US Hostage Kayla Mueller Killed by ISIS, Say Ex-Slaves

By Published on September 10, 2015

 

The American hostage Kayla Mueller was murdered by so-called Islamic State after being raped repeatedly by its leader.

That is the testimony of two Yazidi girls and a woman who escaped from IS captivity. They spoke to the BBC’s Paul Wood in northern Iraq.

Dalal was 15 when she was captured by the “Islamic State” (IS) and taken to a slave market.

In a white villa next to a lake in Raqqa, about 60 Yazidi girls and women were made to stand in line. Rigid with fear, they waited as fighters walked up and down to choose among them. Some took one girl, some took half a dozen.

A man wearing a white dishdasha arrived. He had a long black beard, streaked with grey. A black headscarf hung down, hiding his face.

He had bodyguards and other fighters were deferential, stepping back. He stared at the girls.

“Take this one. And that one,” he told one of the armed men at his side… eventually he had nine girls. “You will all convert to Islam,” he said. “And you will come with me.”

Dalal told her story in a whisper, staring into the middle distance.

The guards pushed and prodded the girls – they were all under 18 – and took them to the man’s house.

He was called “Abu Khaled”. Much later, Dalal would discover the name by which most of the world knows the man: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the IS leader.

Dala’s life as an IS “slave” – the term is openly used by the militant group – would bring her into contact with the American hostage Kayla Mueller, a young and idealistic aid worker kidnapped in Syria in August 2013.

Read the article “US Hostage Kayla Mueller Killed by ISIS, Say Ex-Slaves” on bbc.com.

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