'She's a terrorist. We don't need people like her': Pompeo slams ISIS bride begging to return to US

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• Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that "ISIS bride" Hoda Muthana is "not a US citizen" and will not be permitted to return to the US.
• "We don’t need people like her who threatened the lives of Americans," he told Dave Levora of AM Quad Cities, WOC Radio.
• Muthana was smuggled into Syria in November 2014 to join the Islamic State, and in 2015 she posted on Twitter, advocating for violence against Americans.
• Her family, who insists she is a US citizen, is suing the US government to allow their daughter to return to the US, where she was born.
• The lawsuit hit a speed bump on Monday. A federal judge rejected a request to expedite the litigation process, which might not be completed until summer.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continued his argument against allowing the US-born "ISIS bride" Hoda Muthana to return home, telling a radio host on Monday, "we don’t need people like her who threatened the lives of Americans."

Muthana, 24, left Alabama where she was living with her family, and in November of 2014 she was was smuggled into Syria to join the Islamic State. There she married a succession of IS militants and gave birth to the son of a now-deceased IS fighter.

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