Australian jihadi bride Zehra Duman’s terror taunt after playboy husband Mahmoud Abdullatif dies
Geoff Chambers
The Daily Telegraph
January 27, 2015 12:00AM
Jihadist widow Zehra Duman / Picture: Supplied
THE Australian Jihadi bride who fled to Syria to marry her playboy terrorist lover has taunted authorities and Islamic State enemies telling them to “catch me if you can”.
On a social media account linked to Melbourne woman Zehra Duman, the 21-year-old posted new photos of her slain husband Mahmoud Abdullatif. Abdullatif was reportedly killed fighting with IS last weekend. “A few days before he attained shahadah. Was so excited to see the snow! Lol. Oh how I miss you, may Allah reunite us,” Umm Abdullatif said. The post shows Abdullatif standing on a roadside covered in snow, holding up a weapon.
In a separate post, a photo appears to show a woman holding an assault rifle, with a knife at her feet.
“Catch me if you can,” she said.
Mahmoud Abdullatif / Picture: Supplied
Duman is understood to be based in Raqqa, where her husband and friend Suhan Rahman posed in photos with notorious Sydney terrorist Mohamed Elomar. The number of Australians involved in the Syrian conflict, has now increased to approximately 90, up from 75 last year.
Security agencies have recorded a trend showing more Australian women, including Duman, travelling to Syria to marry jihadists and fight under the IS banner.
Up to 30 Australian women have travelled to the war-torn region to join their terrorist partners or marry Islamic State fighters.
Taleb al Australi — a friend of Abdullatif — shared a photo of Abdullatif with an assault rifle leaning on his shoulder.
Abdullatif, 23, married Duman last month, offering a gun as part of the wedding dowry.
“Rejoice O Graves, and the Doors of Paradise open up for this martyr…,” he posted on Sunday.
More foreign Jihadi brides have been taking to Twitter in recent months, posting updates on their husbands’ activities and promoting Islamic State propaganda.
Two Australian-Somali women — aged 20 and 18 — left Sydney last month reportedly to marry Islamic State fighters or Mujahid.
Amira Karroum — who attended the prestigious St Hilda’s school on the Gold Coast — was killed last year after she travelled with husband Yusuf Ali to Syria.
The pair had joined the Al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra group before their murders.
