THIS is the moment notorious Brit ISIS recruit Shamima Begum storms out of her first face-to-face interview in years.
She appeared “pale and thin” during a fiery chat at her new home for the exiled foreign women of Isis, in Syria.
The ExpressShamima Begum, 26, stormed out of an explosive interview with the Daily Express[/caption]
The ExpressGoing on camera with British reporters for the first time in two years, the notorious Isis bride look pale and thin[/caption]
BBC supplied by Pixel8000Begum fled to Syria in 2015 to join the terror group as a 15-year-old[/caption]
The infamous Jihadi bride, now 26, was born and raised in Bethnal Green, in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets.
But in 2015, she travelled to Syria to join the terrorists’ ranks – at the age of just 15.
After 10 days Begum became a child bride to a Dutch Islamic convert, with who she had three children who all died as infants.
The Conservative government stripped her of British citizenship in 2019, rendering her stateless, and she has desperately fought to return here to her family.
A documentary maker travelled to meet Begum for The Sun at the al-Roj detention camp in January this year, but she swore furiously at him and refused to go on camera.
This time, however, she agreed to meet face-to face with the Daily Express.
She reportedly stormed out of the room after being asked to simple questions, abruptly cutting the agreed interview short.
Reform leader Nigel Farage recently revealed he had become “thoughtful” about whether Begum should be allowed back into the country, after Donald Trump suggested Britain would have to do it.
Farage added: “I don’t classify her as all-out Isis killer.”
When reporters put these comments to Begum, she bluntly told the Express: “No comment.”
And asked if she thought Trump could open the door for her return to the UK, she gave the same answer.
Begum then burst out with: “If you guys have anything to tell us but we don’t have anything to say,” before flouncing out.
The al-Roj camp is dedicated to detaining foreign-born women and children who were captured after Isis was defeated by US, British and coalition forces in 2019.
Around 2,000 people have been held there – with seven or eight women from the UK currently caged between its walls, including Begum.
AFPBegum met reporters at the al-Roj camp, where relatives of people suspected of belonging to ISIS are held, in al-Malikiyah, northern Syria[/caption]
BBCBegum was last pictured in 2023, when she participated in a controversial BBC interview[/caption]
Filmmaker Alan Duncan approached her tent earlier this year, but was told to ‘get the f*ck out’
She spoke from the camp’s antechamber, where detainees are allowed to meet journalists.
Begum swept into the room arm-in-arm with her camp buddy, American Hoda Muthana.
She was wearing western-style clothes – donning a black graphic t-shirt, light-blue skinny jeans and white trainers.
The former Bethnal Green schoolgirl kept the bottom half of her face covered with a Covid mask as she sat down.
Who is Shamima Begum?
ISIS bride Shamima Begum, who was born in Britain, was stripped of her British citizenship on February 20, 2019.
Begum had fled the UK in February 2015 with two other girls from the same school in East London to join the fledgling caliphate in Iraq and Syria which had emerged out of the chaos of war in those two countries.
On February 14, 2019, with the ISIS empire fell, she declared that she wanted to come home with her son.
But she appeared to show no remorse and called the 2017 Manchester Arena massacre of 22 people attending a concert “justified”.
According to BBC Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville, Begum “still believes IS propaganda”.
He said: “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 Iraqis and Syrians whose lives were destroyed by IS.”
Her principled position has sparked intense debate about the UK’s responsibilities to jihadis who despise the country and everything it stands for, but want to return from Syria.
The case took a dramatic turn on February 20 2019 when it emerged the Home Office had opted to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.
The now-16-year-old claims she is “willing to change” her ways while pleading for “mercy” from Britain and says newborn son Jerah is sick.
Her appeals against the decision have all been denied.
Her eyes appeared somewhat sunken, and she looked pale and very thin.
It was the first time Begum had been pictured since a controversial BBC interview in 2023.
But the interview was short-lived – with pal Muthana jumping to her feet after catching sight of the camera, and Begum following swiftly after her.
Muthana ran away from her home in Alabama at the age of 20 to join the Islamic State group.
She also had a child with one of its fighters and is desperate to get back to the US.
Shamima Begum previously pictured at camp al-Roj in SyriaGetty