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Iraq
Report: IS Leader Flees To Northern Iraq Following Attacks In Syria
2014-10-02
[Ynet] An Iraqi intelligence source told Iraqi media that Islamic State
...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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
arrived yesterday from the city of Raqqa in north-east Syria to Nineveh Province in northern Iraq along with the organization's top commanders.

According to the source, al-Baghdadi and his fellow commanders escaped Syria following US Arclight airstrikes against the organization in the area.

No other source has confirmed this report.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi bugged out for northern Iraq from Syria? Thought he told our military guys, he was going to New York. He actually thought he was the ONE--what audacity.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-02 15:04  

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