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Shamima Begum's most chilling confessions from heads in bins to 'dumb kid' mistake
ISIS bride Shamima Begum had a journalist feeling sorry for her until she spoke about her late kids and Russia's war on Ukraine.Begum defended her previous comments about being unfazed by seeing decapitated heads in bins, joining ISIS as just a "dumb kid" and asking for Primark underwear.Journalist and filmmaker Andrew Drury got friendly and even hugged the 23-year-old who fled east London for a life of terror as a teenager in 2015.READ MORE: Shamima Begum was smuggled into Syria by a Canadian spy, classified files revealAndrew said: "In our first talks together ­Shamima told me: 'I don’t think I was a terrorist, I think I was just a dumb kid who made one mistake.'"When asked about her relaxed comments about seeing beheaded human heads in bins, Shamima told Andrew: "People need to understand that at that time, when I was doing all those interviews, I had just come out of a war zone, lost two kids, and I was pregnant.” After they met at Al-Roj camp in north east Syria, Shamima continued to send Andrew Whatsapp messages and even put in clothing requests for him to bring her when he visited again.Her image of a bereaved young mum caught in a desperate situation crumbled as far as Andrew was concerned, the moment she spoke on putting the death of her three children behind her.Andrew said he received a WhatsApp message from Shamima out of the blue and he replied commenting on the awful loss of each of her kids.He said: "She replied: 'If you [sic] makes you feel any better I’ve moved on from that part of my life. It doesn’t make me feel sad any more.'"The reply floored me.
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Primark-loving ISIS bride Shamima Begum makes new plea for UK return
ISIS bride Shamima Begum has pleaded with UK officials for a return to the UK – and it's mainly down to her love of Primark.Begun, who fled the country to join the terror group in Syria aged 15 in 2015, has claimed that she wants to become a “voice against radicalisation” should she be allowed to come back home.Begum was speaking from the Al-Roj prison camp in north-east Syria.READ MORE: ISIS nurse begs to come home to Australia from Syria as he 'did nothing wrong'She was being interviewed by filmmakers Andrew Drury and Richard Ashmore, in footage given to the i newspaper.Despite the plea, she did admit that she is prepared and expects to spend the rest of her life in Syria.She said: “That’s how I feel and that’s what it looks like.“I want to be as British as possible.“The problem is at the age of being a teenager you’re very arrogant and you don’t listen to people so sometimes you really do have to learn the hard way.“I could be used as an example, like you don’t want to end up like her.“If it stops children making the same mistake that I made of course use me as an example.“Tell the kids ‘don’t be like her, don’t become like her’.”Begum is now holed up in a “de-radicalised” part of the prison with other female prisoners – some of whome are mothers.She no longer wears the Islamic outfits she was forced to wear, donning more British attire of a t-shirt, leggings and sunglasses.She loves British clothes so much that she recently asked for tons of stock from Primark to be flown to her from her former home country.It is not known whether that request was accommodated, however.In February 2019, Begun had her UK citizenship revoked by former Home Secretary Sajid Javid.This was upheld by current Home Secretary Priti Patel
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Louis Theroux reveals his dream interview is 'a regretful Jihadi like Shamima Begum'
Shamima Begum.The documentary maker, 51, wants to grill her on her time with the terrorist group and her regrets.He told the Daily Star Sunday: “ISIS is the story I missed when that was going on.“I’d like to interview a bigot who is still signed up to it. Or a regretful Jihadi like Shamima Begum.”Louis has been keen to make a show about ISIS for years.He added: “I tried to get out there in the hope I would be able to interview some of the repentant jihadis and that’s never happened.“I would have interviewed anyone in a position of authority there.”Louis also wants to quiz Hollywood icon Tom Cruise about his involvement with controversial religion Scientology.He said: “I’d love to interview Tom Cruise – only because of my history with Scientology.“I feel as though people are either scared to ask him about it or they feel like it would create an awkward mood.“I just think someone talking to him about what’s really going on in Scientology would be really valid.”This comes weeks after Shamima Begum offered to help Boris Johnson fight terrorism so kids do not repeat her mistakes.Shamima left her family in the UK with two of her friends to join Islamic State in Syria when she was just 15.Three weeks after leaving England and arriving in Syria, Shamima married an IS fighter.Years later, she says that she is reformed and remains hopeful of forgiveness and the chance to return home to London from Syria.In her latest interview with GB News, the now 22-year-old said she thinks she has what it takes to stop others being radicalised by ISIS.When asked if she would share her story, Begum told filmmaker Andrew Drury: "Of course.
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ISIS bride Shamima Begum flogging food parcels to 'afford hair dye and western clothes'
Shamima Begum is selling food parcels to pay for hair dye and western clothes to distance herself from ISIS supporters, a podcast has claimed.The former Bethnal Green schoolgirl has been living in Al-Roj Camp in northeast Syria as she tries to plead her case to reenter the UK but her citizenship was revoked in 2019.Begum has claimed that she has since been trying to stand out from women who continue to support the extremist group and have allegedly threatened her since she publically rejected them.Last year, the now 21-year-old looked rather different in interviews wearing Western clothes with her hair visible and painted nails, wearing jeans and a Nike cap.In an interview with documentary filmmaker, Andrew Drury who has filmed Shamima in the camp, he said: "She's decided to starve herself, not eat food, sell her food packages and parcels and for the money she goes to a shop inside the camp to buy western clothes."I'm not sure the camps are even aware there's a shop there selling western clothes."For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.The revelations came from Global Security Editor for ITV, Rohit Kachroo's new podcast series "Shamima Begum: The Blame Game" after being closely flowing her story for years.Kachroo was the journalist who handed Begum the letter that had been sent to her family to inform her that she had been stripped of her British citizenship.The podcast charts Begum’s journey into Syria in 2015 and hears from Richard Walton, the former head of Scotland Yard's counter-terror command who led the police investigation into her disappearance.Walton claims he lead “a textbook investigation” and denies that faster action by
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