The teenager who ran away from the UK to join ISIS has revealed the name of her newborn son.
Shamima Begum, 19, has called the boy Jarrah, a name which means 'one who wounds' or 'able fighter' in Arabic.
Her terrorist husband, Yago Riedijk, who she married in 2015 within three weeks of leaving for Syria, asked that the boy be named Jarrah.
It was also the name of her first son who died in infancy, the Mirror reports.
A girl she gave birth to also died while she served as a 'housewife' and 'poster girl for ISIS'.
In an interview with the BBC today she admitted she would have let her first son fight for ISIS but now wants to raise her third child in the UK.
She told Sky News: "It's a boy. I named him after my old son [who died] - that's what my husband wanted."
The name is also linked to Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, known for massacring Jews.
Historian and author Tom Holland suggested: “If she’d wanted to signal that she was returning to Britain in peace, she might have considered naming her baby after someone other than Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah.
“[He was] a general from the early days of the Arab conquests chiefly famed for beating the crap out of infidels.”
According to Radio Islam, al-Jarrah was a merchant who was “one of the ten companions of the Prophet Muhammad who were promised Paradise as mentioned in early Islamic historical accounts and records.
“He remained commander of a large section of Muslim armies during the time of the Caliph ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab RA and was on the list of Umar’s appointed successors to the Caliphate.”
The 19-year-old said she had been attracted to go to Syria after seeing news and videos on the internet which emphasised the role of family, adding that her biggest priority now was her son.
But she admitted she knew the group was carrying out beheadings and executions before she left, adding that she was "OK with it at first".
Asked if she felt she made a mistake travelling to Syria, she said: "In a way, yes, but I don't regret it because it's changed me as a person. It's made me stronger, tougher, you know.
"I married my husband, I wouldn't have found someone like him back in the UK.
"I had my kids, I did have a good time there. It's just that then things got harder and I couldn't take it any more and I had to leave."
The teenager was one of three schoolgirls, along with Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase, from Bethnal Green Academy who left the UK to travel to Syria in February 2015.
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She told The Times last week while heavily pregnant that she wishes to bring up her baby in the UK, and her family have begged for her to be shown mercy and to be allowed to return to east London.
She said she felt "a lot of people should have sympathy for me" as she did not know what she was getting into when she left the UK, before acknowledging that it would be "really hard" to be rehabilitated into British society.
She said: "It would be really hard, everything I have been through.
"I'm still kind of in the mentality of planes over my head and having the emergency backpack and starving and all these things.
"It would be a really big shock to go back to the UK and start a life again."
