Extra.ie: JIHADI BRIDE LISA SMITH ‘TRAINED YOUNG GIRLS IN SYRIA TO USE WEAPONS’
“ISIS bride Lisa Smith allegedly trained children in weapons while she was in Syria, sources who are investigating the activities of the group have told Extra.ie. The Louth woman, who is being held with her two-year-old daughter in Al Hawl camp on the Syria-Iraq border, said she never held a weapon while there, despite 10 years of Irish military training. Syrian sources have listed her as a member of a Western-only female military battalion, led by notorious jihadi Sally Jones. According to the not-for-profit Counter Extremism Project, Jones was given permission by Isis to start the battalion and plan to carry out attacks in the West.”
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.