A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi making what would have been his first public appearance, at a mosque in the centre of Iraq's second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet. REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TV/File Photo
The Guardian: 'We will get him': the long hunt for Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
The world’s most wanted man remains at large, but as his ‘caliphate’ has crumbled so has the discipline of his leadership.
Day and night for the past three years, an unprecedented number of the world’s spies have zeroed in on a patch of Iraq and Syria to hunt for one man. Their target, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group, has eluded them all. But only just.
The most wanted man on the planet has been traced to a specific place at least three times in the past 18 months alone. And despite the protection of a devoted network, there have been other sightings of the reclusive leader, reported by Isis members shortly afterwards and confirmed later by intelligence officers. Being a fugitive in the digital age, or in a losing cause, clearly has its shortfalls.
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WNU Editor: They will get him one day.
2 comments:
Soooooo looking forward to the pictures of him lying dead on the ground with at least one shot through an eye socket, Bin laden style :P it's commmming, you can run but you can't hide you mothafucka! enjoy your last few months or years on this planet, hiding, scared, filthy as the pig you are :P
Hope seal team 6 make him suffer A LOT for all the sh*t he put civilians through.. ohhh good idea.. drop him off in Iraq, let the civilians kill him with shovels and stones. I'd watch that! With commercial breaks bringing in billions haha
He's been dead or paralyzed six or seven times now.
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