch on in an infested house.  The Trump change ion Obama's restrictive rules of engagement likely made this attack easier to execute.