Teenage girl becomes youngest ISIS terrorist to be convicted in Britain

Britain has convicted an 18-year-old girl after they found out that she had been planning and plotting an attack on London with the first all-women Islamic State cell.

Safaa Boular, plotted the grenade and gun attack in her hometown after the authorities intervened to stop her from traveling to Syria to marry an ISIS terrorist she had met online.

She is the youngest female to be charged with planning an IS attack in Britain.

Reports say that she was bullied during her childhood by strangers because of her Islamic dress.She became interested in terrorism after the Paris attacks in 2015 and wanted to know why would people do it.

Soon after shegot in touch with a woman through Twitter who painted the caliphate as a world where “everyone was equal”. In no time, Safaa accumulated hundreds of ISIS contacts and through them met Naweed Hussain, a British-born Islamic State militants in Raqqa.

Boular was only 16 when she made contact with British-born ISIS terrorist Naweed Hussain, 32, discussing marriage and how they would don his-and-hers suicide belts.

But her hopes of joining him were dashed when she was stopped at the airport in August 2016 following a family trip to Morocco, and her passport was confiscated.

Hussain was later killed in a drone strike.

Afterwards, Boular decided to plan an attack in Britain, detailing it in coded language -- grenades were "pineapples" -- to online contacts who were, in fact,t undercover agents.

When Boular was charged with preparing terrorist acts in April 2017, she passed the baton to her sister Rizlaine, 22, and their mother Mina Dich, 44, who hatched their own plan.

The trio was taped talking about an Alice in Wonderland-themed tea party, which the prosecution argued was code for an attack.

Rizlaine and her mother were arrested after being tracked by police visiting potential sites around Westminster and buying knives.

Safaa had consistently denied two charges of planning to travel to Syria for ISIS activity and engaging in preparations for terror attacks on iconic landmarks in London including, most notably, the British Museum. But the jury found her guilty of both charges, making her Britain’s youngest convicted female Islamic State terrorist.

(With inputs from AFP)