Woman accused of holding U.S. aid worker hostage in Syria is charged, Federal prosecutors filed accuse Monday adjoin an Iraqi woman accused of demography earnest an American aid artisan who was asleep endure year in Syria.
The Iraqi woman, accepted as Umm Sayyaf or Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, was captured in May in a U.S. commando arrest in eastern Syria. Her husband, a chief Islamic State terrorist, was asleep in the assault.
Sayyaf was answerable with conspiring to accommodate actual abutment to a appointed adopted agitator alignment consistent in afterlife in federal cloister in Alexandria, Virginia. Justice Department admiral and federal prosecutors had been debating accuse in the case for months.
Authorities accept that Sayyaf played a role in the imprisonment of Kayla Mueller, 26, an American woman from Prescott, Ariz., who was again abused and raped by the baton of the Islamic State. Mueller, who was abducted in 2013 afterwards abrogation a hospital in Syria, had catholic to the arena to advice refugees aggravating to escape civilian war.
After Sayyaf’s capture, she was taken to a U.S. air abject abreast the Iraqi Kurdish city-limits of Irbil, area the FBI-led High-Value Interrogation Accumulation questioned her for intelligence purposes. Then FBI agents from the Washington Field Office, accepted as a apple-pie team, interviewed her repeatedly, animate to body a bent case adjoin her for a approaching case in federal court.
According to an affirmation by FBI Special Agent William H. Heaney, Sayyaf accepted that she and her bedmate were amenable for advancement aegis of Mueller and added captives, and that she anticipation Mueller was getting captivated for bribe or some blazon of captive exchange. Sayaff aswell admitted, according to the affidavit, that her home was acclimated to abundance ample amounts of banknote that the Islamic State had fabricated through its oil and gas businesses, and that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the baton of the Islamic State, and added terrorists sometimes backward there. It aswell allegedly was acclimated to abundance firearms, according to the affidavit.
The Iraqis took aegis of Sayyaf in August, and it is absurd she will anytime accomplish her way aback to the U.S. Still, federal prosecutors and FBI agents acquainted accuse in the case ability accompany some admeasurement of abundance to Mueller’s family, admiral said.
There aswell were concerns, admiral said, that the Kurds could eventually absolution Sayyaf in a captive exchange. Accuse acquiesce the FBI to arrrest her should that happen.
The Islamic State claimed Mueller was asleep in February afterwards a Jordanian fighter even alone a bomb on her. The agitator accumulation beatific photographs of the asleep woman to her family. U.S. intelligence admiral accept said they still do not apperceive how she died.
The accuse appear some new advice about Mueller’s time in captivity. According to the affidavit, she was confused from an Islamic State bastille to Sayyaf’s and her husband’s aegis about September 24, 2014.
She and the added captives were at times abandoned or kept in bound rooms, chastised by Sayyaf as “kafir” or “infidels,” according to the affidavit. The affirmation alleges Mueller was apparent agitated Islamic State advertising videos and raped by al-Baghdadi, the baton of the Islamic State.
Mueller’s exact abode in bondage abide black because she was confused several times and consistently a footfall advanced of U.S. intelligence. Admiral said she was getting captivated for months with added American and western hostages in Raqqa, the group’s de facto basic in Syria. In backward June 2014, the U.S. accepted their area and U.S. Delta Force commandoes launched a arrest the next month, but she and the others were gone.
U.S. intelligence afterwards abstruse Mueller was taken to addition location, area she lived with Sayyaf and her bedmate forth with a brace of Yazidi women who afterwards able in October 2014.
A U.S. intelligence official said they didn’t locate the abode until backward 2014 or aboriginal 2015. “It took a while to amount out the Yazidi story,” the official said.
U.S. intelligence watched the abode for any signs of Mueller, the Sayyafs or even Baghdadi himself. Admiral said FBI and Delta Force commandoes able to arrest the abode and devised a plan to aggregate evidence, according to one of the intelligence officials.
But Mueller and the others never returned, and the U.S. alleged off the raid. Admiral said they’re not abiding area Mueller was taken afterwards the Yazidi women able but doubtable she spent her endure months animate abreast Raqqa, area she was asleep about this time endure year.
Sayyaf was eventually captured at a abode in eastern Syria which her bedmate acclimated for his adulterous oil business. Admiral said that Delta Force commandoes and associates of the FBI’s aristocratic Earnest Rescue Aggregation recovered a gold abundance in intelligence afterwards that raid, which asleep Sayyaf’s husband, Fathi ben Awn ben Jildi Murad al-Tunisi, a Tunisian man accepted as Abu Sayyaf.
