Security agencies tracking last Australian ISIS bride in Syria
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said security agencies were tracking an Australian woman linked to ISIS accused of violently enforcing sharia law in concentration camps in Syria.
Borage Abby is the last known bride of ISIS in Syria.
He was banned from returning to Australia under an interim exclusion order in February; She was one of the only groups of Australian women and children.
However, he was given permission to return after the order was rescinded last month.
Mr Burke said on Monday that there was “a reason why only one person would cross the threshold for a deportation order” and that “our institutions will have full attention” if Ms Abby went to Australia.
“Our agencies are aware of his location but of course he may well be fine as he has seen some returnees being arrested on arrival at the airport,” he told the ABC’s News Breakfast.
“He’d be weighing up the different things he’s done and making a decision about whether or not he’s going to come back.”
Regardless, he said, investigators “will continue to gather evidence.”
“Sometimes people get arrested at the airport,” Mr. Burke said.
“Sometimes…after they arrived, we continued to gather additional evidence and then there were arrests.”
Abby gained a reputation as an ISIS enforcer during her time in the Kurdish-controlled al-Roj detention camp in northeastern Syria, ABC reported, citing sources at the camp.
In one violent incident, he allegedly hit another woman with a hammer.
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