British runaway schoolgirl, 16, MARRIES Australian ISIS fanatic dubbed the 'Ginger Jihadi' in Syria – as her new husband tells MoS the terror group are 'itching to attack' the UK and praises Tunisia beach gunman
- Amira Abase travelled to Syria with two school friends from East London
- She has married the Australian extremist, 18-year-old Abdullah Elmir
- He bragged IS wouldn't stop until their flag flies over Buckingham Palace
- Elmir has threatened that his 'brothers in the UK are itching to attack'
Jihadi bride: Amira Abase, pictured last September - five months before she fled Britain, has married notorious Islamic State terrorist the 'Ginger Jihadi'
A British teenager who fled to Syria has married a notorious Islamic State terrorist, who sent a chilling message to The Mail on Sunday threatening attacks on Britain.
Amira Abase, 16 – who travelled to Syria with two other school friends from East London – has married Australian extremist Abdullah Elmir.
He has bragged that IS would not stop their murderous campaign until their flag was flying over Buckingham Palace.
Police have now launched an urgent investigation after the radicalised fighter sent a horrific warning to this newspaper that supporters of the terror group are ‘itching to do an attack’ on targets in London.
Dubbed the ‘Ginger Jihadi’ because of his long red hair, 18-year-old Elmir became a poster boy for the Islamic State after he fled his home city of Sydney last year, and later turned up in Syria, appearing in sick propaganda videos.
One of the youngest Western fighters to have joined the group, he sent a message to The Mail on Sunday following our exclusive investigation into Abase, who we exposed last week as trying to lure an undercover reporter to Syria to become a jihadi bride like herself.
Elmir confirmed that he has married the British schoolgirl, who was only 15 when she travelled to Syria via Turkey earlier this year, and told us not to contact her again.
Boasting of his ‘connections’ in Britain, he warned of attacks against the UK as ‘brothers that I know there… are itching to do an attack.’
He added: ‘This is a direct threat.’
Elmir also callously mocked the massacre of 38 tourists by an IS-inspired gunman on a beach in Tunisia last month, urging Allah to ‘bless’ murderer Seifeddine Rezgui for carrying out the attack.
Communicating through an encrypted text message service called Kik, Elmir said: ‘And on the Tunisia attacks, May Allah bless the man who slaughtered those filthy kuffar [infidels] and May Allah grant him the highest level in Jannah [Paradise].
‘May the kuffar that this man killed taste the heat of Jahannam [hell] and their families be reunited with them in there.’
Elmir’s comments came as the Foreign Office last week warned the remaining 3,000 Britons to leave Tunisia amid increasing fears of repeat attacks on Western tourists. The terror threat level in Britain remains severe – meaning an attack is highly likely.
Counter-terrorism officers from the Metropolitan Police are investigating the threat by Elmir. The Mail on Sunday is not publishing the full details for security reasons.
Hatred: Abdullah Elmir, 18, dubbed the 'Ginger Jihadi' for his long red hair, has confirmed their marriage and warned that supporters of the terror group are ‘itching to do an attack’ on targets in London
Last week this newspaper how revealed schoolgirl Abase was trying to groom other young people to flee Britain and join Islamic State.
Communicating via Kik messages with a reporter who was posing as a 16-year-old girl from East London, Abase gave instructions on how to travel to Syria as she had done, and suggested the reporter could become the second wife of a Western jihadi.
Call to arms: Elmir in a propaganda video vowing to fly the IS flag over Buckingham Palace
Abase declined to confirm whether she was married herself, but now it appears she was trying to persuade a young girl to marry a man who fits the description of her own husband.
Her description of the groom as being aged 18, and half-Lebanese and half-Australian and a ‘frontline fighter’ matched that of Elmir.
She said: ‘Hes born muslim, not Asian thow [sic], hes half Lebanese and half Australian.’
When asked why the groom wanted a second wife, Abase replied: ‘I dunno, to provide for her [first wife] ext [extra].’
