BEIRUT: Nusra Front leader Anas Sharkas, better known as Abu Anas al-Shishani, has reportedly threatened destructive attacks on Lebanon if any harm is inflicted on his detained wife and children.
Local daily As-Safir said the arrest of Shishani’s wife, Ala al-Oqaili, and his two sons had angered Shishani, who telephoned a senior Muslim Scholar Committee official, demanding speedy action in the release of his wife or else Lebanon would face “woe, destruction and much worse to come” if his wife and or children were harmed.
It described the capture of both Shishani’s wife and the reported ex-wife of ISIS chief Abu Bakr Baghdadi as a “big fish.”
Oqaili is being held in a prison cell at the Lebanese Defense Ministry next to Baghdadi’s ex-wife, Saja Dulaimi, who is now in her third week of detention, under strict control measures by female soldiers.
Interrogation with Dulaimi revealed that she was pregnant and that her key role had been fundraising to finance Nusra Front, the report said.
It said money from "external sides, particularly from Qatar," had been channeled to her.
Doctors were allowed to examine both Dulaimi and Oqaili, As-Safir said, adding that the two women were allowed to stay in touch with the children, who were taken to a social care center under heavy military guard.
Dulaimi refused to say who the father was, insisting that she had not left Lebanon since her release in March, a sign she got pregnant while on Lebanese territory, according to As-Safir.
However, investigators put all possibilities into account, including one that the fetus is from Baghdadi (meaning that she had visited Iraq or Syria’s Raqqa).
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