The Girls of Jihad Strike Again

Back in November, I reported on the troubling trend of Western women traveling to Syria to join ISIS and become part of the Islamic State. Now come new reports that three teenage girls have left Britain with intentions of heading to Syria and marrying ISIS jihadists.

Here's more, from the Daily Mail:

Scotland Yard was facing questions over how the girls – aged 15 and 16 – were able to board a flight to Turkey unchallenged, despite having no parent or guardian with them.

They are now believed to be travelling overland to Syria to marry jihadi fighters. But police hope heavy snowfall may have prevented them from travelling all the way.

Last night there were growing calls to tighten up security checks on youngsters flying out of the UK. Up to 550 young Britons are thought to have made the journey to join Islamic State.

It is understood the three girls – all straight-A pupils – were lured to Syria via social media by a school friend who is already there.

Last night detectives took the unprecedented step of releasing the names and CCTV images of the girls – who attend the same East London school – in an attempt to save them from the clutches of IS fighters.

Good luck. In my new book, ISIS Exposed (due out March 9 and available for pre-order here at Amazon.com), I delve into the dark world of the "women of jihad." ISIS is recruiting vulnerable Western women online, and particularly misguided teenage girls.

As I reveal in the book, dozens of women from France, Germany, and Britain, respectively, have gone to Syria and at least a handful of American women have joined them. ISIS wants to pair them as jihadi brides to their fighters and help build up the caliphate society--after all, you need women to build a state and reproduce future terrorists.

And some women will look to take up arms. They are every bit as fanatical as male jihadists--as we've seen with the female Chechen and Dagestani suicide bombers known as the Black Widows.

Click play below to watch my recent report on ISIS's jihadi brides, including the tale of a suburban Denver teenager who converted to Islam and was drawn into the dark world of ISIS online: