| Not quite the innocent, love-sick philosophy student she has been claiming to be. |
| The usual Daily Mail collection of photos at the link. She looks just like a sweet young thing. |
He and his accomplices are feared to be recruiters of potential women jacket wallahs.
But Karaulova told the jihadi that the secret agents were bugging their conversations, she admitted to the judge after appearing in court.
She now faces up to ten years in jail if convicted of seeking to join a terrorist group called Badr which includes many ethnic Chechens from southern Russia.
Earlier she and her family claimed that packing lace lingerie and bed linen for her trip proved she was not travelling to Syria to become a terrorist or even a suicide bomber, but because she loved 36-year-old Samatov who she had only met online. She told how after she was halted at the border and reunited with her parents, she ended her plans to go to Syria because although she loved Samatov,she loved her mother and father more and did not want to 'hurt' them.
The woman then agreed to assist the FSB by continuing to talk to the suspected terrorist on the internet, knowing that her conversations were being monitored by the FSB. But then she tipped him off via a messenger service that the secret service were trying to compromise him, she admitted.
| Prosecutors say she also used various other names online to hide her identity in chatting to the Lion of Islam, and was actively plotting another attempt to reach Syria. |
She told the court as she wept: 'I felt very lonely, I loved him, I missed him very much.
'At that moment I was sure that he was concerned about me. '
'At first I just wanted to tell that I was okay, but then I just could not stop.'
In one message to her, he told her: 'I wish I am sent to Russia to blow up something.'
Yet she also admitted that earlier, before her trip, when Samatov had disappeared for two months she abruptly went through an online 'wedding ceremony' with another jihadi. He sent her £200 for a trip to Syria before Samatov reappeared and demanded she return to him, which she did.
She added: 'I was missing Samatov. He asked me to forgive him for another girl he had at this time. I was desperate for him to call me to join him.'
Prosecutors told the court she had undertaken physical and combat training and 'was, for that reason, capable of fulfilling any tasks.'
Yet according to her testimony she had a naive and starry-eyed view about ISIS, despite being a high-flying A-grade university student. She claimed she had not followed the news and was attracted to travelling to meet her jihadi boyfriend because 'ISIS is a country that cares for its people.'
Under questioning from the judge, she said: 'People don't smoke there nor drink alcohol.'
She testified: 'It is a country where the main goal is not to make money but to care for people and children'
Denying she was being recruited as a suicide bomber, she said: 'A woman is treated like a treasure.
'She is valued for her brain and abilities and not only for her beauty.'
Claiming in court she was motivated only by love, she said: 'I have not joined anything.
'I am not a terrorist and I was certainly not going to become one.
'When these words about suicide bombers are uttered, I don't know even what word to choose. It's impossible even to listen to all these things.'