Islamic State Leader's Ex-Wife Speaks Out

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS's reclusive leader, makes his first public appearance and delivers his first sermon as the group's "caliph" at a mosque in Mosul, Iraq, July 5, 2014. REUTERS/SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE VIA REUTERS TV

Washington Post: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the murderous Islamic State leader, was once just a ‘normal family man’, claims ex-wife

When Saja al-Dulaimi talks about her ex-husband, to whom she was married briefly in 2008, it’s almost as if she’s speaking of three different men.

There was the man named Hisham Mohammad, just “a normal person,” a “university lecturer” specializing in Sharia law. A “normal family man” who “loved the children,” who loved him back. “He was their idol. He was an excellent person in that respect,” she told Kassem Hamadé, a correspondent for Sweden’s Expressen in an unusual interview from an undisclosed location published Thursday.

Then there was Hisham Mohammad, the “mysterious” man, who rarely talked about his past, and would disappear for days at a time, claiming that he was visiting his brother.

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