Six more ISIS brides and their children could land in Australia within days after the Syrian government allowed the group to start making travel arrangements.
There are 18 Australian passport holders remaining at the notorious Al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria after a group of four wives of Islamic State terrorists and their nine children landed in Sydney and Melbourne earlier this month, sparking anger at the Labor government for allowing them to return.
Of the remaining ISIS family members, one woman cannot enter Australia for two years due to an exclusion order, but the other six brides and their children are expected to arrive as early as next week, The Australian reported.
The Syrian government and Kurdish authorities which control the camp made an agreement on repatriations due to pressure from the US State Department, and Syrian officials attempted to take the group out of Al-Roj this week before the transfer was temporarily halted by the Kurds.
Funds from relatives have now been released to cover bookings of flights from Damascus to Australia, sources said, and the group was originally scheduled to arrive next Tuesday night, an Islamic holiday.
It is unclear whether any of the remaining brides will face charges after arrival.
Three of the women who arrived on May 7 – Kawsar Abbas, 53, her daughter Zeinab Ahmad, 31, and Janai Safar, 32, were arrested after landing and were remanded in custody after being denied bail.
Abbas has been charged with crimes against humanity – enslavement, possessing a slave, using a slave, and engaging in slave trading, Ahmad with crimes against humanity – enslavement and using a slave, and Safar with entering a declared area, and being a member of a terrorist organisation.
Wild scenes at Melbourne Airport as a supporter of an ISIS bride says “shut up you slut” to a female reporter after she asked the radical Islamist why she married a terrorist.
One journalist said she was punched in the stomach.
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The fourth woman, Zahra Ahmad, Zeinab’s sister and the second wife of dead ISIS recruiter Muhammad Zahab, was met at Melbourne Airport by a large group of aggressive black-clad Muslim males who called female TV reporters “sluts” and punched one in the stomach as they rushed her out of the terminal.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has repeatedly denied that the Australian government has facilitated the return of the ISIS brides, but has faced criticism for allowing them to obtain passports and not doing more to prevent them from entering the country.
A poll in February found that 64% of voters opposed allowing the wives and family members of ISIS terrorists to return to Australia, with just 15% in support.
Some of the brides and children have spent time in a different refugee camp, Al-Hol, a radicalisation hub where jihadist women hid teenage boys in tunnels and sexually abused them to get pregnant., and concerns have been raised about the risk of terror in the wake of the ISIS-inspired Bondi Islamic terrorist attack.
Header image: Left, Australian citizen ISIS brides pose with AK-47s in Syria in 2015 (Facebook). Right, Australian ISIS brides leaving the camp earlier this year (Dicle News Agency).
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