...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
myrmidon group His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...is still alive as he hides in desert border areas between Iraq and Syria, a military commander said.
"Al-Baghdadi is not dead and still moving in the desert areas on the border between Iraq and Syria," Spokesperson for the Joint Operations Command Brigadier General Yahya Rasool said.
"To be more precise, al-Baghdadi, according to our intelligence information, is moving between Iraq’s border city of al-Qa’im and Syria’s Abu Kamal city on the Euphrates River," he stressed.
Rasool added that dozens of Islamic State turbans are still hiding at underground shelters in such border areas, escaping from security campaigns launched by Iraqi troops.