The archetypal woman of the Islamic State group's person Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's has shared details of their beingness successful a uncommon interrogation from situation with the BBC, portion she is investigated for terror-related crimes, expressing her daze astatine the 'inhumane' atrocities committed by the jihadist group.
Widow Umm Hudaifa was joined to the ISIS person portion helium oversaw ISIS's vicious regularisation implicit ample parts of Syria and Iraq, which committed a genocide against the Yazidi radical and took thousands of women arsenic slaves, portion besides sidesplitting hostages and civilians.
In a caller interrogation with the BBC, Hudaifa described ISIS atrocities arsenic a 'huge shock' and 'inhumane', adding that they 'crossed a enactment of humanity'.
She added that she 'felt ashamed' of the unit against the Yazidis.
Hudaifa is nether probe for her suspected relation successful ISIS and the crimes committed by the panic organisation and is presently being held successful a Baghdad prison.
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She has denied her engagement successful the intersexual enslavement of women and girls and claims she was a unfortunate herself and tried to flight from her husband, who she joined successful 1999.
Her husband, the Iraq-born ISIS person Al-Baghdadi became known connected the satellite signifier aft ISIS ruled done bluish Iraq and northeastern Syria implicit a decennary ago, earlier helium detonated a termination vest as US Army Special Ops forces closed successful connected his hideout successful northwestern Syria connected October 27, 2019.
In 2014, helium made a uncommon quality successful which helium declared himself the caliph, the ruler of the Muslim community.
Hudaifa claims that she was surviving successful Raqqa, Syria, erstwhile her hubby declared himself leader.
She explained however she would often walk clip isolated from her husband, who was successful hiding arsenic a wanted person of the extremist jihadist group. Just days before, her sons were collected to beryllium taught however to aquatics successful the Euphrates.
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After turning the TV connected 1 day, she said she got a 'huge surprise' aft seeing her hubby addressing the Great Mosque of al-Nuri successful the Iraqi metropolis Mosul, successful which helium declared himself the arsenic the caput of the Islamic caliphate.
She says she was shocked to observe her sons were successful Mosul with her husband. 'He told maine they were going connected a travel to thatch the boys however to swim,' she told the BBC.
Hudaifa asserted that erstwhile she archetypal joined her husband, helium was 'conservative but unfastened minded' and claimed helium was not an extremist.
However she said aft al-Baghdadi was held successful Camp Bucca successful 2004 pursuing the US-led penetration of Iraq successful 2004, helium changed, claiming that helium suffered from intelligence issues.
Al-Baghdadi was reportedly arrested aft founding a militant Sunni radical to combat American and allied Western concern forces.
He spent his year-long detention with many different men who would aboriginal go elder figures successful ISIS and different jihadist groups.
Although helium did not archer her directly, Hudaifa believes her hubby was subjected to 'sexual torture'.
Hudaifa added that upon his return, she began to fishy her hubby belonged to a militant group, arsenic they often moved location and had fake identities.
She past asked for a divorce, but stayed with him arsenic she could not hold to his information that she springiness up their children.
'We moved to the Idlib countryside successful Syria successful January 2012, and determination it became perfectly wide to maine that helium was the emir [leader],' she said.
The barbarity of the militant groups that formed ISIS was already prominent, but successful 2014, the bloodshed became much widespread.
This included ISIS's genocide against Iraq's Yazidi minority, arsenic good arsenic the murder, torture, kidnapping and enslavement of civilians.
'To spill humor unjustly is simply a horrendous happening and successful that respect they crossed the enactment of humanity', Hudaifa told the BBC.
She besides claimed she challenged her hubby astir his engagement successful the killings of thousands, telling him that him that 'according to Islamic instrumentality determination are different things that could person been done, similar guiding them towards repentance'.
But successful 2014, 9 Yazidi girls, ranging from the ages of 9 to 30 were brought to Hudaifa's house, which she claimed lone stayed determination for a fewer days.
A pistillate named Soad, who was enslaved, raped and sold 7 times, and her begetter Hamid, person filed a civilian suit against Hudaifa for her engagement successful the kidnapping and enslavement of Yazidi girls.
'She was liable for everything. She made the selections - this 1 to service her, that 1 to service her husband... and my sister was 1 of those girls.'
'She is the woman of the transgression Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and she is simply a transgression conscionable similar him', Soad told the BBC.
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