In accordance with paragraph 13 of resolution 1822 (2008) and subsequent related resolutions, the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee makes accessible a narrative summary of reasons for the listing for individuals, groups, undertakings and entities included in the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.
Sally-Anne Frances Jones was listed on 28 September 2015 pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 4 of resolution 2161 (2014) as being associated with Al-Qaida for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of”, “recruiting for” and “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115).
Sally-Anne Jones travelled from the the United Kingdom to the Syrian Arab Republic in 2013 to join Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115), alongside her husband, Junaid Hussain (not listed).
Jones has an active social media presence and uses social media to recruit women to join ISIL and has provided practical advice on how to travel to the Syrian Arab Republic to support ISIL.
Under the pseudonym Umm Hussain al-Britani, Jones has posted messages in support of ISIL as well as extremist comments on social media, writing: “You Christians all need beheading with a nice blunt knife and stuck on the railings at Raqqa... Come here I’ll do it for you.” Jones has also posted images of herself on social media posing with weapons. In August 2015, Jones encouraged individuals purporting to aspire to conduct attacks in the United Kingdom offering guidance on how to construct homemade bombs.