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Alexandria (United States) (AFP) – On a scale of one to 10 of jihadist radicalization, an American woman alleged to have led an all-female Islamic State battalion in Syria was described by someone who knew her there as an “11 or a 12.” Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, a school teacher who grew up on a farm in Kansas, made a brief appearance in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday facing terrorism charges. Fluke-Ekren, who was dressed in a black headscarf and a green T-shirt reading “Alexandria Inmate,” was ordered to be held in detention until trial. The trajectory of the midwestern wo…