Islamic State Leader in Somalia Has Family Living in Britain

While Abdul Qadir Mumin leads terrorists abroad, his wife and three children live quietly in an English town.

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Abdul Qadir Mumin in an al-Shabaab video from July 2015.

While Abdul Qadir Mumin leads terrorists abroad, his wife and three children live quietly in an English town.

Abdul Qadir Mumin, leader of the Islamic State in Somalia, lived in the UK from 2003 to 2010, gaining citizenship and delivering extremist sermons in London mosques. During that time he married British Somali woman Muna Abdule and had a son and two daughters with her.

Mumin fled to Somalia after MI5 investigated his radicalising activities. Mrs Abdule now lives in a two-bedroom council flat in Slough, Berkshire with their children, aged 20, 18 and 17. She says she and the children have had no contact with him in over ten years.

Family friends describe Mumin as a distant father and husband, increasingly hard-line during his time in Britain. He reportedly has four wives in total and defected from al-Shabaab to IS in 2015.

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