Well, this is interesting. Multiple news outlets are reporting that an alleged wife and son of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have been detained after crossing over the border from Syria into Lebanon:
Lebanon detains a wife and son of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, reports say. http://t.co/15xUDUcNYS
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 2, 2014
Lebanon detains wife and either daughter or son of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi http://t.co/qMR4wOpN6c
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) December 2, 2014
https://twitter.com/BlogsofWar/status/539727781605543936
Reuters reports, however, that Baghdadi has other wives, so the significance of this defection is yet to be determined:
The officials declined to give the name or nationality of the woman whom they described as one of his wives. The Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported the army had detained her in co-ordination with “foreign intelligence apparatus”.
It said she had been travelling with a fake passport accompanied by one of her sons. Isil has seized wide areas of Iraq and Syria, Lebanon’s neighbour to the east, declaring a “caliphate” over the territory it controls.
Caliphate living isn’t for everyone.
Related:
Twitchy coverage of ISIS.
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