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Showing posts with label al-Baghdadi. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 06, 2014

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi emerges from shadows to rally Islamist followers

Most wanted man in Middle East lays down challenge not only to Baghdad and the west but also jilted mothership al-Qaida
For a man so mysterious that there are only two known photographs of him, it was a brazen public debut. The most wanted man in the Middle East, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is also one of the most elusive, an evanescent figure behind the Islamist insurrection sweeping the Syrian and Iraqi interior.

And yet according to jihadist websites at the weekend, here he was on video openly rallying the adepts of the new Islamic state he had just pronounced in the largest city that his fighters had taken. Clad in black robes that invoked a distant, almost mythical phase of Islamic history, Baghdadi gave a half-hour sermon during Friday prayers in Mosul and led worship inside one of the most important Islamic sites in Iraq in open defiance of the US intelligence officials who have put a $10m bounty on his head.
In doing so, he laid down a challenge not only to the authorities in Baghdad and the foreign powers that want stability in the country, but to the radical Islamist mothership from which the Isis movement broke – al-Qaida, and its current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Saturday, July 05, 2014

ISIS caliph al-Baghdadi said to be severely injured, flees to Syria


al-Baghdadi2If this turns out to be true, it will be a severe setback for the nascent caliphate — but with the Islamic State’s hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against it, surely not an unexpected one. Succession in the historical caliphates was often a haphazard and violent affair, and almost certainly will be in this case, if al-Baghdadi dies and his Islamic State holds together at all.
“Iraqi Isis Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘Severely Injured and Flees to Syria,’” by Vasudevan Sridharan, International Business Times, July 5, 2014:
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Sunni militant outfit Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), is said to have been severely injured in the raging battle forcing him to flee to neighbouring Syria.
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BREAKING - Isis video 'shows al-Baghdadi alive' after death rumours

Video released on known militant website appears to show Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi issuing clarion call for jihad


A still from the video appearing to show Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
A still from the video appearing to show Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The photo was tweeted by the jihadist affiliated group Furqan Media amd cannot be verified independently. Photograph: Furqan Media/EPA
The leader of the Islamic State jihadist group has purportedly ordered all Muslims to obey him in a video, released on Saturday.
The elusive Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who on 29 June proclaimed a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, made his appeal in a sermon delivered on Friday, in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
"I am the wali [leader] who presides over you, though I am not the best of you, so if you see that I am right, assist me," he said, wearing a black turban and robe.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/05/islamic-state-leader-muslims-caliphate-video-abu-bakr-baghdadi

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