Simon Cottee

The warped world of the British Isis fugitive Tooba Gondal​

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Tooba Gondal, a notorious female Isis recruiter from Britain, was until Sunday a captive in the Ain Issa camp in north-eastern Syria. Now that the camp has fallen amid the chaos that is unfolding in the region, she is free again, as are hundreds of the other foreign denizens of the camp she was housed with.

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Simon Cottee
Simon Cottee is a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. His latest book, Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalisation, is out with Routledge

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