Shamima Begum says Manchester bombing that killed 22 was JUSTIFIED and reveals she wanted son to be ISIS fighter

REMORSELESS jihadi bride Shamima Begum today gloated how the Manchester bombing which killed 22  people was "justified" retaliation for Syria air strikes.

The ISIS Briton told BBC News she was a “poster girl for ISIS recruitment” and said that she wanted her first son to become a terrorist.

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Shamima Begum has given an interview to the BBC

Asked about the Manchester terror attack, she told the broadcaster in an interview aired today: "I do feel that it's wrong that innocent people did get killed.

"It's one thing to kill a soldier that is fighting you; it's self-defence, but to kill women and children..."

Begum said it was "just people like the women and children in Baghuz that are being killed right now unjustly, the bombings.

"It's a two-way thing really. Because women and children are being killed in Islamic State right now, and it's a kind of retaliation... their justification was it's retaliation so I thought 'OK, that is a fair justification."

The 19-year-old said, however, that she felt "regret" for the attack, where 22 innocent lives were lost on May 2017 at the Manchester Arena at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.

On the , the teen said she was aware she had been “used for propaganda”, but that had not been her intention, to inspire others to follow her to Syria.

She said: “I didn’t want to be on the news. I heard there were a lot of people who were encouraged [by her going overseas]."

Asked whether she had been inspired to leave Britain after watching gruesome footage of beheadings, Begum replied that she had seen those and had been encouraged by scenes depicting a "good life" with the terror group.

She has also revealed that she is ready to be imprisoned should she and her newborn son be allowed to return to the UK.

Begum told the broadcaster that she is seeking the UK's forgiveness, as, "I actually do support some British values."

Speaking with BBC Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville, the ISIS supporter said that she does NOT have a UK passport, as she used her sister’s passport to cross into Syria in 2015.

Begum added that after it was taken from her, she never saw the document again – and she doesn’t hold a Bangladesh passport.

According to Sommerville's Twitter account, the teen said she "still has sympathy for the [terror] group and equated its crimes to coalition airstrikes against the extremist group".

He also revealed that she "watched videos of the murders of British hostages, but when asked, said she didn’t know the names of any of the victims".

The jihadi bride also said that despite being just 15 years old when she left her family in the UK to flee to Syria and join ISIS, "she knew what she was doing, and was capable of making her own decisions".

Sommerville tweeted: "Throughout the interview she held her 2 day old son Jarrar.

"He's named after her first son who died while she was in the caliphate.

"She says she would have let her first son become an IS fighter. Now wants her boy 'to be British'."

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Begum also discussed watching propaganda videos put out by the terror group, along with al-Qaeda-lined groups.

Sommerville said that she knew "of the IS-inspired attacks in Manchester and elsewhere, but hadn't realised women and children were killed."

Worryingly, the teen "still believes IS propaganda", says the BBC correspondent, adding, "when I asked her about the enslavement, murder and rape of Yazidi women by IS, she said 'Shia do the same in Iraq.

"She had little to offer in way of apology to the millions of Iraquis and Syrians whose lives were destroyed by IS."

During the wide-ranging interview, Begum left momentarily to “feed her two day old baby boy”, tweets Sommerville.

He added: “He is under her abbaya [full-length outer garment]. She says she hopes her family will gain custody of him if she is imprisoned.”

In an interview at the weekend with Sky News, Begum said she had “a good time” in Syria – and insisted horrific beheadings are "okay as Islamically, that is allowed”.

The teen jihadi also said that while she had no regrets about living with the terror group, she had to leave as the caliphate was under attack and her "situation got difficult".

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interviewed the 19-year-old “hours” after she gave birth to her third child, a boy, in a Syrian refugee camp, as she repeated her contentious wish to return to the UK.

Asked about conditions while living amidst fellow jihadis, after running away from Britain with two schoolmates to Syria in early 2015, she said “it was nice” at first.

Begum initially found life among the terrorists was “like how they showed it in the [propaganda] videos, like, ‘come, make a family together’.”

But, life got tougher for her, as the teen explained that “things got harder, you know. When we lost Raqqa, we had to keep moving and moving. The situation got difficult.”

This prompted her to have second thoughts about life among the militants, particularly after the death of her first son – and she “realised” she had to escape.

Despite the difficulties, she told Sky News that she had no regrets about living among ISIS, as she was “living under Islamic law” and was thus able to “have your own family, do anything”.

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Because of a lack of funds, the teen said it would be a stretch to care for her baby at the refugee camp, explaining, “For people without money, it's hard to get around with the amount of things they give us.”

Begum said that while she’s “not starving”, she does have a roof over her head – “whereas before I was sleeping outside”.

She also says she deserves "sympathy" from Britons after giving birth in a Syria refugee camp - even though she doesn't regret joining the barbaric terror group.

The Brit jihadi has been begging to return home to the UK, insisting, "I was just a housewife."

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Begum also claims she "never did anything dangerous" and whined how "I can't live in this camp forever."

The runaway schoolgirl said she wasn't fazed by seeing severed heads in the bin, claiming it "made her stronger."

And speaking to  while sitting next to her newborn son, she said people "should have sympathy towards me for everything I have been through".

The ISIS bride added: "I didn't know what I was getting into when I left.

"I was hoping that maybe for the sake of me and my child they'd let me come back.

"Because I can't live in this camp forever, it's just not possible.

"When I went to Syria I was just a housewife for the entire four years. I never did anything dangerous. I never made propaganda. I never encouraged people to come to Syria."

The teen said her husband had no idea about her third baby as she doesn't know where he is.

ISIS bride Shamima Begum 'rushed to hospital with contractions' - but she fears baby could be taken away from her

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DESPERATE TO COME HOME

Begum was found by a Times journalist last week in a refugee camp.

The teen, who has called herself "weak" for wanting to return to her home country, had previously given birth to two children who died from malnutrition.

She told The Times she didn't regret joining the murderous cult but is now desperate to return home and have her baby with the support of the NHS.

The Jihadi bride said: "I'm scared this baby is going to get sick in this camp. That's why I really want to get back to Britain. Because I know it will be taken care of, health wise at least."

The Press Association reports that her family's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said he anticipated that she would face criminal proceedings upon any return to the UK.

But he said it was the family's hope that she would be given professional help following her experience in Syria.

He told BBC Breakfast on Monday: "The family have gone out of their way from day one to try to get her away from the IS narrative and the context which she finds herself in.

"She's been there for four years and we would be surprised if she hadn't been further damaged beyond the degree she had already been groomed into.

"The family are concerned, as they have been for the last four years, not just to get her away, but, as of yesterday, to make sure that their grandchild – her child – is not influenced by that sort of thinking."

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FLED TO ISIS IN 2015

Begum left London in February 2015 with two school friends to follow another classmate to Syria.

She said one friend, Kadiza Sultana, had died in an airstrike but the other Bethnal Green girls, Amira Abase and Sharmeena Begum, had stayed with ISIS in Baghuz.

The ISIS bride said she feared she will never see her husband, the Dutch jihadist Yago Riedijk again, whom she still loved “very much”.

Riedijk, 26, a convert to Islam who grew up in a middle-class family home in Arnhem, is suspected by police of being involved in a terrorist plot in the Netherlands.

He was convicted in his absence last year of membership of a terrorist group.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid has warned he "will not hesitate" to prevent the return of Britons who travelled to join ISIS, but Justice Secretary David Gauke told Sky News "we can't make people stateless".

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Deradicalised former Jihadi bride, Tania Joy, believes it’s possible for Shamima Begum to be integrated back into UK society

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