Tania Georgelas was an ISIS bride in Syria (Picture: Facebook)

A former Isis bride says she still has feelings for her terror chief ex, despite turning her back on the group.

Tania Georgelas, now 33 and a Christian convert, grew up in Harrow and eventually married American’s top ISIS fighter, having four children and living in Syria.

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She met her husband John Georgelas through a Muslim dating website and married in October 2004.


She told The Atlantic: ‘I faced a lot of racism, I was looking for a way to retaliate, and I wanted honour again.

‘I’ve had these children for one reason only, and that was so they could serve god as Muslims, as mujahideen.’



Georgelas, who changed his name to Yahya al-Bahrumi, is still in Syria.

He helped her leave the group after she raised concerns about the family’s health, and she now lives in Texas with his parents and their children.

She still admits feelings towards her former husband, who she has now divorced.

‘He thought what he was doing was for the greater good,’ she insisted.

‘I can’t help but love him. I don’t know how to make that feeling stop.’

Tania was one of five children of British-Bangladeshi couple Nural, who worked as a senior postmaster, and Jahanara Choudhury.

She claims September 11 terror attacks on America was the turning point for her radicalisation.

She said: ‘I saw the towers being crashed into and I went to school the next day,’ she recalled. ‘I said to my friend: “Oh isn’t it dreadful what happened?” and she looked at me and said: ‘Is it really? At that point I became really jihadi hardcore.

John Georgelas was one of the most highest ranking westerners in ISIS (Picture: Atlantic)

She enrolled in a college in East London and starting hanging around with a group of ultra-Conservative Algerian Muslims and began wearing a full veil.

When she attending an anti-war protest she was given a card with the address of a Muslim match-making service.

A month after first speaking in March 2003 a month later he flew from Texas to London and three days later they were married in a Muslim ceremony.

After living a short time in America the pair travelled to Damascus in Syria before moving back to Texas where George was jailed in 2006 for providing IT assistance to jihadi websites.

After he was released from jail in 2011 the pair immediately flew to London and then to Cairo.

Tania Georgelas with her new boyfriend Craig at church (Picture: The Atlantic)

In 2013, they began discussing joining ISIS in Syria, by then they had three children and one on the way.

She said: ‘John wanted to go to Syria, and I said I wasn’t ready, not while the kids are small.’

However, they still went and in August 2013, the family travelled to Syria by bus, setting up home in the abandoned villa of a Syrian general in the town of A’zaz.



With no running water and food shortages Tania and the children became ill with vomiting bugs and infections.

Weeks later she convinced her husband to let her leave the warzone, she was smuggled into Turkey and then headed back to America.

She divorced him and he still remains with the remnants of the terrorists state, where is seems destined to die as forces move in to finish off ISIS.

Tania moved in with his parents and is now back on the dating scene and met an IT programmer called Craig who she met on an online dating website, writing in her profile: ‘I have four kids, my husband abandoned me to go become the next Osama Bin Ladin.’

She attends a local church and wants to work in a deradicalisation scheme to help other people in her position.

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