<p> An ex-wife of Islamic State group (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, with whom he had a daughter, wants to live in Europe "in freedom", she told Swedish daily Expressen in an interview published today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"I want to live in a European country, not an Arab country," Saja al-Dulaimi said in the interview filmed in Lebanon.<br /><br />Dulaimi was freed several months ago from a Lebanese prison, where she had been held since 2014 with her children on suspicion of links to extremist organisations.<br />"I'm branded a terrorist but I'm far from all that," lamented Dulaimi.<br /><br />"I want to live in freedom," the 28-year-old said, while praising Islamic Sharia law which she said provided "freedom and rights for women".<br /><br />Her seven-year-old daughter, Hagar, said she wanted to go to Europe to "study." A DNA test conducted by Lebanese authorities confirmed she was Baghdadi's child.<br /><br />Born into a well-heeled Iraqi family, Dulaimi said she had been married to an Iraqi member of Saddam Hussein's personal guard. They had twins together.<br /><br />Widowed, she married again in 2008, on the advice of her father, to Bagdhadi.<br />Dulaimi described Baghdadi, who also had children from an earlier marriage, as "a normal family man" and university professor adored by his offspring.<br /><br />Baghdadi was at the time fighting in the ranks of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, from which the Islamic State group was born. In 2010, he took over the reins of IS.<br />Washington has put a $10-million bounty on his head.<br /><br />Dulaimi said she left him after just three months of marriage, when she was pregnant with their daughter.<br /><br />"How he could become emir (caliph) of the most dangerous terrorist organisation in the world is a mystery," she said.<br /><br />"The last conversation we had was in 2009. He asked me if I wanted to come back. But I'd made my decision," she said.<br /><br />"Where is my guilt? I was married to him in 2008. We're divorced now," she said.<br />She has since remarried, to a Palestinian man with whom she also has a child.</p>
<p> An ex-wife of Islamic State group (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, with whom he had a daughter, wants to live in Europe "in freedom", she told Swedish daily Expressen in an interview published today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"I want to live in a European country, not an Arab country," Saja al-Dulaimi said in the interview filmed in Lebanon.<br /><br />Dulaimi was freed several months ago from a Lebanese prison, where she had been held since 2014 with her children on suspicion of links to extremist organisations.<br />"I'm branded a terrorist but I'm far from all that," lamented Dulaimi.<br /><br />"I want to live in freedom," the 28-year-old said, while praising Islamic Sharia law which she said provided "freedom and rights for women".<br /><br />Her seven-year-old daughter, Hagar, said she wanted to go to Europe to "study." A DNA test conducted by Lebanese authorities confirmed she was Baghdadi's child.<br /><br />Born into a well-heeled Iraqi family, Dulaimi said she had been married to an Iraqi member of Saddam Hussein's personal guard. They had twins together.<br /><br />Widowed, she married again in 2008, on the advice of her father, to Bagdhadi.<br />Dulaimi described Baghdadi, who also had children from an earlier marriage, as "a normal family man" and university professor adored by his offspring.<br /><br />Baghdadi was at the time fighting in the ranks of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, from which the Islamic State group was born. In 2010, he took over the reins of IS.<br />Washington has put a $10-million bounty on his head.<br /><br />Dulaimi said she left him after just three months of marriage, when she was pregnant with their daughter.<br /><br />"How he could become emir (caliph) of the most dangerous terrorist organisation in the world is a mystery," she said.<br /><br />"The last conversation we had was in 2009. He asked me if I wanted to come back. But I'd made my decision," she said.<br /><br />"Where is my guilt? I was married to him in 2008. We're divorced now," she said.<br />She has since remarried, to a Palestinian man with whom she also has a child.</p>