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MI5 spies posed as an ISIS commander to trick Britain's youngest female terrorist into discussing a plot to attack London tourist hotspots.
Safaa Boular, 18, was yesterday found guilty of planning a machine gun and grenade assault on the British Museum and the MI6 headquarters as part of an all-female 'hit squad' alongside her mother Mina Dich, sister Rizlaine, 22, and family friend Khawla Barghouthi, 21.
Boular had been radicalised online by British Pakistani national Naweed Hussain, who joined ISIS in Syria in June 2015 and urged her to commit atrocities in the UK before marrying her in an internet ceremony when she was 16.
Hussain, whom Boular had never met, died in a drone strike last year but had previously spoken to MI5 officers posing as eastern European ISIS converts, who then reached out to his 'wife'.