BRITAINS MOST WANTED! BRITISH JIHADISTS SLAMMED WITH US SANCTION

Four British jihadists who have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State have been hit with UN sanctions.

The list includes: Sally Jones from Chatham, in Kent, Aqsa Mahmood from Glasgow, Nasser Muthana from Cardiff and Nasser Muthana from Cardiff. Under the UN's al Qaeda sanctions regime, the jihadists will face a global asset freeze and travel ban. It means if they try to cross into another country they are likely to be arrested on the spot.

White convert Jones, 46, also known as ‘Mrs Terror’ since she abandoned her family in Chatham, Kent to marry Junaid Hussain, 21, and join IS in Syria. Her husband was killed in a US airstrike in August.

She now calls herself Umm Hussain Britaniya and attempts to recruit terrorists using social media.

Also on the list is privately educated Aqsa Mahmood, 20, who travelled to Syria two years ago to marry an IS fighter and told her parents she would die a ‘martyr’ and would see them on the ‘day of judgment’. She is believed to be a key figure in the al Khanssaa brigade, a female brigade in Raqqa, which was established by the militants to enforce Sharia law.

A third on the list is former medical student Nasser Muthana, 20, from Cardiff. Believed to have moved to Syria in 2013, he has appeared in IS propaganda and recruitment videos. He is suspected of involvement in a death squad, which beheaded Syrian soldiers. In a chilling message online, he threatened to use his terror ‘skills’ when he returns to the UK to carry out an atrocity.

Last on the list is former Morrison’s security guard Omar Hussain, 27, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He appeared in an IS propaganda video urging the West to send troops to fight IS, vowing: ‘We’ll send them back one by one in coffins.’ Hussain once appeared on BBC’s Newsnight saying: ‘I hate the UK, the only reason why I would intend to return to the UK is when I want to come and plant a bomb somewhere.’

A Government spokeswoman said: "The Prime Minister has been absolutely clear that we will do all we can to stop British citizens from going to fight for ISIL (another name for IS) and that foreign fighters should face consequences for their actions.

"As well as the domestic measures we have introduced, such as the power to seize passports, these sanctions are a powerful tool - freezing an individual's assets and imposing a global travel ban on them. It sends a clear deterrent message to those thinking of going to fight for ISIL."

It is the first time the Government has revealed which of the 700 Britons thought to have travelled to Syria pose the biggest threat to the UK because of their attempts to foment terror in the UK. It is also the first time since 2006 that the Government has sought to subject British nationals to the UN sanctions regime.

Detailed dossiers of evidence were submitted to show the suspects were ‘participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities’ related to IS. Among the activities they are accused of is of uploading bomb-making instructions to social media sites. More names are expected to be added to the list in the coming months.

A Downing Street spokesman said David Cameron believed foreign fighters should ‘face consequences’ for their actions. As part of a new push against Islamic State, the Prime Minister has also set up a dedicated arm of the Government’s National Security Council. Chaired by the PM, it will bring together senior ministers including defence secretary Michael Fallon and Home Secretary Theresa May with defence and intelligence chiefs. The move was revealed as Mr Cameron prepared to unveil a £10million counter-propaganda drive designed to counteract jihadists’ use of social media to spread its message. It’s a fightback that will be carried out partly by a unit set up jointly with the US in the Middle East.

Sally Jones

A man believed to be Nasser Muthana