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ISIS bride Shamima Begum has said she believed air strikes in Syria "justified" the Manchester Arena bombing.

The 19-year-old, who wants to return to Britain, said she felt the terror attack which killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017 was part of a "two-way thing really".

She told the BBC: "I do feel that it's wrong that innocent people did get killed. It's one thing to kill a soldier that is fighting you, it's self-defence, but to kill the people like women and children...

"Just people like the women and children in Baghuz that are being killed right now unjustly, the bombings. It's a two-way thing really.

"Because women and children are being killed back in the Islamic State right now and it's kind of retaliation. Like, their justification was that it was retaliation so I thought 'OK, that is a fair justification'."

The young mother-of-three, who gave birth to her third child at the weekend, left east London with two friends in 2015 to join the terrorist group.

Since she has been there, her two older children have died.

Despite a number of interviews from a refugee camp in Syria, she has insisted she does not want media attention.

She also said she did not want to become a poster girl for IS, who used her images to promote her.

"I didn't want to be on the news at first. I know a lot of people, after they saw that me and my friends came, it actually encouraged them," she told the BBC.

"I did hear, yeah, a lot of people were encouraged to come after I left but I wasn't the one that put myself on the news. We didn't want to be on the news."

She apologised to "all the families that have lost their husbands and sons and brothers" and said attacks in Britian were "unfair".

She said the victims of such attacks were "not causing any harm" but said "neither was I".

She later told ITV News she did not see why Home Secretary Sajid Javid would see her as a threat.

"I'm a 19-year-old girl with a new born baby. I don't have any weapons; I don't want to hurt anyone even if I did have weapons or anything," she said.

"He has no proof that I was a threat other than that I was in ISIS, that's it.

"I don't know how I would be seen as a danger. I'm not going to go back and promote people to go to ISIS or anything, if anything I'm going to encourage them not to go because it's not all it seems in their videos.

"I do regret it because when I went I thought I was going to make a family and I didn't realise what the things they were doing that they weren't showing in their propaganda videos, and I actually do regret it, I do feel bad for anyone who was affected by the actions of ISIS."

The then Bethnal Green schoolgirl was aged 15 when she left from Gatwick airport.

Begum's pleas to be allowed back to Britain have sparked a national row and been met with opposition in the UK.

However, her family has pleaded for her to be able to return, while her lawyer has also spoken in strong terms for her.

Tasnime Akunjee told the Times: “The Nazis had the Nuremberg trials. They were given due process. This girl was a victim when she went out there at 15 years old.

"Our politicians are saying that she should be denied protections and due process that would have been granted to Nazis.”

He also compared her to shell shocked World War One soldiers when it was questioned whether she was truly traumatised as he spoke to Good Morning Britain.

He told BBC Breakfast: "The family have gone out of their way from day one to try to get her away from the IS narrative and the context which she finds herself in.

"She's been there for four years and we would be surprised if she hadn't been further damaged beyond the degree she had already been groomed into.

"The family are concerned, as they have been for the last four years, not just to get her away, but, as of yesterday, to make sure that their grandchild - her child - is not influenced by that sort of thinking."

Prior to having her latest child, a son named Jarrar, she had lost two children to illness and malnutrition.

In an interview at the weekend, Begum said she does not regret leaving the UK to join Islamic State in Syria, saying it made her “stronger and tougher”.

She also claimed “people should have sympathy” towards her and said she had “a good time” in Syria, stating she would not have met anyone like her Dutch jihadist husband Yago Riedijk if she had remained in the UK.

Sajid Javid said on Monday Brits who travelled to Syria or Iraq to join Islamic State "hate our country" and will be stripped of their British citizenship if the law allows.

He said more than 100 dual nationals have already lost their UK citizenship as he replied to an urgent question in the Commons.

MPs heard more than 900 people went to Syria or Iraq, with Mr Javid telling MPs: "Whatever role they took in the so-called caliphate, they all supported a terrorist organisation and in doing so they have shown they hate our country and the values we stand for."

He said: "Now this so-called caliphate is crumbling, some of them want to return and I have been very clear where I can and where any threat remains I will not hesitate to prevent this."

He added: "But we must, of course, observe international law and we cannot do this if it would leave someone stateless - so where individuals do manage to return they will be questioned, investigated and potentially prosecuted."