ISIS leader al-Baghdadi pictured for first time since 2014
The Washington Post reports that al-Baghdadi offered his support for the perpetrators of the attacks on Christians in Sri Lanka; Ben Hall reports from London.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has resurfaced in a new video, the first since 2014. ISIL has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations, European Union and many individual states. al-Baghdadi is considered a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States, and the U.S. State Department has offered a reward of up to $25 million for information or intelligence leading to his capture or death.
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been pictured in a new video for the first time since July 2014.
In the video — released by ISIS’s propaganda arm al-Furqan and obtained by SITE Intelligence Group – Baghdadi reportedly claims that his followers died fighting to the end in territories and cities that have been routed by U.S.-backed coalition forces.
He also claims that the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka were retaliation for ISIS being defeated in their Baghouz, their last stronghold in Syria, and refers to the recent oustings of leaders in Algeria and Sudan, meaning that the video must have been shot within the last week.
Pentagon officials say the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is leading the analyzing of the video.
Col. Scott Rawlinson at Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, the group established by the U.S.-led international coalition fighting ISIS, told Fox News: “At this time, we are working to independently corroborate the validity of the video posted today reportedly showing Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. We are continuing to support partner forces in their mission of an enduring defeat of Daesh, which includes the capability to finance their operations, recruit new members, and collaborate to conduct violent extremist attacks.”
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“Hopefully we will reach him very soon, especially now that ISIS has been defeated in its final place in Baghouz, Syria and they have lost all their land in Iraq,” Sabah al Namaan, a spokesperson for Iraq’s counterterrorism agency, told Fox News earlier this month. “Now, we have a real opportunity to catch or kill him.”
The rat has no where to run; perhaps he’ll be captured by the Kurds, inshallah.
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May the goat-molesting fleabag sonofabitch die alone, cold, hungry and forgotten.
Bergdahls baby daddy.
Can’t wait till’ a special operator has to do DNA swab in a rubble pile to ID this POS!
$25 million you say. Makes a man ponder going to hunt the bastard down.
Let’s be honest though, it would require a lot of work, and I’m too lazy for that.
^^^word^^^
Executive Outcomes could do that job….
Oh wait, the UN killed Executive Outcomes.
“… and we shall call you MOAB Deed.”
May he be nothing but the little mouse fart in the end.
“Minot this is Eyes, you copy the targeting data?”
“Roger that Eyes, birds outbound estimate TOT in 18 mikes. Pull your bird back to stand off pos, Minot awaits BDA!”
Too much club, 5/77, you don’t putt with a nine iron. Tell the Kurds, or perhaps the Jordanians his posit and watch the show.
Aw gee Dad, we never get to have any fun. No time for half measures. Bastard ain’t got took out yet after all these years and that kind of price on his head? Somebodies that are high up the ladder are looking out for this POS.
Only thing that would make my show better is if Larsi and dashildabeast and oblowme were each tied to one of the inbound birds ala Dr. Strangelove. Film at 11.
He appears to have put on weight. Living the good life in Pakistan I bet. Perhaps in Osama’s old neighborhood near the Pakistani version of West Point.
Obama and Lars just got a hard-on that he is still alive.
How bout seeing him pictured for the last time?
Hanging from a meat hook until he is jerky.
It seems that the market price for his current position is greater than $25,000,000
Got to raise the price until it becomes worth it for Mason and Big John to get to work.
Heck, I will go look for him for $26,000,000
/sarc
The fuck is this guy still alive, much less making videos?