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Captured Woman Not Islamic State Leader's Wife, Iraqi Officials Confirm

Kat De Guzman   |

Dec 05, 2014 02:37 AM EST

An Iraqi official has released a statement on Wednesday saying that the woman detained in Lebanon is not the wife of the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (ISIL) militants Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi and was identified instead as the sister of a suspected terrorist held in captive in the country.