ISIS bride Kirsty Rosse-Emile dripped with entitlement as she demanded Australia rescue her from Syrian hellhole. Now, the first sign emerges she WILL be held responsible for her actions
The Australian Federal Police have launched a probe into an ISIS bride after the Daily Mail revealed she once told her ex-housemate: ‘I want to go and make bombs.’
Kirsty Rosse-Emile, 31, is one of 11 Australian women pleading with the Albanese government to help them return home from Syrian refugee camps with their collective 23 children.
Rosse-Emile previously claimed she was tricked 12 years ago into entering the warzone with her Islamic State fighter husband Nabil Kadmiry, who she married when she was just 14.
When speaking with the ABC last year, she refused to explain how she ended up in Syria because it ‘could create problems for me’.
However, her former housemate Sara* told the Daily Mail on Monday that Rosse-Emile, who was known by her Islamic name Asma, knew exactly what she was doing when she flew to Syria to pledge allegiance to IS.
Rosse-Emile was about 17 and staying in a self-contained unit attached to Sara’s place on the outskirts of Melbourne in 2010 when a mutual friend asked whether she wanted to go back to school.
‘Asma turned around and said “I don’t want to go to school, I want to go and make bombs”,’ Sara recalled.
It can now be confirmed the AFP is looking into Rosse-Emile and contacted Sara about the situation on Tuesday.
Kirsty Rosse-Emile is pictured before she moved to Syria with her IS fighter husband Nabil Kadmiry
Pictured: Rosse-Emile, crying while telling the ABC that ‘it’s not my choice to be here’
Kirsty Rosse-Emile is pictured last week, bottom right with a blue and white head scarf, during a botched attempt to escape Syria and return to Australia
Sara said she told police that allowing the ISIS brides to return home could place Australia at serious risk of another terror attack, like the Bondi Beach massacre in December when 15 Jewish people were killed in an act of antisemitism.
‘I told [AFP] the government doesn’t always get it right,’ Sara said.
‘I also told them we don’t want to say, “well, she was suspected of terrorism, but we let her back into the country anyway”.’
Sara said it didn’t matter if Rosse-Emile really did intend to live a quiet life in Australia, it would be difficult for her to expunge her extremist beliefs.
‘This wasn’t her mentality when she was 14, this was when she was a married woman, and it wasn’t something that she made up on the spot,’ she said.
‘Even if she doesn’t want to do that anymore, she would still have that mentality and we don’t want that here.’
Sara said she was willing to stand up in court and testify against Rosse-Emile if that’s what it took to keep her out of Australia.
In her message to the Albanese government last year, Rosse-Emile said: ‘Hello, I’m here. Can you just come and get me, finally, and my children and all the other Australians here?
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Pictured: The Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett
Kirsty Rosse-Emile married a future IS fighter when she was 14 years old
Pictured: Kirsty Rosse-Emile wearing a niqab, after she married Nabil Kadmiry
‘We’re ready to start our lives afresh.’
Supportive statements about IS can still be seen on Rosse-Emile’s Facebook pages, uploaded before she left for Syria.
The posts read, ‘Jihad. The only solution’ and ‘Lions of Islam’, overlaid with images of terrorist figures.
Her father last year responded to Rosse-Emile’s claims that she was tricked into entering Syria, telling The Nightly that his daughter was lying.
‘When she said, “Oh, I was tricked” and all that, it’s not true,’ he said.
‘In the way of Islam, when we go and fight for the cause of Allah, either you’re victorious or you are vanquished, but you don’t surrender, because it’s one of the greatest sins that somebody could [commit].
‘I’m a Muslim. I tell the truth. I am not going to lie to anybody. Allah will punish me if I lie.’
He said the Australian government should settle the refugees in a Muslim country like Turkey.
Kirsty Rosse-Emile is pictured, left, with other ISIS brides attempting to travel from Al Roj refugee camp, in Syria’s northeast, to the capital Damascus last week
‘That’s what she wanted – she wanted to be in a Muslim country’, he said, where Sharia law would always be enforced.
Her husband Nabil Kadmiry was captured during the territorial defeat of IS in 2019 and is believed to be languishing in a Kurdish prison.
Other Australians fighting to come home include Nesrine Zahab and her aunt Aminah Zahab and cousin Sumaya Zahab, along with Kawsar Abbas and her daughters Zeinab and Zahra Ahmed, Janai Safar, Hodan Abby, Kawsar Kanj and Hyam Raad.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said last week that one of the women is the subject of a temporary exclusion order on national security grounds, which could ban her from entering Australia for two years.
The identity of that woman remains unclear.
