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It was like Benghazi’: Security contractors fought for their lives against Taliban attack

Dögevő — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 17:13:13 GMT

A Taliban attack against a British security contractor compound in Kabul left six dead and dozens wounded. The facility belongs to the G4S Risk Management Group and is located in the eastern part of the Afghan capital.

Luke Griffin, a British security contractor from Liverpool, has been identified as one of the dead. Griffin had previously served in the British military as an infantryman. He had seen combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The other five were Afghan. All Taliban insurgents were killed during the attack.

According to the Afghan Interior Ministry, the attack began with the detonation of a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) outside the compound. Thereafter, a group of Taliban entered the base and began shooting anyone on sight.

According to NEWSREP sources, the contractors were caught completely unaware. The compound was used as a sort of safe house for contractors conducting close-protection (CP) details for private and public customers. There was a static security force, led by a British contractor, that was responsible for perimeter defence. Survivors of the attack state that it was like Benghazi — referring to the 2012 attacks by terrorists against State Department and CIA facilities in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the death of four Americans.

It took hours for the Afghan commandos who responded to the attack to clear the compound of the remaining Taliban fighters. Footage of the aftermath reveals the intensity of the fight: a huge crater where the VBIED started the attack, flattened buildings, choking smoke, dozens of wounded.

The facility is G4S’ headquarters in Afghanistan. At 26,000 square metres, the compound is located at Kabul’s Anjuman Secure Business Park. As one of the largest private security companies in the world, G4S provides security and close protection services to a wide range of clients. In Afghanistan, for example, the company is responsible for the security of the U.K. embassy in Kabul. G4S employees hail from across the world.

In a statement, Charlie Burbridge, Managing Director of G4S, said, “We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the British Embassy, the Foreign and the Commonwealth Office, the British and Afghan armed forces, other NATO forces and other private security companies who have all assisted us as we ensure our operations in Kabul are secure and continue safely.”

He added, “We are committed to our security role in support of the people of Afghanistan, and we are determined that incidents such as this will not prevent the vital work that the international community conducts from continuing.”

Kommandósokkal együtt csapott le a NAV

Dögevő — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:56:25 GMT

Négy megyében, harminchárom helyszínen volt rajtaütés egy nap alatt.

A vagyonvédelemben munkaerő-kölcsönzéssel foglalkozó bűnszervezetet számoltak fel a Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal (NAV) dél-dunántúli nyomozói, a szervezet több mint egymilliárd forint kárt okozott a költségvetésnek - közölte a NAV Dél-Dunántúli Bűnügyi Igazgatósága hétfőn az MTI-vel.

A közlemény szerint a szervezet irányítói olyan - főként Tolna és Pest megyében tevékenykedő - céghálózatot hoztak létre, amely alvállalkozói munkaerő-kölcsönző gazdasági társaságokból állt. A láncolat tetején lévő négy cég fővállalkozóként vagyonvédelmi és őrzésbiztonsági munkát vállalt szabályos alvállalkozói szerződések alapján. A feladatok elvégzéséhez a láncolat további cégeitől kölcsönöztek munkaerőt, és a megbízást közvetítő cégeken keresztül átszámlázták nekik.Az őrzés-védelmet ténylegesen végző munkavállalók úgynevezett "bukó cégekhez" voltak bejelentve alkalmazottként, amelyek nem fizettek utánuk járulékokat. A munkaerőt kölcsönbe adó 20 társaság strómanok nevére, székhelyszolgáltatókhoz bejegyzett cég volt, amelyeket a háttérből a bűnszervezet vezetője és segítői irányítottak.

Az adó- és járulékfizetés elkerülésével 1,3 milliárd forint vagyoni hátrányt okoztak az állami költségvetésnek - írták.

A rajtaütés napján a NAV dél-dunántúli pénzügyi nyomozói, pénzügyőrei adórevizorokkal és informatikusokkal négy megyében, harminchárom helyszínen dolgoztak.

A szervezet fő irányítójával szemben kommandósokat is bevetettek, mert az előzetes információk szerint lakóhelyén tíz - szabályosan bejelentett - vadász- és egyéb lőfegyvert tartott. Vele együtt tizenöt gyanúsítottat állítottak elő, közülük hét embert őrizetbe vettek. A bíróság három gyanúsított letartóztatását és egy bűnügyi felügyeletét rendelte el.

