My first contact with the woman calling herself Umm Isa al Amriki was in   December last year.
At the time I believed she was American. That is what the analysts and researchers monitoring her social media handles believed. 
I messaged her asking to chat. "How may I help you?" she replied. When I told her I was a reporter and I wanted to talk to her about the lives of the women living in the Caliphate in Syria she replied: "Whatever you are looking for is in dawlah (ISIS) videos. They speak the truth.
"If you would like to know further, read the seerah of the Prophet Mohammad (peace and blessing of Allah upon him) and the Quran. You will find your Answers in them." Later, in   January, when I asked again if we could chat further, she suggested research into Islam and women could help me.
She replied: "If you have studied and seeing that you are curious about women in Islam you probably have looked into how Muslim women were at the time of the Prophet Mohammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) especially how they were treated at his time.
"Also you must have looked into how Muslim women should be.
"If you have not done that research then I am sure if you do you will get your Answers." By   February the replies were more frosty when I asked if any of the Australian women in Syria might like to chat with me.
She replied: "No one wants to chat with u. The women live their normal lives here, only differences is that they live under the Quran and Sunnah with constant bombardments from you kuffars (non-believers)." She questioned why I remained silent and did not speak against the kuffars who were bombing the Islamic State.
"You claim you are innocent from this yet you don't do anything when women here who just live their normal lives are killed," she said. "It is these women who are innocent." And in response to my question about Australian women, she said: "The Australian women will not speak with you, they have better things to do.
"You want to speak with them so you can spy? So you can go ahead and write lies and spread it on the news?" At this stage it was still not clear that Umm Isa al Amriki was Shadi Jabar from Sydney.
Asked if any of the Australians or the children of Khaled Sharrouf and Tara Nettleton, who had reportedly died, wanted to come home to Australia, she snapped: "No one wants to come back, why would they?
"Even if they do they will be jailed anyway. The hospitals here take priority on the women who made hijrah than those native ones. You will not say the truth."After   February 11 the woman who we now know was Shadi Jabar was no longer conversing with me.