She became pregnant at 16 and married her first husband, James Fluke, in 1996, according to court records. Ekren claimed he removed a box of documents and an electronic device from the compound, and she helped him summarize the records, according to court records. The documents and device were ultimately given to leaders of the terror group Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi, according to court records. Ekren, a leader of snipers for the Islamic State group, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2016 in Tel Abyad, Syria, according to court records. She was arrested two weeks later and held for seven months before being transferred to the U.S. in January 2022, according to court records.

Source: Libya Today November 01, 2022 09:13 UTC