Az igazgatóság közölte: a kár mintegy 60 százalékának megtérülését biztosító vagyoni érték megközelíti a 700 millió forintot. A nyomozók kezdeményezték ingatlanok, gépjárművek, bankszámlán vezetett összegek, valamint a láncolatban szereplő cégek üzletrészeinek zár alá vételét, illetve lefoglalását. Emellett 47 millió forint készpénzt, 11 millió forint értékűre becsült festményt és egyéb értékes ingóságokat - ékszert, órát, érmét - is lefoglaltak.

Anna Campbell – Rest in Power Fellow Worker

Dögevő — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:15:57 GMT

Anna Campbell – Rest in Power Fellow Worker

It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of Fellow Worker Anna Campbell, killed while fighting alongside Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in the defence of Afrin.

Anna was a dedicated feminist, social justice and environmental campaigner known to members for her activism around the student occupation movement, ecological and community outreach projects in Bristol and Sheffield.

Anna travelled to Syria last May to participate in the grassroots feminist and socialist revolution that continues to grow in Rojava (the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Syria). Anna spent her first months in the country fighting in Deir ez-Zor, Isis’s last major
stronghold. However when Turkey launched an assault on the city of Afrin in late January Anna insisted that she be redeployed there. She gave her commanders an ultimatum, ‘Either I will go home and abandon the life as a revolutionary or you send me to Afrin. But I would never leave the revolution, so I will go to Afrin’. A spokesperson from the YPJ said of Anna (who took the nom de guerre 'Helîn' in Rojava), "comrade Helîn will always be a symbol as a pioneering internationalist woman. We will live up to her hope and beliefs. We will forever pursue her aim to struggle for women, for oppressed communities.”

Our thoughts and condolences are with Anna’s family, friends and comrades at this time.

Rest in Power Fellow Worker.

American Peshmerga Documentary

Dögevő — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:10:07 GMT

Otherwise known to his colleagues as "Mr. Grim," Lyle Thomas has held a variety of jobs during his life. Though he is a man of few words, each one is filled with hair-raising exploits reminiscent of a real-life action hero. From his tenure as a repo agent in Boston to high-stakes security work across the globe, every chapter of Lyle’s life and career is nothing short of an exhilarating thrill ride that feels like a tale straight out of a movie.

In 2015, Lyle found himself dug in fighting the battle against ISIS with the Peshmerga, otherwise known as the military force of Kurdistan, the soldiers spearheading the fight against terrorism on their own soil. During Lyle's tour in Kurdistan, harrowing battles were fought, friends were made -- and lost -- and a lifetime's worth of stories had been accumulated by him on the frontlines, including the moment he was given the honor of being the first-ever American Peshmerga.

Upon his return to Boston, after thirty years of shootouts, close calls, and exciting tales of intrigue and suspense, Lyle slowed things down and decided to document his life's adventures, compiling countless pages of stories that read like a nail-biting thriller.

During Lyle's circulation of his manuscript, it caught the attention of myself, a freelance author in California, and a filmmaker in Boston. Needless to say, we desperately wanted to tell his story to the rest of the world.

Not long ago work began on a documentary series that chronicles Lyle's life entitled "American Peshmerga," as well as an expansive and in-depth companion piece novel called "The Confidential Files of Mr. Grim."

Along with the trailer and a soon to be completed manuscript, Lyle Thomas, his author, and his director are looking for YOUR help to get it to the final stages. A script has been written for our short film, and like any good movie, it requires time to make -- as well as a budget.

This is where you guys come in! This is a passion project for all of us involved. For us, Lyle's life story is not only an adrenaline-pumping thrill ride, but one that reflects the core values in life that all of us can embrace: love, honor, duty, and dedication. This project is an immense undertaking, and we want to raise funds to tell his story to a larger audience to give it the right authenticity and justice that a story of this scope deserves.

We've given everything to this project, but now we need that extra push from you to make it happen! The funds we raise here will go to pay our actors, our crew, and all of those involved that are working hard to bring Lyle's story to life, and all of you that donate will be able to take a role in the final product!

We thank all of you that can give anything, and we looked forward to showing you the completed project.

Viking Epic

Dögevő — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:14:42 GMT

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U.S. NATIONAL DAVID TAYLOR KILLED FIGHTING ISIS FOR KURDISH MILITIA IN SYRIA

Dögevő — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:13:27 GMT

U.S. national and foreign fighter David Taylor has been killed in the battle against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in northern Syria, the Kurdish militia he was fighting alongside announced on Tuesday.

The People’s Protection Units, also known as the YPG, and the main Syrian Kurdish militia battling the jihadi group announced on social media the 26-year-old Florida native’s death near the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa.

The YPG press office video, posted to the militia’s Facebook page, identified Taylor’s nom de guerre as Zafer Qerecox. He had joined the Kurdish fighters in May, the release said.

