France shouldn’t fall for the Isis ‘matchmaker’s’ self pity

Tooba Gondal, the so-called Isis “matchmaker” who acted as a megaphone and recruiter for the terror group, is reportedly on her way to France, as part of an initiative by Turkey to deport foreign jihadists in its jails.

Gondal, who holds a French passport but spent most of her life in Britain, travelled to Syria in early 2015, where she married three times, gave birth to two children, became mates with ex-punk rocker Sally Jones, posed with an AK47 on social media, boasted about her firearm training, and hung on to the bitter end in Baghouz, from which she miraculously escaped just before it fell to Kurdish forces in March. She was subsequently captured by the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) and ended up at the Ain Issa camp in northern Syria.

In October, Gondal’s tumultuous young life-story took another dramatic turn, when she made yet another escape: after the SDF deserted the Ain Issa camp following sustained shelling from Turkish forces, she fled with her two children along with hundreds of her fellow Isis foreign captives, ending up in rebel hands.