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Arts & Entertainment

ISIS bride Tania Joya: ‘My crime was being an idiot, joining a really bad idea’

October 12, 2022 Nicki Gostin  

(NY Post) Tania Joya, who was married to John Georgelas, once known as the highest-ranking American in ISIS, does not want to be blamed for her ex-husband’s misdeeds. “My crime was being an idiot and getting married too young and joining a […]

Legal

Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith jailed for 15 months for IS membership

July 22, 2022 Paul Reynolds  

(RTÉ) Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith has been sentenced to 15 months in prison at the Special Criminal Court for membership of ISIS, the Islamic State terrorist organisation. The 40-year-old mother-of-one is the first person to be convicted in an Irish court […]

Legal

Lisa Smith has already served a sentence and should not be jailed, lawyers tell court (LINK ONLY)

July 11, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Lisa Smith faces up to eight years in prison for Isis membership (LINK ONLY)

July 10, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

ISIS bride Lisa Smith vows she’ll never give up Islam, saying ‘I love my religion’ (LINK ONLY)

June 6, 2022 EoI News  

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News: Europe

Lisa Smith made anti-extremism videos in Islamic State camp in Syria (LINK ONLY)

June 5, 2022 EoI News  

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Law Enforcement

Gardaí investigated Lisa Smith for training and recruiting people to ISIS (LINK ONLY)

May 31, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith found guilty of ISIS membership, not guilty of financing terrorism (LINK ONLY)

May 30, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Judgment due today in trial of Lisa Smith for alleged membership of Isis (LINK ONLY)

May 30, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Lisa Smith chose to go to area controlled by ‘demonic’ terrorist group, court told (LINK ONLY)

March 29, 2022 EoI News  

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Sufficient evidence to consider verdict in Lisa Smith case, judge rules (LINK ONLY)

March 24, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

No evidence that Lisa Smith joined or funded Isis, court is told (LINK ONLY)

March 22, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Smith said terrorist leader ‘did something while the rest of us just sit and talk,’ trial hears (LINK ONLY)

March 15, 2022 EoI News  

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Internet

Lisa Smith’s Facebook messages with jihadists to be admitted as evidence (LINK ONLY)

March 8, 2022 EoI News  

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Internet

Lisa Smith trial: Lawyers waving Data Protection Act like ‘garlic at vampire,’ court told (LINK ONLY)

March 3, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

‘ISIS bride’ Tania Joya explains why she outed Rep. Van Taylor: ‘I kept my word’

March 3, 2022 Wendell Husebø  

(Breitbart) “ISIS bride” Tania Joya exclusively told Breitbart News on Thursday that she divulged her damning affair with Rep. Van Taylor (R-TX) — which torpedoed his political career — because she felt slighted by the congressman after he didn’t “[keep] his promises.” […]

Internet

Lawyer for Lisa Smith accuses Facebook of ‘wholesale breach’ of privacy rights (LINK ONLY)

March 2, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

US Rep. Van Taylor drops Texas reelection bid, admits affair

March 2, 2022 Jake Bleiberg and Terry Wallace  

(AP) U.S. Rep. Van Taylor of Texas said Wednesday that he was ending his reelection campaign and admitted having an affair following reports that he had been in a relationship with the widow of an American-born recruiter for the Islamic State group. […]

Internet

Lawyers object to evidence of Lisa Smith’s alleged contact with convicted terrorists (LINK ONLY)

March 1, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

‘ISIS bride’ says Texas congressman Van Taylor paid her to keep quiet about affair

February 28, 2022 Wendell Husebø  

(Breitbart) Texas Rep. Van Taylor (R) allegedly paid $5,000 in hush money to an “ISIS bride” he was engaged in an affair with during his time in Congress, Breitbart News has learned. According to documents “ISIS bride” Tania Joya shared with Breitbart […]

Government & Politics

Van Taylor accused of extramarital affair with ISIS bride, abuse of power, ‘rim job’ text

