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<h3><span style="color:#073763;">What&#8217;s it like being married to the world&#8217;s most-wanted terrorist? </span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#660000;">Ex-wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has spoken of their marriage<br />
Saja al-Dulaimi called world&#8217;s most wanted terrorist a &#8216;normal family man&#8217;<br />
But she told of pair&#8217;s &#8216;shallow&#8217; and unhappy marriage before she left him<br />
Al-Dulaimi said her ex &#8216;loved their children&#8217; but spoke only to give orders<br />
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Insight: Saja al-Dulaimi, the ex-wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (pictured), has described the world&#8217;s most wanted terrorist as a &#8216;normal family man&#8217; who &#8216;loved their children&#8217; but spoke only to give orders</b></h6>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">The ex-wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has described the world&#8217;s most wanted terrorist as a &#8216;normal family man&#8217; who &#8216;loved their children&#8217; but spoke only to give orders.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Saja al-Dulaimi told how she met and married who she thought was a university lecturer, only to discover seven years later he was &#8216;the most dangerous man in the world.&#8217;</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Lifting the lid on what she described as their &#8216;shallow&#8217; and unhappy marriage, al-Dulaimi told how al-Baghdadi had a &#8216;mysterious personality&#8217; and she dared not have discussions with him.</span></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size:small;"><b>Tough to live with: Lifting the lid on what she described as their &#8216;shallow&#8217; and unhappy marriage, al-Dulaimi (pictured) told how al-Baghdadi had a &#8216;mysterious personality&#8217; and she dared not have discussions with him</b></span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">&#8216;I didn&#8217;t love him,&#8217; she told Swedish newspaper Expressen. &#8216;He was an enigmatic person. You couldn&#8217;t have a discussion or hold a normal conversation with him … He just asked about things and told me to fetch things. He gave orders, nothing more.&#8217;</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Al-Dulaimi told how al-Baghdadi would disappear for days at a time but she had no suspicions of his involvement in the Syrian resistance while they were together.</span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">&#8216;He was a normal family man,&#8217; she added. &#8216;How he could become emir of the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world is a mystery.&#8217;</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">She said that after her first husband died in an Iraqi resistance group her uncle approached her father about a potential new husband looking for a widow.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Al-Dulaimi then moved her and her young twin boys in with al-Baghdadi and his first wife and her children, an arrangement she described as &#8216;tough&#8217; in such a small space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:small;"><b>ISIS leader <span class="irc_su" dir="ltr">Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi dead in Iraq</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size:small;"><b>Al-Dulaimi said she only knew of what al-Baghdadi had become when she was arrested in Lebanon in 2014 for trying to cross the border illegally. She and her new husband had used forged identity cards</b></span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Her children looked at the ISIS leader as their &#8216;idol&#8217;, she said, but al-Dulaimi told how she fled from him after just a few months while pregnant with a daughter, Hagar.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">She claims the last time she spoke to her ex-husband was in 2009 when he asked her to come back and she refused.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Al-Dulaimi said she only knew of what al-Baghdadi had become when she was arrested in Lebanon in December 2014 for trying to cross the border illegally. She and her new husband had used forged identity cards.</span></div>
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<div class="mol-article-quote-wrapper ccox"><span style="color:#666666;"><span style="font-size:large;"><i>&#8216;He was an enigmatic person. You couldn&#8217;t have a discussion or hold a normal conversation with him</i></span>&#8216; </span>&#8211; <b>Saja al-Dulaimi on the leader of ISIS </b></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">It was then she was shown pictures of al-Baghdadi and asked if she recognised him.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Al-Dulaimi was released by Lebanon a year later in a prisoner swap with Al-Qaeda&#8217;s Syrian wing.</span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Fully veiled and clutching her six-month-old baby, she was shown in live TV footage with her three children, who were with her in prison, as she was released as part of a deal brokered by neighbouring Qatar.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">In return for her and 12 Islamists, Lebanon got 16 captured soldiers back from Al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front, as well as one of the bodies of the two prisoners they had killed.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">She revealed at the time how she planned to go to Turkey. Al-Dulaimi was interviewed in a secret location near the Lebanon-Syria border four months after her release from prison, Expressen said.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">She said she now wants to move West and claims she shouldn&#8217;t be blamed for the crimes perpetrated by her ex-husband. &#8216;I could have lived like a princess. I don&#8217;t want money. I want to live in freedom,&#8217; Al-Dulaimi said.</span></div>
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Living with terror: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s ex-wife tells of ‘shallow’ marriage to a man who spoke only to give orders. What’s it like being married to the world’s most-wanted terrorist?
