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Reuter, Christoph (November 2019). "The Hunt for Islamic State leader Baghdadi - DER SPIEGEL". Der Spiegel. Archived from the original on November 7, 2019 . Retrieved November 6, 2019. According to several sources, Sujidah (sometimes referred to as "Saja" [228]) al-Dulaimi was the wife of al-Baghdadi. [229] It was reported the couple had allegedly met and fallen in love online. [229] Sujidah al-Dulaimi was arrested in Syria in late 2013 or early 2014, and was released from a Syrian jail in March 2014 as part of a prisoner swap involving 150 women, in exchange for 13 nuns taken captive by al-Qaeda-linked militants. Also released in March were her two sons and her younger brother. [230] The Iraqi Interior Ministry has said, "There is no wife named Saja al-Dulaimi." [220] Baghdadi's compound was located near GPS coordinates 36.1660, 36.6274, in Syria's Idlib Governorate. Although Idlib is dominated by the Islamic State's rival jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which had connections to al-Qaeda, [17] the Institute for the Study of War warned that Idlib is nevertheless the focus of an ISIL strategy to have it serve as an incubator for the next iteration of ISIL and al-Qaeda recruits. [18] Iran downplays significance of Baghdadi's death". Al Monitor. October 28, 2019. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019 . Retrieved October 28, 2019.July 2015: The New York Times wrote that rumors that al-Baghdadi had been killed or injured earlier in the year had been "dispelled". [149] From Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian ideologue killed in an Egyptian jail in 1966, he accepted millenarian ideas that the world was in a state of ignorance, that all leaders of Muslim countries deserved denunciation as apostates, and that only armed struggle and sharia (religious law) could restore past Islamic glories. Zawahiri called democracy “a new religion that deifies humans and gives them the authority to formulate their own laws … while Islam gives the right to legislate exclusively to Allah”. More than anything, he wrote, Egypt’s rapid defeat in the June 1967 war persuaded him that existing Arab structures were bankrupt. Japan – Japan said the death of al-Baghdadi was a crucial turning point towards serenity and stability in the Middle East. However, the country also cautioned that the war against terrorism had not ended. [75]

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