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“Comrade Zafer was martyred fighting ISIS’ barbarism on July 16, 2017, in Raqqa, Syria,” the video said.

The release said Taylor was born in February 1991 to a working-class family and studied philosophy at an unidentified university before a four-year stint in the U.S. military.

“He was a well-liked, generous and caring person, and a professional at his job,” it said.

The video proceeded to show Taylor speaking to the camera.

“I joined the YPG to fight ISIS and do whatever I can to help the revolution here,” he says. “The education that I have gotten here has dealt with ideology, weapons and various tactics. I just want to say hello to my family. I miss you guys, and hopefully I’ll see you soon.”

He proceeds to speak in Kurmanji, the regional Kurdish dialect. “Long live free Kurdistan! Long live the YPG. Long live the YPJ,” he says, in reference to the women’s unit that sits side by side with the YPG.

Kurdish social media channels called Taylor a “hero” and a “martyr” who died fighting for their cause.

A State Department official, in an email sent to Newsweek, would not confirm Taylor’s death or that the government is providing any assistance to his family. “We are aware of reports that a U.S. citizen was killed while fighting in Syria. We have no further comment at this time,” the official said.

Washington warns Americans against traveling to Syria, a country ripped apart by six years of war, because of the risk of kidnapping, injury or death. The government openly says its ability to assist those injured or kidnapped in Syria remains severely limited.

Numerous Western foreign fighters have joined the ground troops battling ISIS, at their own risk and against the advice of their governments.

The YPG is fighting alongside Arab militiamen and militiawomen in a coalition known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The force is the principal ally of the U.S.-led coalition battling ISIS in northern Syria, and Washington is arming the coalition, angering its NATO ally Turkey.

The SDF forces are besieging the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa, ISIS’s de facto capital, and have captured more than a quarter of its neighborhoods in the six-week-long offensive.

Terrortámadás Londonban: gázolás, késelés, hét halott, 48 sérült

Dögevő — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 14:41:02 GMT

Egy fehér furgon hajtott a járókelők közé nagy sebességgel a London Bridge-en este tíz óra körül
Az autó a Borough Market városrészig száguldott. Ott kiugrottak belőle, és késsel támadtak az emberekre a merénylők, a szemtanúk szerint azt kiabálták, hogy "Ez Allahnak"
Sokáig hat halottról szóltak a hírek, vasárnap délelőtt a hetedik áldozat is elhunyt. 48 embert vittek kőrházba
A három támadót lelőtte a rendőrség
A rendőrök Vauxhallhoz is kivonultak, szintén késelés miatt, később azonban közölték ennek nincs köze a másik két ügyhöz
A brit miniszterelnök és a rendőrség is terrortámadásról beszél
Egyelőre nem vállalta magára a támadást semmilyen szervezet
Gyalogosokat gázolt el szombat este egy fehér furgon London egyik legismertebb hídján, a London Bridge-en. A hidat lezárták, a helyszínen nagy erőkkel felvonultak a fegyveres rendőri egységek. A BBC-nek beszámoló szemtanúk szerint a jármű nagyjából 80 km/h-val haladt, a városközpont irányából érkezett, szándékosnak tűnt a gázolás.
Először 5-6, később, 20, hajnalra már több mint 30 sérültről adtak hírt, a helyszínen tartózkodók szerint a hídon nagyjából százan lehetettek, amikor a kisteherautó az emberek közé hajtott.

Mivel felmerült a lehetősége, hogy néhányan akár a folyóba is eshettek, a rendőrség csónakokat is küldött a vízre.

A furgon továbbhajtott, a támadók kiszálltak késekkel. A London Bridge-hez közeli Borough Market-nél rontottak be egy étterembe, és a vendégekre támadtak, többeket megsebesítettek. "Ezt Allahnak", kiabálták az őrjöngés közben. A rendőrök lelőttek három támadót, megsebesült egy rendőr is. (A támadók elsőre bombamellénynek látszó öltözéket viseltek, valójában nem az volt.)

Volt egy harmadik helyszín is, a hídtól jóval távolabbi, délre fekvő Vauxhall, itt szintén késelés történt, de a rendőrség hamarosan tisztázta, hogy az eset nem kapcsolódik a többihez.

A rendőrök lezárták a környéket, elterelték a forgalmat, arra kérték az embereket, hogy ne menjenek ezekre a helyekre, a helyszínek kiürítésében segítettek a taxisok is. Nem sokkal később többen is arról számoltak be, hogy robbanások hangját is hallották a Borough Marketnél, meg nem erősített hírek szerint ezek a rendőrség által kontrollált robbantások voltak.

