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Sky News commentator Peta Credlin has unleashed at the Anthony Albanese government after footage emerged of ISIS brides and their children visiting Kmart and McDonald’s within 48 hours of returning to Australia.
Four women, all of whom married terrorists, and their 13 children touched down in Sydney on Saturday after being removed from the al-Roj camp in Syria near the Iraqi border.
It has since been revealed the women are unlikely to face police action, aren’t required to wear ankle monitoring bracelets and won’t be subject to 24 hour police supervision.
Some of the women were spotted together at a McDonald’s in south-west Sydney on Tuesday.
One of the ISIS brides, Mariam Dabboussy, was also spotted at a Kmart and playground in western Sydney with her family, sparking anger from politicians blindsided by the federal government’s decision to bring them home.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is demanding answers from Canberra about the safety and security risks of the ISIS brides in the community, as has western Sydney independent MP Dai Le.
A fired up Credlin weighed into the saga on Tuesday night as she slammed the Prime Minister over his decision to allow the ISIS brides to return – something she says has not been properly explained to the public.
Footage has emerged of some of the ISIS brides and their families at a McDonald’s in Punchbowl in south-west Sydney on Tuesday, which has sparked widespread anger
‘Whether you agree with the decision or you don’t, nonetheless it’s dead wrong for the prime minister to hide from something as big as this,’ Credlin fumed.
‘If you want to make a decision like this, then have the guts to front the camera and defend it.
‘No one wants to see children suffer for the crimes of their parents, but that can’t excuse the Albanese government’s total failure even to explain, let alone to justify, letting Jihadi families returning to Australia.’
‘Not one minister has so far fronted the camera to justify the decision to bring these Jihadis back and no questions have been asked to the prime minister by the media.’
A former advisor and chief of staff to former Coalition prime minister Tony Abbott, Credlin said while the government has a duty to all Australians, including the ISIS brides and their families, it also has a responsibility to the community as a whole.
‘It’s completely shirked its duty to explain how the safety of a few women who rejected Australia to join terrorist groups abroad trumps the safety of the wider population,’ her rant continued.
‘They shouldn’t have terrorists or terrorist sympathisers living in a street next to them.’
She acknowledged there’s a possibility the women have seen the error of their ways and now reject the same ideologies they abandoned Australia for.
Peta Credlin (pictured) called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to ‘show some guts’ and explain the decision to allow ISIS brides and their families to return
Fowler federal independent MP Dai Le described the situation as concerning for her electorate in Sydney’s south-west.
She recently wrote to the Home Affairs minister Clare O’Neil requesting for a briefing but is yet to receive any information.
‘There has been a cloak of secrecy over this whole repatriation issue,’ Ms Le told the Today show on Wednesday.
There has been no transparency over this repatriation from the government and here to the families in Fowler in south-west Sydney, where the majority of those families have escaped the ISIS state and ISIS families.
Ms Le vowed to demand answers when parliament resumes next week.
‘We’re supposed to be a new government, supposed to build that trust for the community,’ she argued.
This is the thing that you do. How are you going to build trust to change the political system if you’re not going to deal with an issue like this up front?’
Mariam Dabboussy (pictured with two of her children and father in Syria) was spotted enjoying a visit to a park with her three children in Sydney’s west this week
Ms Dabboussy is now back at her family home near Blacktown and was spotted enjoying a visit to a park with her three children and father this week.
She’s subject of voluntary orders but is not subject to strict terrorism control orders.
In a 2019 interview, Bankstown-born Dabboussy previously said she was tricked into entering Syria in mid-2015 by her terrorist husband Kaled Zahab, who died shortly after they arrived.
Shayma Assaad, 22, and her four children are also believed to have returned to Sydney on Saturday.
She was taken to Syria when she was just 15 and married to an older Islamic State member, Sydney tradie Mohammed Noor Masri, who remains in jail in Syria.
Dabboussy’s sister-in-law, 31-year-old Mariam Raad, was also on Saturday’s plane home with her four children.
Raad is the widow of Muhammad Zahab, a former western Sydney maths teacher who became one of Australia’s most senior IS leaders.
He is said to have lured at least a dozen of his extended family to Syria, including brother Kaled.
In a statement, the women said: ‘We are deeply thankful to be back home in Australia with our children.
Shayma Assaad (pictured) was 15 when she moved to Syria from Australia with her parents, and later married Mohammed Noor Masri, 26. She and her four children are also believed to have now returned to Sydney
The women and children were removed from the al-Roj camp near the Iraqi border in an operation involving Australian officials and the Syrian Democratic Forces. They are now in Sydney. Pictured: Female ISIS fighters
Earlier this month, the Albanese government confirmed a rescue plan to bring home 16 women and 42 children who are families of IS members from the camp
‘We want to express our regret for the trouble and hurt we have caused, especially to our families. We are willing to do whatever is asked of us by the government authorities to ensure the safety of our families and the Australian community and we will fully cooperate with all Australian law enforcement agencies.
‘Once our children have received medical treatment, are healthy, and are ready, we want to see them lead a normal and safe life in Australia, surrounded by friends and family. We also want to be able to contribute to the Australian community and are grateful for the opportunity to do so.
‘Together with our children, we have been through a terrible ordeal over many years. We ask for space, privacy and time to heal and reconnect with our loved ones in Australia.’
Earlier this month, the Albanese government confirmed a rescue plan to bring home 16 women and 42 children who are families of IS members from the camp.
Pictured: Islamic State terrorists march through Syria
Who is Mariam Dabboussy?
Mariam Dabboussy was not a devout Muslim but her life changed at 22 when she married Kaled Zahab (pictured)
Mariam Dabboussy was not a devout Muslim, but her life changed at age 22 when she married Kaled Zahab.
The woman, who had been a childcare and migrant support worker in Sydney, went to the Middle East in mid-2015 with her husband and their 18-month-old child.
Ms Dabboussy travelled to Lebanon with her husband only to be ‘tricked’ into going to Syria, she said.
‘It started off as a normal holiday,’ Ms Dabboussy said.
‘My husband had never left the country at the time. So, it was the first time he had agreed to take me overseas.
‘We had a really nice holiday planned. We went to Malaysia, took me to Dubai, we went to Lebanon.’
Ms Dabboussy was initially taken from Lebanon to a house in southern Turkey near the Syria border.
From there, she was driven to a dusty patch of land.
‘There was other people there and there was… there was a man there,’ she said.
‘And he started telling us, ”Run before they shoot, Run before they start shooting.” And we didn’t know what was going on.
‘I looked around, I’m thinking, ”What am I going to do?” I’m in the middle of nowhere, I don’t even know where I am. There’s gunshots. Now I just started running.’
She didn’t get far, with men bundling her into a car and taking her to a house, which had a black Islamic State flag.
‘When I entered that house and I saw a flag, I saw a flag and I sort of asked around,’ Ms Dabboussy said.
‘Some women, they spoke very broken Arabic, they didn’t really speak. They were sort of surprised I didn’t know what was going on. Some of them laughed at me.’
The man Ms Dabboussy married is now dead, after being killed by a coalition airstrike three months later.
The mother-of-three has since been forced to remarry twice more.
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