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In her first interview since her release from a Lebanese prison last year, Saja al-Dulaimi recalled to CNN Swedish affiliate Expressen TV what it was like to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's wife and what she fears for the daughter she bore with him.
"He was great. He was the children's ideal father. The way he was with children, he was a teacher -- you know how teachers are. He knew how to deal with children.
Dulaimi said she left Baghdadi after she became pregnant. She wouldn't say exactly why, but explained, "I wasn't happy."
Now the young mother dreams of a life with her daughter in Europe. She wants the girl to go to school. It will be a better and safer life, she believes.
"I want to live in a European country, not an Arab country," she said. "I want my children to live and get an education."
Europeans should accept her, regardless of her past relationship with Baghdadi, she said.
"Even if her mother was married to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a terrorist, what is the child guilty of there?"
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/31/europe/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-isis-ex-wife-interview/
"He was great. He was the children's ideal father. The way he was with children, he was a teacher -- you know how teachers are. He knew how to deal with children.
Dulaimi said she left Baghdadi after she became pregnant. She wouldn't say exactly why, but explained, "I wasn't happy."
Now the young mother dreams of a life with her daughter in Europe. She wants the girl to go to school. It will be a better and safer life, she believes.
"I want to live in a European country, not an Arab country," she said. "I want my children to live and get an education."
Europeans should accept her, regardless of her past relationship with Baghdadi, she said.
"Even if her mother was married to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a terrorist, what is the child guilty of there?"
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/31/europe/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-isis-ex-wife-interview/