Was Sally Jones’s ‘human shield’ son, 12, killed in drone strike that wiped out mum?
WHITE Widow Sally Jones's 12-year-old son Jojo is feared to have been killed in the drone strike that wiped out his mum.
Jones - who left her home in Chatham, Kent, with son Jojo in 2013 to join ISIS - regularly used him as a human shield.
Jojo is believed to have been brainwashed by ISIS - undergoing lessons in radical Islam and firearms and martial arts training.
Last year his heartbroken grandparents identified a boy who featured in an ISIS execution video as him.
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Standing behind a row of kneeling prisoners in orange boiler suits, the boy brandished a pistol moments before the men were murdered.
It was a world away from his Kent childhood, with relatives describing him as a gentle animal-loving lad. One said: “He would never even tread on an ant."
His granddad Terry Lynch later told The Sun: "I couldn’t believe it, I feel so sad. That is a wasted life. His life is finished.
"There is no way he can come back to the normal world. It’s terrible. Unbelievable. I feel really guilty because the boy used to say to me, ‘Grandad, can I stay with you?’
"He was a lovely little boy, gorgeous. He’s a lost soul, you are never going to get him back. How do you ask him to come back to this country and join in with ordinary kids playing football on the street when he has a Kalashnikov?
"Within two weeks he could take a Kalashnikov to pieces and rebuild it."
The US Air Force Predator strike that killed Jones is said to have taken place close to the border between Syria and Iraq.
A Whitehall source said: "The Americans zapped her trying to get away from Raqqa. Quite frankly, it’s good riddance."
But sources said Jojo was not specifically targeted as he had not been deemed a combatant. If he was also killed in the missile strike, it would not have been on purpose.
Sources added the attack would have been aborted if it had been known he was close by.
Last year Jojo's father told the his son had been "a brilliant, normal boy" until his mother brainwashed him with ISIS propaganda.
A friend of his dad added: "Sally would send him texts that were disgusting. She would threaten to take JoJo to Islamic rallies and leave him there. It was awful."
But the US government could still face a backlash for killing Jojo if his death is confirmed.
It's understood Jones is the first woman to be specifically targeted in a drone strike.
Shiraz Maher, deputy director at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, told the : "If these reports are true, it means Sally Jones was targeted [by] a drone strike.
“That would be the first woman I know of who’s been specifically targeted in this way.”
The drone strike came as coalition forces tightened the squeeze on ISIS positions in Raqqa.
She met computer hacker Hussain, 21, from Birmingham, in Syria. Mum-of-two Jones, a former punk singer who lived on benefits, was put in charge of the female wing of an ISIS battalion of foreign fighters.
It was founded by Hussain to attack Europe and America. She was also a key recruiter of British ISIS wannabes. It is thought she is the sixth Briton killed in Syria by a drone.
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Punk who joined ISIS
SALLY Jones left her Chatham council house for the killing fields of Syria to be a jihadi bride — taking eight-year-old Jojo with her but leaving behind an older son.
Once in Raqqa, the former punk singer wed Junaid Hussain, who she had met online, and took the name Umm Hussein al-Britani.
Back home her distraught family watched as she posted antiSemitic hate messages under a photograph of herself wearing a niqab and waving an AK-47.
In one propaganda post, she posed as a nun with a gun and spoke of her wish to behead Christians with a “nice blunt knife.”
Hussain was killed by a US army drone in Raqqa in 2015 — and Jones became known as the White Widow.
She also became a prolific recruiter for ISIS and her name was put on a US kill list.
But it did not stop her trying to encourage terror attacks in the West. In one 2016 post she sent a message saying: “Have a nice summer. I wouldn’t go into central London through June or July. Well, to be honest, I wouldn’t go there at all by Tube.”
Her last appearance on social media was in September 2016.
She said: “I’ll never marry again. I’ll remain loyal to my husband until my last breath.”
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