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The women and their children who lived under Islamic State rule have been held against their will in the al-Hol and al-Roj camps since the terror group's defeat in 2019.
A group of two women and four children returned to Australia in late September, six years after the terror organisation's defeat, but the government has consistently maintained that it was not involved in their removal from Syria.
Islamic State spokesmanAbu Hassan al-Muhajir (kunya) emerged after nearly six months of silence to argue that Christchurch was "enough to wake the sleep" and to incite supporters against the "nations of the Cross and the apostate". He also likened the attacks to the battle raging in Baghuz, the last village then under Islamic State control in Syria.
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