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soldier , Lisa Smith , was found guilty of Islamic State member- ship .
Smith was a member of the group between October 2015 to De- cember 2019 . She had traveled to Syria and pledged allegiance to then Islamic State leader
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi . Accord- ing to the Irish Special Criminal Court ’ s finding , Smith she was well aware of the viciousness of the regime and its goals .
Other charges against Smith , including terrorist findings , were not substantiated . In July
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( A former Irish soldier , who became an IS bride but now lives in a Syria refugee camp with her child , says she wasn ’ t involved in fighting and did not train girls to become fighters . Courtesy of BBC News and YouTube . Posted on Jul 8 , 2019 .)
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