February 27, 2022 Cullen McCue  

(National File) Tania Georgelas — an ISIS bride who was liberated from Syria in 2013 — has accused U.S. Rep. Van Taylor of having an extramarital affair with her. Georgelas claims that Taylor abused his position in order to gain consent and […]

Legal

Bad things were happening but ‘it wasn’t my problem,’ Lisa Smith tells court (LINK ONLY)

February 14, 2022 EoI News  

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Law Enforcement

FBI believes it is ‘beyond suspicion’ that Lisa Smith joined Isis, court hears (LINK ONLY)

February 11, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Alleged Islamic State member Lisa Smith told gardaí that prosecution witness was a ‘liar’ — trial hears (LINK ONLY)

February 7, 2022 EoI News  

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Law Enforcement

American who got Lisa Smith out of women’s ‘prison’ wanted by FBI, court told (LINK ONLY)

February 3, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Lisa Smith believed she would ‘burn in hell’ if she did not go to caliphate (LINK ONLY)

February 2, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Lisa Smith moved to Syria to help build Muslim state, court hears (LINK ONLY)

February 1, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Lisa Smith ‘threw her life away to go and join a violent, extremist ideology,’ court hears (LINK ONLY)

January 28, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Ex-soldier Lisa Smith married a member of al Qaida while in Syria, court hears (LINK ONLY)

January 27, 2022 EoI News  

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Legal

Court hears Smith espoused ‘politicised’ and ‘harsh’ approach to Islam

January 26, 2022 Paul Reynolds  

(RTÉ) The Special Criminal Court has been told that Lisa Smith espoused a very “politicised” and “harsh” approach to Islam and wanted a husband who would be “a shaheed,” a martyr. Carol Karimah Duffy said she knew Ms Smith and her family […]

Military

Lisa Smith married four times before leaving for jihad in Syria as IS bride’s road to joining terror group revealed (LINK ONLY)

November 27, 2019 EoI News  

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Legal

No more jail for grieving father who was ‘groomed’ by IS supporter

November 8, 2019 Karen Sweeney  

(AAP) A disability pensioner won’t spend any more time behind bars after a judge accepted he was “infatuated” by an American Islamic State supporter he sent money to. Hampton Park man Isa Kocoglu admitted sending more than $2700 over several transactions to […]

Children & Teens

Repentant Islamic State wife: ‘We are winning’ fight against radical Islam

November 3, 2019 Penny Starr  

(Breitbart) Like many across the United States, upon hearing the news that Islamic State terror leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi had been cornered in Syria and died after detonating a suicide vest, Tania Joya was happy the “serial rapist” was dead. “We are […]

Health & Medicine

Victorian pensioner admits to sending cash to IS fighter

November 1, 2019 Caroline Schelle  

(AAP) A Melbourne pensioner sent thousands of dollars to an American fighting for Islamic State in Syria, but his lawyers say he was “groomed” after the death of his son. Hampton Park man Isa Kocoglu admitted sending more than $2700 in total […]

Military

The secret life of Irish [jihadist] Lisa Smith (LINK ONLY)

October 6, 2019 EoI News  

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Military

Isis bride Smith posed with guns before heading to Syria (LINK ONLY)

October 6, 2019 EoI News  

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News: Europe

Pal of IS bride Lisa Smith said she visited Syria two years before she joined terror group (LINK ONLY)

August 11, 2019 EoI News  

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Internet

This is the US-born jihadi believed to have radicalised Isis bride Lisa Smith (LINK ONLY)

July 21, 2019 EoI News  

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Deradicalization

Ex-jihadist Tania Joya now fights to ‘reprogram’ extremists

July 19, 2019 Cyril Julien  

(AFP) Tania Joya has devoted her life to “reprogramming” extremists and reintroducing them into society — a process she understands well as a “former Islamic jihadist” herself. “My aim is for them to feel a sense of remorse and to train them […]

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