'Make sure you bring lingerie': Creepy ISIS jihadi grooms undercover reporter posing as 15-year-old girl looking for way to Syria

• Journalist made contact with 'Amatullah', who claimed to be a 16-year-old member of Islamic State originally from the UK
• Reporter asked jihadi what they should bring on their trip to war-torn Syria
• Was told 'Lingerie, loool…' in creepy online exchange with militant
• Detailed instructions on how to travel to Syria were also passed over

By MailOnline Reporter

A creepy ISIS militant told an undercover reporter he thought was a teenage girl to bring lingerie with her to Syria on her way to be a jihadi bride.

The journalist made contact with 'Amatullah', who claimed to be a 16-year-old member of Islamic State originally from the UK in a publically shared post on social media.

The reporter, posing as a 15-year-old girl, got a response within minutes after responding to the militant.

Detailed instructions on how to travel to Syria using an encrypted smartphone application were soon provided by the ISIS member to the 5 News reporter, using an encrypted smartphone application.

It included advice on how to evade the authorities.

The journalist was told: 'It's not hard. U dont need to know arabic there's plenty of britani bros here... U can stay with me if u want. Until u get married.'

'Comeasap. There's sisters coming every day.'

When the reporter posing as a teenage girl interest in heading to Syria was asked what to pack on her journey to the war-torn country, they were told: 'Lingerie, loool…'

Jim Gamble, the former chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, said radicalisation of young people needs to be treated as online grooming.

He said: 'We need to recognise as people, as a government, that radicalisation in the online world is grooming.

'These people are child abusers and we need to recognise that and we need to be using the language of child abusers when we talk about these thugs who radicalise our children and put them in harm's way.'

Last month, three schoolgirls from London left their homes to travel join jihadis.

Bethnal Green teenagers Shamima Begum and Amira Abase, both 15, and 16-year-old Kadiza Sultana are all thought to now be Syria after last month flying to Turkey and travelling on by bus.

Last year, Bristol girl Yusra Hussien joined Islamic State at just 15 years old.

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Police have admitted they should have communicated more directly with the families of three teenage girls who are feared to have traveled to Syria to join Isis.

Scotland Yard said that 'with the benefit of hindsight' letters addressed to seven girls' families about a 15-year-old fellow pupil at Bethnal Green Academy in east London who joined Islamic State could have been delivered directly to their parents.

Instead, they were given to the schoolgirls to pass on, days before three of them - Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase - sparked a police hunt after they flew from Gatwick to Istanbul on February 17.

The force said that it now understood that not all of the letters were passed on.

The families of the schoolgirls say they were let down by the Metropolitan Police and accuse officers of covering up their errors since the girls went missing. 

At first the force claimed today that the parents had already been made aware by the school's deputy head that the 15-year-old girl had gone to Syria. But it later issued a clarification stating that the deputy head had merely told the families that the girl had gone missing.

A spokesman explained that officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) held a meeting with the seven girls on February 5.

He said: 'In this meeting an SO15 officer handed letters to each of the girls, addressed to their parents, requesting their daughters' further co-operation as part of the investigation.

'We now understand that these letters were not passed on in every case.

'With the benefit of hindsight, we acknowledge that the letters could have been delivered direct to the parents.'

Abase Hussein, the father of Amira, believes his daughter would still be at home if he had seen the police warning. 'If we knew, this wouldn't have happened,' he told ITV News yesterday.

'We would have stopped them. We would have discussed it and taken away their passports from them. This wouldn't have happened.'

Halima Khanom, sister of Kadiza Sultana, said: 'We wouldn't have been here today doing this if we'd got that letter and known what was going on.'

Scotland Yard said the investigation into all of the missing girls continues.

The family spokesperson Anira Khokha told 5 News: 'I think people forget they are being sexually exploited. Of course they are being groomed.'

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