Samra Kesinovic: ISIS Teenage ‘Poster Girl’ Beaten When Trying To Escape


ISIS teenage “poster girl” Samra Kesinovic, 17, was beaten to death while attempting to flee Raqqa, Syria. The Austrian teenager and her friend, Sabina Selimovic, became Islamic State social media darlings after they ran away to join the group. Opponents to President Barack Obama’s Syrian refugees policy and angered by his “fearing widows and orphans” comment were quick to point out the ISIS teenagers, like the Austrian runaways, as militant fighters in terror attacks.

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Although the fatal beating of Samra Kesinovic has not been confirmed by ISIS, multiple newspapers in Austria have reported that the teenage girl was killed after changing her mind about being an ISIS bride and mother and tried to flee Syria, the Daily Mail reports.

According to the Local, a Tunisian woman who lived with Samra and Sabina in Raqqa shared the details about the failed escape attempt and fatal beating of the Austrian teenage girl.

Earlier this year, the teenagers ran away from their middle-class homes in Vienna. Sabina and Samra reportedly flew to the Turkish capital of Ankara and then traveled to the Adana, in the southern region of the country. The whereabouts of the girls were then unable to be verified by United Nations investigators.

Samra Kesinovic and Sabina Selimovic ultimately resurfaced on Twitter. The Austrian teenage girls were photographed holding AK-47 rifles and surrounded by armed ISIS militants. Austrian law enforcement agents said the social media photo was designed to serve as a recruitment poster for other young girls.

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“We received information just recently about two 15-year-old girls, of Bosnian origin, who left Austria, where they had been living in recent years; and everyone, the families and the intelligence services of the two countries, is looking for them,” said David Scharia, a senior Israeli expert of the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee. “Both were recruited by Islamic State. One was killed in the fighting in Syria, the other has disappeared.”

Three months ago, Austrian officials told the parents of the teenagers that at least one of the girls had been killed.

Mirsad O., an Islamic preacher from Bosnia living in Vienna, was allegedly “responsible” for the radicalization of the teenage girls. Mirsad O. is also known by the Islamic name of Ebu Tejma. He denies brainwashing Samra and Sabina and convincing them to join ISIS. Earlier this month, the Islamic preacher was reportedly arrested for allegedly funding a terrorist network based out of Vienna.

Authorities believe that the teenage girls married ISIS fighters almost immediately after running away to Syria. The two couples initially lived together in a single apartment if government investigators’ findings are accurate.

When conversing with a French weekly, Paris Match, Sabina denied reports that she was pregnant and insisted that she was finally free to practice her religion the way she wanted and was enjoying life among ISIS fighters in Syria. Sabina’s husband was reportedly in the room with her when she was typing her SMS message to the magazine.

“If we can catch them before they leave we have the chance to work with their parents and other institutions to bring the youngsters out of the sphere of influence that prompted them to act in this way the first place,” Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman Alexander Marakovits said. “Once they have left the country, even if they then changed their minds, it is then almost impossible to get them back.”

Approximately 130 Austrians have left home to wage jihad with ISIS. Many of the fighters reportedly stem from the Caucasus region of Russia and were granted asylum as refugees in Austria after the Chechen war.

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