- British Jihadist Sally Jones was killed by a U.S. drone strike while fleeing Raqqa's ISIS stronghold
- Jones converted to Islam joined ISIS with Jihadi hacker lover Junaid Hussain in 2013, taking her 9-year-old son with them
- Jones was allegedly the leader of the secret Anwar al-Awlaki battalion's female wing and trained European female recruits
- Jones' son is believed to have been forced to execute prisoners during his time there
The British jihadist who became known as the White Widow has been killed in a U.S. drone strike while attempting to flee the ISIS capital, it emerged last night.
Onetime punk rocker Sally Jones, 50, fled to Syria with her son in 2013 before becoming a recruiter for ISIS.
She was killed by a Predator missile near the border of Iraq and Syria four months ago as she tried to flee the group's stronghold in Raqqa, it is understood. It was feared her 12-year-old son was being used as a human shield and was also killed in the strike.
Sources said the strike would have been abandoned if it was known the boy, who is not deemed a combatant, would be killed. It remains unclear if he survived the hit.
Jones was a high priority on the Pentagon's 'kill list' because she was believed to have masterminded dozens of terror plots. She was believed to be the leader of the secret Anwar al-Awlaki battalion's female wing. She was said to be responsible for training European female terror recruits.
The Muslim convert fled Britain to join ISIS back in 2013 alongside lover and jihadi hacker Junaid Hussain, taking her then-nine-year-old son JoJo with her.
The 12-year-old boy, now named Hamza, is believed to have been forced to execute prisoners during his time there after being brainwashed by jihadis. A nine-minute ISIS video issued last year appeared to show the boy executing a captured prisoner in a firing squad.
Jones' husband Hussain - who was the leader of the ISIS 'digi-jihad' computer hacking brigade, was killed in 2015 aged 21 in a U.S. drone strike.
After her lover's death, it was thought she received a monthly salary from ISIS of £520 ($688), plus a bonus of more than £200 ($264) every couple of months for being the widow of a "shahid" or martyr.
She is believed to be the sixth Briton killed by drones in Syria, following the likes of Mohammed Emwazi known as "Jihadi John."
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Others killed by drones include Ruhul Amin, from Aberdeen, and Reyaad Khan, from Cardiff, as coalition forces conducted over 500 airstrikes over the summer.
Last year, JoJo's father, who asked not to be named, said his son appeared in an ISIS video showing young boys murdering men in orange jumpsuits.
"He was brilliant, just a normal boy – always chasing bugs, going down the park," the man said. "I have had to block it out. It's been hard, we just have to carry on. It's disgusting he's been brainwashed."
While in Raqqa, JoJo was believed to have been brainwashed by ISIS and taught lessons in martial arts training, firearms and radical Islam.
His name was changed to Hamza and he was forced to call Hussain, his mother's husband, "dad."
Friends and relatives spoke of their utter grief at being separated from JoJo when he vanished with Jones and the trauma of discovering what he was forced into doing.
They told how the little boy once called them from Syria but was prevented from speaking freely by his mother who stood beside him.
"I felt sick to the stomach," his grandmother told a friend after seeing the barbaric images of her grinning grandson moments before he shot the prisoner in the back of the head.
Relatives described JoJo as a happy little boy who loved reading encyclopedias and adored animals so much that "he'd never even tread on an ant."
Major General Chip Chapman, the former MoD head of counter-terror, said Jones would have been a "significant" target as a result of her alliance with Hussain and her role in recruiting ISIS fighters.
Referring to reports her son was killed in the strike, he added, "It is a difficult one because under the U.N. Charters he is under the age of what we would classify as a soldier."
"Even if he got up to really bad things, he shouldn't have been targeted. We don't know for sure whether he was with her or not."
In July a friend said Jones was desperate to return to the U.K. but she was apparently being forced to stay by her husband's comrades.
"Aisha," the wife of another ISIS fighter, said, "She was crying and wants to get back to Britain but ISIS is preventing her because she is now a military wife. She told me she wished to go to her country."
Jones had used her Twitter account to spread propaganda for the group, and tweeted of her wish to behead a Western prisoner in Syria and behead Christians with a "blunt knife."
According to the Counter-Extremism Project, Jones issued terror threats against Britain as recently as May 2016.
She has previously called on Muslim women to launch attacks during Ramadan in London, Glasgow, and Wales. Jones even threatened one of the Navy SEALs who helped kill Osama bin Laden.
The Government last night said it did not comment on national security operations.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
