The BBC interview, published Thursday, focuses on accounts by Dalal and Susan, two young Yazidi girls who escaped from Islamic State captivity and have since returned to northern Iraq. The girls say they met Mueller when all three shared a prison cell. Their recollections reveal previously unknown details about Mueller’s time as an ISIS prisoner.
U.S. officials told Mueller’s parents in June that the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, raped Mueller “repeatedly” while she was in captivity. Dalal and Susan confirmed this to the BBC.
The two girls said Mueller told them that after she was kidnapped, her fingernails were pulled out in an effort to torture her into confessing that she was a spy.
Mueller used notebooks to write of her travels in India and France, and kept busy by reading books. She had learned some Arabic from Islamic State members, according to Susan.
The girls also recounted how caring Mueller was. “When IS brought food for us, Kayla ate very little,” Susan said. “She didn’t want us to be hungry.”
Mueller shared stories about her life in the U.S., while the other two told her of their own lives back home.
When Baghdadi would call for Mueller to pay him a visit, Dalal said she would come back “shaken,” according to the BBC. He allegedly told Mueller that he would behead her unless she married him. Baghdadi subsequently married her and raped her, Dalal explained, though he never referred to her as his slave, the way he did with a Yazidi girl he also raped.
Baghdadi paid extra attention to Kayla, the girls said, and gave her a Quran and a wristwatch as gifts. He dressed her in all black and banned other men in the house from looking at her.
But other men took interest in Kayla, too, Amshe said. Mutazz made Mueller his sex slave as well, viewing her as a trophy because of her American nationality.
That’s also the reason Islamic State leadership ultimately killed Mueller: Amshe says Mutazz told her it was an effort to seek revenge on the West.
From the previous Most Wanted about all the sex slave raping:
According to this account Kayla was only a sex slave.
Not a wife.
Thus a man who owns her may share her with other men if he wishes to.
But, if he wishes to keep her for himself, he who bought her has that right.
Did alBaghdadi BUY her?
Or was she his portion from among all of the spoils of war due the commander?
(Mohammad got first pick before his soldiers could buy the leftovers and he set the precedent.)
If Kayla was taken by some other man she would, under Sharia, be guilty of a sex crime worthy of death.
Of course, were she to fight and harm a would-be rapist, she would be guilty of assault and perhaps put to death for that!
So, she was in a lose-lose.
So, she might be killed by alBaghdadi.
@Nanny G: So – we should be bringing more of these ‘people’ to the US — ASAP!! — No?