Khaled Sharrouf’s jihadi widow Tara Nettleton posed in disturbing photos promoting life in IS
JIHADI widow Tara Nettleton appeared to love life in the Syrian war zone while her husband was away beheading and shooting Syrian soldiers.
JIHADI widow Tara Nettleton appeared to love life in the Syrian war zone while her husband was away beheading and shooting Syrian soldiers.
She posed on the family’s luxury BMW clad in black and pointing an assault rifle skyward with other jihadi wives and widows.
It was only when Allied forces targeted her husband Khaled Sharrouf in an air strike she suddenly wanted to return to the safe streets of Sydney.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is facing calls from her mother Karen to allow the jihadi widow and her five children to return to Australia.
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“My daughter made the mistake of a lifetime. They want to come home,” Karen Nettleton said.
Mr Abbott has said Nettleton would face “the full severity” of the law if she re-entered the country.
A Muslim convert, Nettleton posed in the disturbing photo with fellow widow Zehra Duman and her eldest daughter Zaynab promoting life in war-torn Syria earlier this year.
The former Chester Hill High School student, who had her eldest child with Sharrouf at 17, left Australia for Islamic State last year.
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Nettleton flew to Malaysia with her mother and the five children and stayed with Sharrouf’s relatives before they flew to Turkey and crossed the border into Syria.
After being reunited with her husband, who was fighting with the ISIS “death cult”, she took the name Umm Zarqawi — meaning wife of Sharrouf’s nom de guerre, Abu Zarqawi.
Her 14-year-old daughter became Umm Hafs after marrying her dad’s best mate and fellow fighter Mohamed Elomar, known as Abu Hafs, in March.
Umm Zarqawi, one of the older foreign jihadi wives, has also appeared in a photo showing her aiming an AK-47. The photos appeared on accounts linked to the Sharrouf family.
“Chillin in the khilafah, lovin life,’’ the March Twitter post said.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal the Sharroufs and their children kept in contact with relatives in Australia through social media accounts, including Twitter.
Images on social media showed the Sharrouf children playing with grenades and AK-47s left in the loungeroom.
In another photo shared by Zaynab and Duman, two of Sharrouf’s sons sit in front of an IS flag wearing camouflage and AK-47s.
“Our kids put your ‘men’ to shame,” Duman said.
Zaynab also posted photos of her young brother and a Yazidi slave child kneeling next to AK-47s: “Young cubs of ISIS, may Allah protect them from all evil.”
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