British glamour model reveals how she was recruited by ISIS on Facebook

A British glamour model has told how she was brainwashed by an ISIS recruiter and then groomed to move to Syria to become the next White Widow.

Kimberley Miners, 29, from London, says she was targeted online by ISIS recruiter Naweed Hussain, who died in an airstrike in February. She was groomed to become the next "White Widow" after Sally Jones, a British mother-of-one, sacrificed her life to the cause earlier this year.

Kimberly Miners was arrested by anti-terror police last year after they found correspondence between her and Hussain, which included a bomb-making manual. She was soon released after police realized she had been duped.
Miss Miners told The Sun how she had "totally fallen for it" after suffering a miscarriage and breaking up with her fiance. She started using social media and began making friends with people in Syria after sympathizing with the plight of refugees.

She said:

I started sharing videos of bomb attacks in the hope of showing people what was going on. I soon started receiving lots of friend requests from people in Syria. They’d message me on Facebook.
It’s embarrassing now but I liked the attention. I’d been so lonely. Now I felt I finally belonged.
I craved the attention, the respect and the offers of friendship.

Hussain noticed Miss Miners had been sharing the videos of Syria and got in touch with her. She says Hussain flattered her and even convinced her to change her name to Aisha Lauren al-Britaniya. Among her new online friends was 15-year-old Amira Abase, who traveled to Syria with two school friends, and Sally Jones. Towards the end of 2015, police became aware of Miss Miners and monitored her weekly.
She attended a terrorism prevention course and also therapy sessions to identify possible triggers for her behaviour but she dropped out of the course. At this point, Hussain told her to start using Telegram, an encrypted messaging service, where they could communicate. He invited her to Turkey where he said he would meet her and take her to Syria.

Shortly after, anti-terror police intervened and arrested her. Miss Miners was initially told she would face ten years in prison but was later released from bail without any further action in January.
Hussain died a few weeks later in a drone strike.