{"id":66192,"date":"2016-02-08T18:10:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T23:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=66192"},"modified":"2016-02-08T18:14:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T23:14:02","slug":"wife-of-dead-isis-leader-charged-in-death-of-kayla-jean-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wife-of-dead-isis-leader-charged-in-death-of-kayla-jean-mueller\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife of Dead ISIS Leader Charged in Death of Kayla Mueller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, aka Umm Sayyaf, 25, an Iraqi citizen and wife of Abu Sayyaf, a senior leader within the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) until his death last year, was charged by criminal complaint today for her role in a conspiracy that resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/transcript-final-letter-kayla-mueller-sent-to-her-parents-while-in-captivity\/\">the death of American citizen Kayla Jean Mueller in February 2015.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the affidavit,\u00a0in August 2013, on their second full day in northern Syria, Mueller and Individual 1 were kidnapped at gunpoint by masked ISIL soldiers.\u00a0 Mueller remained an ISIL hostage until her death on or about Feb. 7, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0August 2014, Individual 2 and Individual 3, two young Kurdish women of Yazidi heritage, were forcibly kidnapped by ISIL from their village in northern Iraq.\u00a0 After their capture, Individual 2 and Individual 3 were taken to a prison in Syria maintained by ISIL where they were held with Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>According to the affidavit, on or about Sept. 24, 2014, Mueller, Individual 2 and Individual 3 were transferred from the ISIL prison to the custody of Abu and Umm Sayyaf.\u00a0 Abu Sayyaf, who reported directly to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was ISIL\u2019s minister of oil and gas, and was previously responsible for ISIL\u2019s media program.\u00a0 The Sayyafs maintained several residences where they <a 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