A kora reggeli adatok szerint 48 sebesültet vittek öt kórházba a mentők, plusz rajtuk kívül könnyebb sérülteket a helyszínen elláttak. Több mint 80 mentős segített a helyszínen. Azt is közölték a brit lapok, hogy az első mentő 6 perccel a hívás után érkezett a helyszínre. A londoni francia nagykövetség szerint a sérültek között négy francia állampolgár is van. Két ausztrál és egy új-zélandi is érintett. Magyar sérültről nem tud a külügy.

A hírek sokáig hat halottról szóltak, aztán vasárnap délelőtt 11 előtt közölték, hogy elhunyt egy hetedik áldozat is.A rendőrség vizsgálja, hogy mindez egy szélesebb hálózat támadása volt-e, de az első hatósági nyilatkozatok szerint valószínűleg a merénylet összes résztvevőjét megölték, azaz hárman tervelhették ki és hajthatták végre a támadást.

Leállt a kampány

Theresa May brit miniszterelnök megszakította kampánykörútját, hogy visszatérjen a Downing Street 10-be, azt mondta, terrortámadás történhetett, a rendőrség is így kezeli az ügyet. Theresa May kormányfő elnökletével vasárnap délelőtt összeül a brit kormány válsághelyzeti tanácskozó testülete, a COBRA. A csütörtöki brit választásokig leállt a kampány. Theresa May konzervatív párti miniszterelnöknek és Jeremy Corbynnak, a legnagyobb ellenzéki erő, a Munkáspárt vezetőjének is lett volna egy-egy nagyszabású kampányrendezvénye vasárnap, de ezeket nem tartják meg.

Donald Trumpot is értesítették a történtekről, az Egyesült Államok Külügyminisztériuma is követi az eseményeket.

Angela Merkel azt közölte: "Határokon átívelő egységben állunk a gyászban, de az elszántságban is. A terrorizmus minden formájával való harcban a britek oldalán állunk szilárdan és eltökélten."

Két és fél hónap alatt három támadás

Március vége óta ez a harmadik terrortámadás Nagy-Britanniában. Március 22-én egy magányos merénylő, Khalid Masood járművével nagy sebességgel a gyalogosok közé hajtott a londoni Westminster híd járdáján, majd kocsijából kiszállva, a parlament épületénél késsel megölt egy rendőrt. Annak a támadásnak a rendőrrel együtt öt halálos áldozata volt. A merénylőt a parlament fegyveres őrsége a helyszínen agyonlőtte.

Nem egészen két hete, Ariana Grande amerikai énekesnő manchesteri popkoncertjének helyszínén egy öngyilkos merénylő, a 22 éves, líbiai származású, de manchesteri születésű Salman Abedi öngyilkos pokolgépes merényletet hajtott végre, 22 embert megölve.

A manchesteri merényletben 117-en szenvedtek kórházi kezelést igénylő sérüléseket. A halálos áldozatok között hét gyermek van, a legfiatalabb egy nyolcéves kislány. Ez volt a legsúlyosabb merénylet Nagy-Britanniában a 2005 júliusában elkövetett londoni merényletsorozat óta.

Abban a támadásban négy öngyilkos merénylő robbantott fel három londoni metrószerelvényt és egy városi buszt, 52 utast megölve és több mint hétszázat megsebesítve. A múlt havi manchesteri merénylet után néhány napra a legmagasabb, kritikus szintre emelték a nagy-britanniai terrorkészültségi fokozatot, de a riasztási szintet a múlt hétvégén ismét a korábbi, második legmagasabbra mérsékelték.Amber Rudd belügyminiszter a napokban részletek nélkül elmondta: a brit elhárító szolgálatok 2013 óta tizennyolc nagy-britanniai terrortámadási kísérletet hiúsítottak meg, közülük ötöt a Westminster hídon márciusban elkövetett merénylet ó

Deadly Terror Attack On Russian Subway, More Devices Found

Dögevő — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:34:21 GMT

Around 10 people are dead and an estimated 20 more are wounded following a bomb attack on a busy St. Petersburg subway train in Russia. A second device was found at a different subway station, and a bomb squad was called in to reduce it.

The device responsible for the deadly blast was hidden in a brief case and left aboard one of the train’s passenger cars. The bomb is said to have been made deadlier with the excessive shrapnel fragmentation materials used in its construction.

All subway stations within the city have been temporarily closed, and security has been tightened at all public transportation facilities. Russian President Putin was in the city at the time of the attack, meeting with the Belarusian president.

