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Iraq: ISIS Leader’s Wife Not Captured

CONFUSING

Claims she’s wife of bomber.

According to Iraq’s interior ministry, the purported wife of ISIS’s leader held in Lebanon is not in fact his actual wife. Saja al-Duleimi’s identity doesn’t fit with either of the two women known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wives, the ministry said. However, the Lebanese military says it has conducted a DNA test on the boy captured with her and that he is Baghdadi’s son. According to the Iraqi ministry, Saja al-Duleimi is the sister of a man sentenced to death in Iraq for a series of bombings. There has been consistent confusion over who the woman arrested coming from Syria is, but reports indicate that somebody tipped the Lebanese off to her border crossing.

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