A combo of two handout pictures released by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (L) and by Iraqi Ministry of Interior shows photographs of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (AFP)
Daily Mail: ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi 'has fled Iraq to Syria in a YELLOW TAXI to avoid drawing suspicion'
* Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS' chief, was said to have been hiding out in Rawa, Iraq
* When Iraqi troops retook city of Qaim some 50 miles away, he decided to leave
* He's said to have urged militants to keep fighting before he jumped in yellow cab
* Al-Baghdadi now understood to have relocated to the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has reportedly fled from Iraq to Syria in a yellow taxi in a bid to avoid drawing suspicion.
An intelligence source claimed the terror group's chief was hiding out in Rawa, northwestern Iraq, when troops entered Qaim some 50 miles away near the Syrian border.
Al-Baghdadi felt his presence in Rawa 'threatened his life', so he scampered over the border to Deir ez-Zor in a vehicle synonymous with the western world of New York City.
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Update #1: Did ISIS chief Baghdadi flee from Iraq to Syria in taxi? (Al-Arabiya)
Update #2: Daesh Leader al-Baghdadi Reportedly Flees Iraq for Syria in a Yellow Taxi (Sputnik)
WNU Editor: I am always skeptical of these reports. For all we know .... he may have died months ago.
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WHAT! No Uber?
Better view?
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