Seventeen women living in America have now been linked to ISIS or al-Qaida since last year, including
California mass-killing shooter Tashfeen Malik, according to the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism.
Oren Segal, director of the
Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism and Research, tweeted out a list of 16 other women allegedly involved with overseas jihadists, noting Malik — killed along with her husband Syed Farook after the carnage that left 14 dead in San Bernardino last week — would make 17.
The Daily Caller reports the list includes:
- Jaelyn De'Shaun Young: arrested with her husband in August for providing material support to ISIS.
- Keonna Thomas: arrested in April after she planned to go to Syria through Spain o join ISIS; she'd been in contact with an ISIS fighter.
- Asia Siddiqui and Noelle Valentzas: arrested in April after FBI investigators uncovered a plot to set off explosives in New York City.
- Sedina Unkic Hodzic: arrested husband, Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, in St. Louis County, Mo., in February after authorities said the Bosnian immigrants sent money to ISIS and Nusra Front, an al-Qaida affiliated group.
- Mediha Medy Salkicevic and Jasminka Ramic: indicted along with the Hodzics for sending military goods to ISIS fighters in Syria. The pair lived outside Chicago.
- Muna Jama and Hinda Osman Dhirane: arrested in July in Virginia and charged with providing material support to al-Shabab, another al-Qaida group, since 2011.
- Shannon Conley: arrested in April 2014 at the Denver International Airport before she could board a flight to Syria, where she planned to join a 32-year-old ISIS fighter she met online.
- Heather Coffman: arrested in November 2014 for making false statements to FBI agents about pro-ISIS Facebook posts and conversations.
- Hoda Muthana: an Alabama college student who reportedly flew to Syria in April to join ISIS.
- Three underage teen girls in Denver, two of Somali descent and the third of Sudanese descent, were apprehended in Germany while trying to fly to Syria to join ISIS. They were returned to their U.S. families.
NBC reports Attorney General Loretta Lynch revealed that investigators also are looking into Rafia Farook, Malik's mother-in-law, after discovering 15 pipe bombs and other weaponry in the Redlands, California house she shared with her son and his wife.
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