The Osage County woman accused of fighting for ISIS and trying to recruit women to the terrorist organization has a detention hearing later this week.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, had her first appearance in court in Virginia on Monday. She faces one count of providing material support to a terrorist organization and faces 20 years in federal prison if convicted.
Fluke-Ekren’s LinkedIn page lists her as being from Overbrook in Osage County as a teacher in the New Vision International School. Court papers indicate she moved to Egypt in 2008.
The US Attorney’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia, says Fluke-Ekren had been involved in terror planning since at least 2014. She allegedly tried to recruit women for an all-female unit to attack a college campus in the United States and, according to authorities, discussed a potential terror attack on a shopping mall using a vehicle bomb in a basement or parking garage. She also allegedly led weapons training for women involved in ISIS.