Mosul battle: Kurdish reporter Shifa Gardi killed in Iraq

Dögevő — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 01:35:58 GMT

A Kurdish reporter has been killed while covering on the battle for Mosul in Iraq.

Shifa Gardi, who worked for Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw, was killed by a roadside bomb as she covered the advance of Iraqi forces into western areas held by so-called Islamic State.

Rudaw said that Gardi, 30, had broken the stereotypes of male-dominated journalism.

Iraqi forces continue to face stiff resistance from IS as they advance.

The Iraqi troops entered western districts of Mosul for the first time on Friday as part of an offensive begun in October to drive the jihadists from their main stronghold.

'Daring journalist'

Rudaw said that Gardi's cameraman, Yunis Mustafa, was injured in the explosion.

Western Mosul will be toughest fight yet

Battle for Mosul: The story so far

Mosul images reveal IS airport damageGardi had been presenting a daily programme on the Mosul offensive for Rudaw TV and had recently started to cover the war from inside Mosul, the channel said on its website.

Iraq gaining momentum against IS

Islamic State group: The full story

After paying tribute to her, Rudaw recalled the recent incident where Gardi had found a wounded rabbit.

"The rabbit is suffering from malnutrition which has caused visible damage to its face. I brought it back with me. We will be treating the rabbit and then give it to an animal protection agency which is willing to look after it," she said.

Iraqi forces continue to face stiff resistance from IS fighters bunkered in western districts.

Special forces Lt Gen Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi told Associated Press his soldiers were "moving very slowly" in the face of attacks with car bombs, snipers and armed drones.

He said the plan was to cut supply lines and link up with eastern districts that Iraqi forces declared "fully liberated" last month.

IS jihadists overran Mosul as they spread across much of northern and western Iraq in 2014.

They lost large areas of territory, in Iraq and Syria, in 2016.

EXCLUSIVE - 'ISIS want to kill me, capture me and turn me into a sex slave': Danish student branded a terrorist after training as 'Lady Deat

Dögevő — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 15:31:50 GMT

Joanna Palani fled Denmark to fight with Kurdish Peshmerga/YPG against Isis

But when she returned to Copenhagen was banned from travel under terror law

Now 23-year-old is facing jail for flouting ban introduced to stop Isis fighters

Joanna admits to MailOnline she went to fight in Manbijj, Syria AGAIN last year

Reveals she spent 'days' as a YPG crack-shot sniper picking off jihadi targets

Admits she broke the travel ban but claims she did it to 'protect Europe'

Now she has lost her home, her family, is under threat from Isis and facing jail

'I was willing to give up my life and my freedom to stop Isis advancing,' she said

Admits being a sniper: 'I use a Russian sniper rifle. You have to be very patient'

A Danish politics student who trained as a sniper to fight Isis in Syria has told how she has 'lost everything' after being labelled a terrorist - and now faces assassination by Isis.

Joanna Palani, 23, dropped out of college to join the battle against jihadis in Syria, spending nine-day stretches alone on the frontline with her Russian sniper rifle trained on Isis targets.

Now she has been forced into hiding and is facing jail in her adopted country for defying authorities who banned her from fighting jihadis.

But she is also under threat from the fanatics who want to capture her and use her as a sex slave or convert her to their branch of Islam.

In an exclusive interview, she told MailOnline why she risked her freedom to fight Isis in Syria, her gruelling regime as a crack-shot sniper, and the devastating toll of war on her life.

She said: 'I was willing to give up my life and my freedom to stop Isis advancing, so that everyone in Europe can be safe. This was my choice.

'But I am seen as a terrorist by my own country.'

Sniper: Joanna Palani, 23, dropped out of college to fight Isis and trained as a crack-shot sniper with the Syrian People's Protection Units, the YPG, spending nine days at a time on the frontline and wielding a Russian-made Dragunov sniper gun
Frontline: Joanna, 23, told MailOnline how she secretly returned to Syria last summer in defiance of a ban on international travel because she was desperate to return to the team she had trained to fight. 'I was wanting to be back with my girls in Syria...I did this for the safety of Europe'
Fighter: Joanna Palani defied Danish authorities to travel to the Syrian frontline last year, above, and is now facing jail in Copenhagen. She claimed to MailOnline: 'I did this for the safety of Europe. I don't want ISIS to get control of any European countries'

Joanna also admitted for the first time to MailOnline how she broke strict anti-terror laws to return to Syria last summer.

