(CBS) The Kansas woman accused of traveling to Syria in support of the Islamic State was ordered detained pending trial on Thursday following her arrest late last month.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, described in charging documents as a mother and teacher turned ISIS battalion leader, was last in the U.S. on or about January 8, 2011, government travel records show, before ultimately emerging in Syria in 2014.
Once there, according to one of at least six government witnesses who say they interacted with the defendant, Ekren allegedly presented a plan of attack to a paid U.S. foreign government source.
That plan, prosecutors say, was for Ekren and other members of the ISIS community in Syria to “dress like infidels” and attack an American college campus with a backpack full of explosives. The attack was ultimately put on hold, court documents explain.
