Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Is ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Dead?

This image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. MILITANT VIDEO

Iraqi News: IS chief al-Baghdadi clinically dead following successful airstrike in Syria: Source

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to be “clinically dead” after an Iraqi airstrike targeted him during a meeting with a host of IS leaders in Syria last June, a security source was quoted as saying.

“Iraqi warplanes launched an airstrike inside the Syrian territories in June, targeting a meeting of Islamic State leaders, where the group’s chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was present,” the source told AlSumaria News on Monday.

According to the source, the airstrike left al-Baghdadi mortally wounded and incapable of assuming his duties, prompting the group’s leaders to nominate Abu Othman al-Tunisi to succeed him.

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Update #1: Is ISIS Terror Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Really Dead? (Al Bawaba)
Update #2: ISIS names NEW LEADER after airstrike leaves Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘clinically dead’ (Daily Star)

WNU Editor: This is not the first time that reports of ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi being killed have been made.

3 comments:

B.Poster said...

I guess sooner or later he like everyone else dies. As such, eventually the reports of his death will be accurate. The old saying "a broken clock is right twice a day" seems to apply here. Since US (un)intelligence has no idea where he is, any airstrike that killed him would have been random chance based upon second hand or third hand information on where top ISIS personnel might be any reporting on this is sheer speculation at best. If I were to hazard a guess at his whereabouts, he is alive and well somewhere coordinating ISIS activities.

Anonymous said...

Bring me his head, then I'll believe he's dead.

B.Poster said...

I tend to agree. I like the rhyme.:-)