ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wife Saja al-Duleimi detained in December 2014 was secretly delivering large sums of money to militants in Syria. She managed to deliver tens of thousands of dollars in 2014, The Washington Post reports.The investigation reveals that Islamists use their families to transport money all over the Middle East. Lebanese Defense Minister said that al-Duleimi received an online transfer of $200,000 from charity organizations and brought the money to extremists on the Lebanese-Syrian border. Most of the sum was donated by citizens of the Persian Gulf, the investigation says.Lebanese analyst Salem Zahran assumes that groups like Al Qaeda often use women to smuggle valuables becomes they rarely undergo scrupulous checking.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wife Saja al-Duleimi detained in December 2014 was secretly delivering large sums of money to militants in Syria. She managed to deliver tens of thousands of dollars in 2014, The Washington Post reports.
The investigation reveals that Islamists use their families to transport money all over the Middle East. Lebanese Defense Minister said that al-Duleimi received an online transfer of $200,000 from charity organizations and brought the money to extremists on the Lebanese-Syrian border. Most of the sum was donated by citizens of the Persian Gulf, the investigation says.
Lebanese analyst Salem Zahran assumes that groups like Al Qaeda often use women to smuggle valuables becomes they rarely undergo scrupulous checking.