She said: 'I am sorry I had to break the travel ban [imposed on me], but I felt I had no choice. I did not expect to lose almost everything for fighting for the safety of the same country which is now trying to take my freedom

'I live in one of the best countries in the world but I am hungry and homeless and freezing cold in bed at night, even though I am working full time. I don't trust anyone.'

Joanna insisted: 'I don't want ISIS to threaten European countries or people in the same way they have done in Kurdistan.'

The politics student was issued with a travel ban in September 2015. But she defied authorities to rejoin comrades in her battle-hardened Kurdish unit fighting ISIS in northern Syria from June to October 2016 because she says she couldn't bear to leave the women she had trained.

Now Joanna, who arrived in Denmark aged three with her family as refugees from Iraq, faces up two years behind bars for breaching the travel ban, intended to stop Danes from joining terror groups in the Middle East.

Fighting 'for freedom': 'I would have a headscarf over my head to cover my blonde hair and blankets over me. In the daylight we defend, at night hunt and shoot'
Hunted: Since returning from Isis the first time Joanna Palani suffered threats from Isis and claims she has a $1million 'kill or capture' bounty on her head. But now also facing jail after breaching a travel ban issued by the Danish government, she has lost weight, above right in Syria last year and above left as a student before her Syria trips.

Dangerous game: When asked why she returned to Manbijj, Syria, in defiance of a travel ban, she told MailOnline: 'I had trained the female fighters, they got injured and they got killed, the fighters I had trained the year before. But no one knew they had died for freedom.' Pictured: Joanna Palani in Iraq with the Iraqi PeshmerSpeaking exclusively to MailOnline the sniper told how she feels hunted by the Danish authorities while also living under the shadow of an Isis $1m 'kill or capture' bounty.

Forced to move from location to location every three days, she says she is struggling financially and lacking all home comforts.

'I am freezing cold every night and I go to bed hungry.

'The Danish government is trying to set an example of me in court so they can say publicly that I am just the same as ISIS, but I am not a criminal.

'I would take ten years in jail with pride to save people but I wouldn't accept one day in jail for being a danger to Denmark. I don't understand why they [the Danish intelligence service] would view me as a threat when I was fighting for Europe and for females everywhere.'

Joanna was arrested on December 7th last year by Denmark's PET intelligence service under tough new anti-terrorism legislation intended to stop citizens taking part in the devastating conflict in Syria and Iraq.

She was held in prison for three weeks before being released on the orders of a judge before Christmas on December 23.

But while she was in jail she learned of a threat from another angle. Joanna was told that ISIS had now put a $1 million-bounty on her head.

Looking tired but defiant, Joanna says: 'ISIS want to kill me, and capture me to convert me into a radical Islamist or turn me into a sex slave.

'But I love my independence and freedom as a woman more than I fear being captured or turned into a sex slave by ISIS or for ISIS. My worries about being captured and killed are not as great as my love of freedom. That is what keeps me going.

'My response is to keep moving, to keep going to class, to keep working. I will keep trying to show them that I am a liberated and independent woman. This is how I will defeat them.'

Defiant: Danish authorities issued Joanna with a travel ban in September 2015, but in June last year she returned to northern Iraq. She told MailOnline: 'Something happened inside me that made me go [back to Syria]

Alone: While in Syria for the third time, Joanna spent nine days at a time on the frontline taking aim at Isis fighters. She revealed: 'You have to be very patient. You have to be very calm. And you have to focus. You cannot lose concentration for one moment. You are covered in blankets and camouflage.You have to remember to bring a bag for hygiene because you never know how long you will have to wait.'

Heroine: Joanna is unusually candid about realising her teenage ambition to follow in the tradition of other female snipers. 'I like using my brain and my body to focus on the mission. I loved my training.'
On the run: Since returning from Syria last year Joanna has felt hunted by Isis and persecuted by the Danish authorities. She is effectively homeless and and moves every three days to ensure her safety. Pictured above left before her trips to Syria, and above right in Copenhagen last week
Haven: Joanna bitterly resents the level of support offered to returning ISIS fighters by the Danish state, as she believes it makes the country a more attractive destination to those instructed to attack Europe. 'I would take ten years in jail with pride to save people but I wouldn't accept one day in jail for being a danger to Denmark.' Pictured: Joanna in Syria where she spent 12 months on her first tripBut she says she has also been targeted in the street, and even warned she could be captured by Isis and abused.

Sitting in a closed room at a secret location in the heart of Copenhagen, she told MailOnline: 'I was threatened in the street last month by a Danish Muslim convert who I know has fought in Syria and last year I was attacked by four Islamist men.

'There's a $1 million reward on my head. It is possible for me to be captured and killed in these circumstances that I find myself in here in Denmark.'

