ISIL head’s uncle nabbed in Iraq: Sources
Iraqi security forces have apprehended two senior ISIL commanders believed to be relatives of the terrorist group’s leader, Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi security sources say.
The arrests were made on Sunday following a security operation near the city of Samarra in Salaheddin Province, Iraq’s state-owned television cited an unnamed security source as saying.
“A group from the Regiment Special Assignments was able to arrest Baghdadi’s uncle, named Saleh Ibrahim Abdulmomen and niece’s husband Dhiya Nouri Sadoun,” the source from the southern Dhi Qar governorate’s police said
Last December, Lebanese Interior Ministry announced that the young daughter of Baghdadi along with her mother was held in the country.
On December 2, 2014, Lebanon’s security officials said they had detained the ISIL head’s wife and son at a border crossing with Syria. However, the Iraqi government later said she was not married to Baghdadi.
Baghdad said the woman, identified as Saja al-Dulaimi, was the daughter of a member of the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front in Syria.
A day later, Lebanon’s Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said Dulaimi is not Baghdadi's wife currently, adding, “She has been married three times: first to a man from the former Iraqi regime, with whom she had two sons.”
He further said that she was married to Baghdadi several years ago “for three months and she had a daughter with him.”
The Lebanese minister noted that DNA tests on her and the daughter confirmed that she is the mother of the girl who is Baghdadi's “daughter, based on DNA from Baghdadi from Iraq.”
The ISIL terrorists currently control large areas of Iraq and Syria. The group sent its militants into Iraq in June 2014, seizing large parts of land straddling the border between Syria and Iraq.
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