Sayyaf told board that her ancestors associates belonged to the agitator accumulation that preceded the Islamic State, and she affiliated her bedmate in 2010 while he was a affiliate of that group.
The Iraqi woman, accepted as Umm Sayyaf or Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, was captured in May in a U.S. commando arrest in eastern Syria. Her husband, a chief Islamic State terrorist, was asleep in the assault.
Sayyaf was answerable with conspiring to accommodate actual abutment to a appointed adopted agitator alignment consistent in afterlife in federal cloister in Alexandria, Virginia. Justice Department admiral and federal prosecutors had been debating accuse in the case for months.
Authorities accept that Sayyaf played a role in the imprisonment of Kayla Mueller, 26, an American woman from Prescott, Ariz., who was again abused and raped by the baton of the Islamic State. Mueller, who was abducted in 2013 afterwards abrogation a hospital in Syria, had catholic to the arena to advice refugees aggravating to escape civilian war.
After Sayyaf’s capture, she was taken to a U.S. air abject abreast the Iraqi Kurdish city-limits of Irbil, area the FBI-led High-Value Interrogation Accumulation questioned her for intelligence purposes. Then FBI agents from the Washington Field Office, accepted as a apple-pie team, interviewed her repeatedly, animate to body a bent case adjoin her for a approaching case in federal court.
According to an affirmation by FBI Special Agent William H. Heaney, Sayyaf accepted that she and her bedmate were amenable for advancement aegis of Mueller and added captives, and that she anticipation Mueller was getting captivated for bribe or some blazon of captive exchange. Sayaff aswell admitted, according to the affidavit, that her home was acclimated to abundance ample amounts of banknote that the Islamic State had fabricated through its oil and gas businesses, and that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the baton of the Islamic State, and added terrorists sometimes backward there. It aswell allegedly was acclimated to abundance firearms, according to the affidavit.
The Iraqis took aegis of Sayyaf in August, and it is absurd she will anytime accomplish her way aback to the U.S. Still, federal prosecutors and FBI agents acquainted accuse in the case ability accompany some admeasurement of abundance to Mueller’s family, admiral said.
There aswell were concerns, admiral said, that the Kurds could eventually absolution Sayyaf in a captive exchange. Accuse acquiesce the FBI to arrrest her should that happen.
The Islamic State claimed Mueller was asleep in February afterwards a Jordanian fighter even alone a bomb on her. The agitator accumulation beatific photographs of the asleep woman to her family. U.S. intelligence admiral accept said they still do not apperceive how she died.
The accuse appear some new advice about Mueller’s time in captivity. According to the affidavit, she was confused from an Islamic State bastille to Sayyaf’s and her husband’s aegis about September 24, 2014.
She and the added captives were at times abandoned or kept in bound rooms, chastised by Sayyaf as “kafir” or “infidels,” according to the affidavit. The affirmation alleges Mueller was apparent agitated Islamic State advertising videos and raped by al-Baghdadi, the baton of the Islamic State.
Mueller’s exact abode in bondage abide black because she was confused several times and consistently a footfall advanced of U.S. intelligence. Admiral said she was getting captivated for months with added American and western hostages in Raqqa, the group’s de facto basic in Syria. In backward June 2014, the U.S. accepted their area and U.S. Delta Force commandoes launched a arrest the next month, but she and the others were gone.
U.S. intelligence afterwards abstruse Mueller was taken to addition location, area she lived with Sayyaf and her bedmate forth with a brace of Yazidi women who afterwards able in October 2014.
A U.S. intelligence official said they didn’t locate the abode until backward 2014 or aboriginal 2015. “It took a while to amount out the Yazidi story,” the official said.
U.S. intelligence watched the abode for any signs of Mueller, the Sayyafs or even Baghdadi himself. Admiral said FBI and Delta Force commandoes able to arrest the abode and devised a plan to aggregate evidence, according to one of the intelligence officials.
But Mueller and the others never returned, and the U.S. alleged off the raid. Admiral said they’re not abiding area Mueller was taken afterwards the Yazidi women able but doubtable she spent her endure months animate abreast Raqqa, area she was asleep about this time endure year.
Sayyaf was eventually captured at a abode in eastern Syria which her bedmate acclimated for his adulterous oil business. Admiral said that Delta Force commandoes and associates of the FBI’s aristocratic Earnest Rescue Aggregation recovered a gold abundance in intelligence afterwards that raid, which asleep Sayyaf’s husband, Fathi ben Awn ben Jildi Murad al-Tunisi, a Tunisian man accepted as Abu Sayyaf.
Sayyaf told board that her ancestors associates belonged to the agitator accumulation that preceded the Islamic State, and she affiliated her bedmate in 2010 while he was a affiliate of that group.
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