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tobermory
15 Aug 15 02:03
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grim fate this lady had Sad



Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi repeatedly raped American hostage Kayla Mueller, according to accounts provided to US intelligence officials.

Ms Mueller, whose death was confirmed in February, is said to have been kept for a while by Islamic State financier Abu Sayyaf and his wife, Umm Sayyaf.

According to a Yazidi teenager who was held with 26-year-old Ms Mueller, al Baghdadi took the American as his "wife", repeatedly forcing her to have sex when he visited.

Mueller family spokeswoman Emily Lenzner told the Associated Press news agency the 14-year-old Yazidi girl, who later escaped, spoke to US officials.

They checked out her story with other intelligence before passing it on in June to Kayla Mueller's parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, Ms Lenzner added.

An unnamed US official confirmed the account, which was first reported by London's Independent.

According to the newspaper, Ms Mueller was kept in a room with four Yazidi teenagers, whom she tried to protect from abuse by Umm Sayyaf and militants.

The girls are said to have regarded Ms Mueller as a "mother figure".

The American aid worker would leave the room when al Baghdadi visited and weep afterwards as she told the Yazidi girls about the sexual abuse she had suffered, reports the newspaper.

Abu Sayyaf, a Tunisian, was killed in a US special forces raid on his Syrian compound in June, which American officials said reaped vital intelligence about the Islamic State group.

Umm Sayyaf, who was detained during the raid, is said to have co-operated with US interrogators and has been turned over to the Iraqi Kurds for trial.

Ms Mueller, from Prescott, Arizona, was taken prisoner in Aleppo, Syria, in August 2013.

The Islamic State group said she died when Jordanian warplanes struck the building where she was being held, though they offered little proof for the claim.

The Mueller family released a heart-wrenching letter she wrote to them from captivity in which she said she had been "treated w/ the utmost respect + kindness".

"Do not fear for me," she said in the letter, widely thought to have been written under duress.
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Report lfc1971 August 15, 2015 9:02 AM BST
The madness of allowing this barbaric religion into Europe.
Report mobo August 15, 2015 11:29 AM BST
and why not
you are an islamaphobe if you don't

plenty around will say that of you and me

and don't mention muslim on tv!!!  argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report DStyle August 15, 2015 11:58 AM BST
US intelligence about the Caliph allegedly extracted from teenage captives painting him as a barbaric rapist?
Report mobo August 15, 2015 1:52 PM BST
why can't a man take a woman as a wife in this modern age?????Angry
Report alun2005 August 15, 2015 2:32 PM BST
I expect The Guardian will want to get to the very bottom of this issue.
Report mobo August 15, 2015 3:30 PM BST
You know they will plunge the very depths of anything to do with Islam and muslims
Report DAFFODIL1 August 15, 2015 3:58 PM BST
Would not believe one word that came from American intelligence
Report Wesdag August 15, 2015 4:08 PM BST
Sadly, rape during war is nothing new.
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