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| Abu Sayyaf's Yezidi 'slave girl' to be released |
| 2015-06-02 |
| [RUDAW.NET] The Kurdish Yezidi woman rescued by US commandos during a raid in Syria on the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... 's top financier is now set to be released from questioning at the US Consulate in Erbil. In an exclusive Rudaw phone interview, the young woman said she expects to rejoin her family soon. "I am safe and very good. I feel free and I am so happy about it. This is actually the only thing I can tell you for now," she said on condition of anonymity while still inside a US intelligence unit in the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. In the May 16 raid, launched against an eastern Syria site in the Deir ez-Zour area, US Special Forces killed Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... , a man described as the Islamic State's head of oil operations. Along with the main target, US forces captured his wife, known as Umm Sayyaf, and rescued the Kurdish Yezidi woman who had been enslaved. A US defense official knowledgeable about details of the raid said a team of Delta Force commandos slipped across the border from Iraq under cover of darkness on May 16 aboard Black Hawk helicopters and V-22 Osprey aircraft. "The girl is in good health and she will be sent back to her family soon," a US consular source told Rudaw. After the fall of Shingal to ISIS jihadists last year, the young woman was captured along with thousands of other Yezidi women and kiddies. She was sent to Tal Afar, an ethnically Turkmen city some 63 kilometers west of the ISIS stronghold of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . Later, she was forced in a bus with other Yezidi women and moved into neighboring Syria, where they were divided up and taken by ISIS officials. She ended up enslaved in Abu Sayyaf's house. A source knowledgeable with the case said she is from Ger Ozair, and most of her relatives remain in ISIS custody. The source also said US officials told the family to expect her back in one of the Duhok refugee camps on Monday. The Kurdish Yezidi girl has been under questioning by US intelligence agents since her rescue. Two women close to her are staying with her inside the consulate. Hadi Dubani, head of Yezidi affairs in Duhok, confirmed to Rudaw: "They are expecting to receive the girl soon in a formal reunification ceremony." "The Kurdistan Regional Government and Yezidi community praise the US efforts for this Yezidi girl," Dubani said. Dubani said the woman's two-week stay in the custody of the US was no reason for alarm. "There was no concern of her health situation. She was just under investigation and will come back to her family on Monday," he added. ISIS launched a massive assault on the town of Shingal on August 3. Thousands of Kurdish Yezidi families fled to Mount Shingal and hundreds of men were massacred inside the town. During the attack, some 5,000 Yezidi Kurds were captured. Nine-hundred Yezidis have managed to escape with the remainder still missing. Reports claim the Islamic State jihadists moved at least 1,000 Kurdish Yezidi women and kiddies to Syria. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Why any of this was made public is a mystery to me.... well, not really I suppose. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-06-02 14:45 |
| #2 I figure it'll be in the NYT's Sunday edition. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-06-02 14:42 |
| #1 Isn't it about time for the State Department to put her name and address in all the papers? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2015-06-02 07:23 |