http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33941913

Quote:An American aid worker who was killed in February while held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, was sexually abused by the group's top leader, US officials tell ABC news.
Kayla Mueller, 26, was repeatedly raped by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said.
Counterterrorism officials made her family aware of the abuse in June.
Mueller was abducted while working in Aleppo, Syria, in 2013. IS said she was killed in a Jordanian air strike, but the US blames IS for her death.
"We were told Kayla was tortured, that she was the property of Baghdadi. We were told that in June by the government," her parents, Carl and Marsha, told ABC News.
Baghdadi personally took the humanitarian aid worker to the home of another senior IS member - Abu Sayyaf - who was in charge of IS oil and gas until his death in a US special forces operation in May, ABC news, citing US officials, reports.

Quote:Officials said they had obtained information about the abuse from at least two teenage Yazidi girls who were held hostage as sex slaves and found inside the Sayyaf compound at the time of the US attack.

Mueller was reportedly held for some time by Sayyaf and his wife, Umm Sayyaf, who was also captured by US special forces in May.
At the time, the Pentagon said Umm Sayyaf was suspected of being an IS member and of being complicit in the enslavement of a young Yazidi woman who was rescued in the raid.
Hundreds of young women and girls - many of them Yazidis captured in northern Iraq - are believed to be held as sex slaves by IS militants in areas under their control.
The Yazidi girls provided intelligence used by the US to interrogate Sayyaf's wife, who "spilled everything" about several IS leaders and their whereabouts, a counterterrorism official told ABC.
Umm Sayyaf was handed over to the Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq last week to face trial.

(08-14-2015 04:11 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33941913

Quote:An American aid worker who was killed in February while held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, was sexually abused by the group's top leader, US officials tell ABC news.
Kayla Mueller, 26, was repeatedly raped by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said.
Counterterrorism officials made her family aware of the abuse in June.
Mueller was abducted while working in Aleppo, Syria, in 2013. IS said she was killed in a Jordanian air strike, but the US blames IS for her death.
"We were told Kayla was tortured, that she was the property of Baghdadi. We were told that in June by the government," her parents, Carl and Marsha, told ABC News.
Baghdadi personally took the humanitarian aid worker to the home of another senior IS member - Abu Sayyaf - who was in charge of IS oil and gas until his death in a US special forces operation in May, ABC news, citing US officials, reports.

Quote:Officials said they had obtained information about the abuse from at least two teenage Yazidi girls who were held hostage as sex slaves and found inside the Sayyaf compound at the time of the US attack.

Mueller was reportedly held for some time by Sayyaf and his wife, Umm Sayyaf, who was also captured by US special forces in May.
At the time, the Pentagon said Umm Sayyaf was suspected of being an IS member and of being complicit in the enslavement of a young Yazidi woman who was rescued in the raid.
Hundreds of young women and girls - many of them Yazidis captured in northern Iraq - are believed to be held as sex slaves by IS militants in areas under their control.
The Yazidi girls provided intelligence used by the US to interrogate Sayyaf's wife, who "spilled everything" about several IS leaders and their whereabouts, a counterterrorism official told ABC.
Umm Sayyaf was handed over to the Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq last week to face trial.

Well we should all feel so much better that we traded 5 high level captives in Gitmo for Bergdahl now.
Mueller's parents said after Bergdahl was freed all discussion of acquiring Kayla's freedom ceased.

Kayla was imminently more deserving of a prisoner trade to save her life than Bergdahl the deserter.

JV Team.

(08-14-2015 05:18 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  Well we should all feel so much better that we traded 5 high level captives in Gitmo for Bergdahl now.
Mueller's parents said after Bergdahl was freed all discussion of acquiring Kayla's freedom ceased.

Think about how the 4 hostages in Iran are doing now.

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This was a pretty offensive post, so I decided to delete.

(08-14-2015 06:18 PM)Smaug Wrote:  JV Team.

I was thinking the same thing.

Death is the great equalizer. For him, and for many like him, the void awaits. No promised afterlife, no promised remembrance. Cold, dark, and forgotten. Only a matter of time now.

(08-14-2015 11:22 PM)CameramanJ Wrote:  Death is the great equalizer. For him, and for many like him, the void awaits. No promised afterlife, no promised remembrance. Cold, dark, and forgotten. Only a matter of time now.

On this we can agree.

I can only hope, in the most emotional and barbaric of expression, that this devil winds up dead with a pork rind shoved up his arse. To do this to a relief worker is unforgivable.

It was done in the name of god. Nothing to see here.