Saja Dulaimi

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Saja al-Dulaimi
Born 1988 (age 35–36)
Nationality Iraq
Other names
  • Saga al-Dulaimi
  • Saja Hamid al-Dulaimi
  • Saja Dulaimi
Known for Married to the emir of Daesh

Saja Dulaimi was briefly married to Hisham Mohammad, also known as the emir of Daesh, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.[1]

Accounts differ as to when she was married to him, and for how long.[2] Accounts seem to agree that Lebanon's border guards captured Dulaimi, while she was crossing the border from Syria, and that she was detained, for months, in 2014.[3]

The Israel National News reported that she was pregnant when apprehended, and that a DNA analysis of a child she gave birth to in custody confirmed that al-Baghdadi was the child's father.[4] But according to other accounts Dulaimi was married to al-Baghdadi in 2008.[5] The marraige was arranged through her relatives, after she was widowed. She found him distant, his first wife didn't like her, she didn't love him, so she left him after three months, when she became pregnant. She says he made multiple efforts to get her to return to him, and that they last spoke in 2009. She says she hadn't told him that she was pregnant. She says that, if she remarried, he would take their child.

Dulaimi's first husband had been one of Saddam Hussein's bodyguards. He was killed fighting Americans.

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References

  1. Cassandra Winograd (2015-02-24). "ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's Ex-Wife Saja al-Dulaimi Speaks". NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-s-ex-wife-saja-n548356. Retrieved 2019-02-27. 
  2. Ben Hubbard, Eric Schmitt (2014-12-04). "Discord Persists About Woman Said to Be a Wife of ISIS Chief". The New York Times: p. A9. Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20160406180430/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/world/middleeast/isis-abu-bakr-baghdadi-wife-lebanon-iraq.html. Retrieved 2019-02-27. "Days after Lebanese officials claimed to have arrested a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the Islamic State jihadist organization, they continue to disagree with officials in Iraq who say the woman was never married to Mr. Baghdadi and has relatives in a rival extremist group." 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Ben Hubbard, Eric Schmitt (2014-12-02). "Lebanon Detains ISIS Leader’s Relatives, One of Them His Daughter". The New York Times (Beirut, Lebanon): p. A16. Archived from the original on 2016-04-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20160406162339/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/world/middleeast/lebanon-said-to-detain-wife-and-son-of-isis-leader.html. Retrieved 2019-02-27. "Lebanese security officials had reported earlier that Mr. Baghdadi’s wife and one son had been arrested more than a week ago while trying to enter Lebanon from Syria. But American officials said that the child was a girl and that it remained unclear whether her mother was Mr. Baghdadi’s legal wife, common-law wife or former wife." 
  4. Shoshana Miskin (2016-02-29). "Report: German wife of ISIS leader escapes". Israel National News. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/208680. Retrieved 2019-02-27. "This is not the first a former spouse escaped from al-Baghdadi. In 2014, the Lebanese authorities captured a pregnant Saja Dulaimi who gave birth in prison to a baby girl confirmed as al-Baghdadi daughter by DNA analysis, according to reports." 
  5. Ashley Fantz (2016-04-01). "Ex-wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: I want a new life in Europe". CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/31/europe/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-isis-ex-wife-interview/index.html. Retrieved 2019-02-27. 
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