Baghdad: Iraq’s Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that a woman detained by Lebanese authorities was not the wife of Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, but the sister of a man convicted of bombings in southern Iraq.
“The one detained by Lebanese authorities was Saja Abdul Hamid Al Dulaimi, sister of Omar Abdul Hamid Al Dulaimi who is detained by authorities and sentenced to death for his participation in... explosions,” said ministry spokesman Brigadier General Sa’ad Maan said.
“The wives of the terrorist Al Baghdadi are Asma Fawzia Mohammad Al Dulaimi and Esraa Rajab Mahel Al Qaisi, and there is no wife in the name of Saja Al Dulaimi,” he said.
Maan said Saja Al Dulaimi had fled to Syria where she was detained by authorities. She was part of a group of female detainees freed in exchange for the release of a group of nuns captured by Islamist rebels in Syria, he said.
Security officials in Lebanon said on Tuesday the Lebanese army had detained a wife and daughter of Al Baghdadi’s as they crossed from Syria late last month.
They were detained in northern Lebanon after the woman was found with a fake passport, officials said. Investigators were questioning her at the Lebanese Defence Ministry.
