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Sara Wallis

ISIS bride Shamima Begum describes how 'dream' became nightmare when she joined terror group

Aviator sunglasses perched on her head, flashing fingernails with bright pink nail varnish and wearing a casual shirt, Shamima Begum looks like any young woman her age.

But the 23-year-old Londoner, the former Jihadi bride and member of terrorist group ISIS, is trying to explain why she fled a comfortable family home to join a brutal genocidal regime.

“I thought I was going to an Islamic utopia,” she insists. “I did not know about the atrocities.”

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