The 23-year-old is keen to stay 'on message' with her YPG battalion, and refuses to accept she has reason to be scared.

'I will never give them the victory of my fear. When we were preparing to liberate houses of ISIS sex slaves, we had this saying - one fighter goes to rescue but many fighters will come back out.

'That is because the survivors often join us. Many of the girls we rescue join us and train to become fighters. So if they captured me, I would still fight them, for all of those girls as well as for myself. I will never submit, or let them win.'

It was as the battle for the strategically important town of Manbij, north-east of Aleppo, raged last summer that Joanna felt compelled to re-join her YPG, People's Protection Unit, a brigade battling to break ISIS' grip on northern Syria.

'I was wanting to be back with my girls in Syria, as we were going to be going more forward and by that stage Special Forces had joined us on the ground so I knew it would be better. I wanted to be there.

'It's not so easy for me to be in Denmark when my friends are in Rojava and girls I had trained, who were younger than me, were in Manbij and I was not. I felt ashamed and guilty that I was not there.

'They were trying to say there were no women in Manbij, but I knew they were there and that they were fighting forward.'

So on 6 June last year - still in possession of her passport despite the travel ban - she calmly flew back to northern Iraq. She walked for seven hours through the night to cross the border into northern Syria, where she was then driven to the front-line to be reunited with the young women she had trained to fight.

'Something happened inside me that made me go [back to Syria],' Joanna explained to MailOnline.

'At that time in my life it was so much easier to be there [in Syria].

'I had trained the female fighters, they got injured and they got killed, the fighters I had trained the year before. But no one knew they had died for freedom.'

Memories: Joanna's eyes light up when she describes her experiences fighting Isis. 'At night we would get close to the enemy. We would joke that we were 'hunting'
Price to pay: But after spending many months with the YPJ Joanna is now forced to live in hiding in Denmark and fears for her safety. Isis have reportedly issued a $1m reward for her kill or capture and she is fearful of going to prison for revealing her role fighting the vicious terror group.

Lonely: Forced to live in a different location every three days, Joanna has slowly become estranged from her family and is facing ten years in jail for breaking the travel ban imposed on her by Danish authorities. She says she felt compelled to return to Syria to fight with the women she had trained

Over several hours, this idealistic young woman told MailOnline how she fears for her life from the dozens of foreign fighters who have sought sanctuary in Denmark after fleeing ISIS.

The progressive Scandinavian country has the highest rate of returning jihadis in Europe, according to the International Centre for Counter Terrorism (ICC), due to their benevolent de-radicalisation programme.

Joanna bitterly resents the level of support offered to returning ISIS fighters by the Danish state, as she believes it makes the country a more attractive destination to those instructed to kill her.

An ISIS sniper from Saudi Arabia is 'after her' following news articles about her military exploits, she claims. The threat from this sniper made her commander send her to Manbij instead of towards Raqqa, where this Saudi sniper for ISIS is said to be located.

Although apparently an acclaimed marksman Joanna refuses to discuss how many 'kills' she has achieved – insisting there is no honour in crowing about taking someone else's life. But she admits that as a teenager she idolised the female World War 2 Red Army sniper known as the Lady of Death - who shot over 309 Nazis.

'I am a sniper,' Joanna told MailOnline proudly, her eyes lighting up as she recalls the excitement of a mission.

'I like using my brain and my body to focus on the mission. I loved my training. It was like Lyudmila [Pavlichenko] the Lady Death from the Russian Red Army.'

Joanna's YPG battalion claim she has killed 100 ISIS fanatics in morale-boosting propaganda.

Describing the intensity of a sniper's skills she added: 'You have to be very patient. You have to be very calm. And you have to focus. You cannot lose concentration for one moment. You are covered in blankets and camouflage. I use a Russian SVD Dragunov sniper rifle.'

On the front-line at Manbij she spent days in the same position, apparently defending civilians fleeing the conflict zone, Kurdish comrades as they advanced and shooting ISIS fighters dead at night.

'As a sniper I could be on the front line for nine days at a time,' Joanna told MailOnline.

'I would get up at 4-5am and get my SVD rifle and AK rifle my bag and two hand grenades.

'I would take up a position away from the window, find a space where it would be comfortable, lay down with only my finger on the trigger.

'I would have a headscarf over my head to cover my blonde hair and blankets over me. You have to remember to bring a bag for hygiene because you never know how long you will have to wait.

'In the daylight we defend, at night hunt and shoot.

'At night we would get close to the enemy. We would say we were 'hunting', going after ISIS, using our thermal scopes.'