During the exchanges with the undercover reporter on Kik, Abase also mocked the British victims of the Tunisian massacre.
She wrote ‘lol’, which means ‘laugh out loud,’ when she was told that 30 Britons had died in the atrocity. Abase is now thought to be living in Raqqa, capital of the self-proclaimed Islamic caliphate, with Elmir, who made headlines worldwide last October after travelling from Australia to Syria.
Elmir was working as a butcher in Sydney when he suddenly disappeared. Having arrived in Syria, he appeared in an IS video wearing military fatigues and flanked by dozens of armed fighters, boasting: ‘Until we put the black flag [of IS] on top of Buckingham Palace, until we put the black flag on top of the White House, we will not stop, and will keep on fighting.’ He also dared Western leaders to send their troops to Syria for a ground war with the terror group, which now controls swathes of territory across Iraq and Syria, and commands the loyalty of affiliated terror groups in Africa and beyond.
Former school mates at Condell Park High School have described Elmir as a ‘reserved and ‘easy-going’ pupil, and never suspected that he would turn out to be an extremist.
His family, who live in the multi-cultural suburb of Bankstown in western Sydney, refused to comment on the videos at the time. But an unnamed relative later described Elmir as ‘an idiot’ who had been brainwashed by IS. This weekend, the family of Abase declined to comment on the revelation that she has married Elmir.
But a source close to the family said they believed that she was married in March, but did not know to whom.
Last night, Charlie Winter, a senior researcher at the counter-extremist think-tank The Quilliam Foundation, said marriages between such young people were not uncommon in the Islamic State. ‘Islamic State permits a girl to be married from the age of nine, but it appears for them the ideal ages [to be married] are between 15 and 19.
‘A girl can in theory stay unmarried there, but it is not the done thing, and staying unmarried does not fit into the vision of many of the girls who go there.
‘They go to marry a jihadi warrior and have their children.
Escape: Amira Abase, pictured with Bethnal Green Academy friends, Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, as they walked through Gatwick Airport on Feburary 17
‘I don’t think Elmir himself groomed Amira to go to Syria, but it might have been another woman. It appears that women groom other women, as it is considered impious for a man to contact a woman before she has migrated to Syria.’
Born in Ethiopia, Abase spent time in Britain and Germany before her family settled in East London when she was 11.
A bright pupil who passed three GCSEs in maths and science early at age 14, she attended Bethnal Green Academy where she became friends with Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16.
But the three girls became the subject of an international manhunt after leaving Britain for Syria in February, having flown out of Gatwick Airport to Istanbul.
They then made an 18-hour bus journey to the border town of Gaziantep in eastern Turkey. Their families made a tearful appeal on national television, urging them to come back – including Abase’s father, Abase Hussen, 47, who blamed police and the girls’ school for doing very little to protect or stop his daughter from leaving the UK.
But two months after Abase’s disappearance, a video emerged on the internet, which showed Mr Hussen at an extremist rally in 2012 outside the US embassy in London.
Mr Hussen was part of a flag-burning mob in the demo organised by hate preacher Anjem Choudary.
In April, Mr Hussen admitted taking his daughter to an extremist rally when she was 13, and conceded that the teenager may have been influenced by the demonstration.
In messages to The Mail on Sunday, the schoolgirl drew a bleak picture of what happens to a Western jihadi bride when she enters Syria for the first time.
She told how the foreign women are met at the border by armed jihadis and taken into women-only safe houses called maqqars where they remain confined for weeks, and deprived of communication with the outside world until they choose a husband.
She said: ‘When u first come in to dawla [IS territory] ur put in to a sisters house but u cant go out, no net and no phone allowed.’
And from her messages it appears that life for a jihadi bride is not much better, as she explains that a woman has to seek the permission of her husband before she can go out, or attend school.
A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed their investigation into Amira Abase’s location in Syria was continuing.
Pose: Elmir was working as a butcher in Sydney when he suddenly disappeared and later arrived in Syria
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