Frightened: Joanna cannot understand why she is facing while people who have fought with Isis are rehabilitated. Describing her current plight, she says: 'I live in one of the best countries in the world but I am hungry and homeless and freezing cold in bed at night, even though I am working full time.. I don't trust anyone' since the law also has affected my social life. I just started to work again, but my bills from the court has been very harsh for me.'

However she only escaped death by inches when an ISIS fighter locked his sight on her during her last tour of Syria.

A friend bringing her a cup of tea took the bullet intended for Joanna. His dying body sent her falling through the derelict building on the front line where she had been hiding.

She fell almost ten feet, fracturing her skull.

'I took up a gun again after four days,' she told MailOnline matter-of-factly.

Now back in Denmark Joanna is constantly concerned about her security and never spends more than three nights in one place.

She says she was offered protection by Denmark's PET intelligence service after ISIS put the $1 million bounty on her head, but says she refused because the agency is trying to lock her up under terror laws, and she does not trust them.

Now she sleeps on friends' sofas, in shops and store-rooms, takes showers at friends' homes, relies on charities for clothes and struggles financially.

'I have given up some many things for greater justice in the Middle East and Denmark,' Joanna told MailOnline.

'I live in one of the best countries in the world but I am hungry and homeless and freezing cold in bed at night, even though I am working full time. I don't trust anyone.

'But it was all worth it.

'A look from a little girl after we have helped liberate her and her family from ISIS, those are the experiences but make it all worthwhile.'

Stunning: Facebook pictures of Joanna Palani show how the toll of fighting abroad then facing a court ordeal at home has affected the smiley, happy student, who moved to Denmark with her family when she was three

Plea: A thin and exhausted Joanna posted a video from jail when she was held initially over breaching her travel ban, top left, a complete contrast with the smiling, groomed student who posted selfies on her Facebook page, top right

Committed: Joanna was still a teenager when she dropped out of college where she was studying politics, philosophy and biology, she went to Syria to join the uprising. 'I could see the uprising in Syria was much more complicated than elsewhere in the Middle East,' she told MailOnline. Pictured: Joanna in Iraq in 2015

Fit and adventurous, Joanna loved the outdoors as a child and first picked up a rifle aged nine, at a shooting range, while on holiday in Finland.

'I remember pulling the trigger and feeling the power,' she told MailOnline.

'I wasn't any good, but I liked it a lot. I loved it in fact. I liked the power in the weapon, and the fact that the power was not even within the weapon, but in the person behind the weapon. I wanted to get better.'

She explained: 'After we came home from Finland, I begged my dad to let me begin shooting. I said; 'Baba, Baba [father, father] I want to be like you and train to be a Peshmerga fighter.'

Joanna continued to spend time with her relatives in Kurdistan, where she would spend her summer holidays from high school in Copenhagen.

So when still a teenager the winds of the Arab spring began blowing Syria Joanna was ready, she says.

Dropping out of college where she was studying politics, philosophy and biology, she went to Syria to join the uprising.

'I could see the uprising in Syria was much more complicated than elsewhere in the Middle East,' she told MailOnline.

'Millions of people were fighting for democracy I wanted to be part of it. I was 17 or 18 when I first went to see it. The females battalion wasn't created back then - that came later.

After first taking up arms against the Assad regime in Aleppo Joanna began a series of trips to Syria – increasingly turning her fire on ISIS as they mounted their rapid charge across the region.

She says she fought the fanatics at Kobane, liberated Yazidi girls imprisoned as sex slaves and switched units to fight ISIS in Iraq.

Her military career came to the attention of the Danish authorities and in September 2015, soon after she returned to Denmark on 'leave', a court issued her with a travel ban preventing her from going abroad created to stop Danes joining terror groups.

Her case also attracted a lot of attention on social media.

The stress of fighting in Syria's seemingly endless conflict has certainly taken its toll. Joanna says she suffers from frequent and debilitating headaches, has lost a lot of weight and cannot sleep, she told MailOnline. She is exhausted and her clothes are donated from a local church where she sometimes sleeps.

Estranged from her family, Joanna is effectively homeless. She told MailOnline: 'I am not looking for sympathy. I want people to understand that I don't want a thank you note [for fighting ISIS].

'I am sorry for breaking the law but I had no choice in my mind at the time. Those I risked my life for, are now taking away my freedom. I did not expect to lose almost everything for fighting for our freedom and our safety.'

I am a sniper. I like using my brain and my body to focus on the mission. You have to be very patient. You have to be very calm, you have to focus.

Joanna Palani