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Raqqa/London June 12 (TNS): Syrian state television has claimed the world’s most wanted terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an airstrike, according to several reports.

It’s not, however, the first time the leader of ISIS has been reported dead – the latest claims have been met with skepticism by many experts and could well turn out to be untrue.

It would certainly be in the interests of the Assad regime to claim that the world’s most wanted terrorist had been killed to provide it with a short -term propaganda victory.

ISIS’s official media wing Amaq has also not confirmed the news.

Al-Baghdadi, a hate preacher who has a $25million bounty on his head, had been believed to be hiding out in the desert outside the besieged city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

But intelligence agencies believe he escaped from the city while it was being retaken by the Iraqi army.

It was thought he may have been trying to get to ISIS’ de facto capital in Raqqa.

Reports that al-Baghdadi had been killed emerged as Iraqi forces claimed that his deputy Ayad al-Jumaili, had been killed in an air strike near Iraq’s border with Syria.

The hate preacher, who has a $25million bounty on his head, has falsely reported dead before.

Syrian activists, Raqqa24, did report an airstrike in Raqqa killed at least seven civilians on Saturday, although there was no mention made of al-Baghdadi

In January it was reported the leader had been ‘critically injured in airstrikes in northern Iraq.

The Pentagon said in December it believed that the ISIS chief was alive, despite repeated efforts by the US-led coalition to take out the jihadist group leader.

‘We do think Baghdadi is alive and is still leading ISIL and we are obviously doing everything we can to track his movements,’ Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told CNN.

‘If we get the opportunity, we certainly would take advantage of any opportunity to deliver him the justice he deserves,’ he said.

‘We’re doing everything we can. This is something we’re spending a lot of time on.’

According to an official Iraqi government document, al-Baghdadi was born in Samarra in Iraq in 1971.

He apparently joined the insurgency that erupted after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and spent time in an American military prison.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 13 civilians have been killed in coalition air raids over the past 24 hours.

The U.S. is providing battlefield support to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces trying to capture Raqqa from the Islamic State group

In March, the Pentagon told media outlets that al-Baghdadi was still alive despite reports that ISIS was crumbling.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson later said that it was a ‘matter of time’ before the ISIS leader was killed.

‘Nearly all of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s deputies are now dead, including the mastermind behind the attacks in Brussels, Paris, and elsewhere. It is only a matter of time before Baghdadi himself meets the same fate,’ Tillerson said.

DailyMail.com has contacted the US Department of Defense for comment.

Meanwhile, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 13 civilians have been killed in coalition air raids in Raqqa over the past 24 hours.

There was no immediate comment from the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group.

The United States is providing battlefield support to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces trying to capture Raqqa from the Islamic State group.

Since launching the battle one week ago, the SDF has penetrated two neighborhoods in the city, at its eastern and western fringes. Courtesy The Mail

>>1359625

Last summer, when I first heard that a mysterious figure named ‘Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’ was being declared “the leader of all Muslims everywhere” by ‘Islamic State’ propagandists, it was one of the most disturbing things I had heard in a while.

There was only one figure in Islamic tradition that could make that claim of themselves and this is a figure rooted in Islamic prophecy concerning the End of the World. But there’s an explosive claim that has been circulating for many months now: that ISIL’s ‘leader’ and ‘caliph’, the elusive Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, might in fact be an Israeli Mossad agent.

I had broadly refrained from mentioning that in my posts because I wasn’t entirely sure of the reliability of the sources (and I’m still not), but the alleged original source for this information was reputed to be Edward Snowden in the first instance. According to this ‘Mossad theory’ going around, Baghdadi, the so-called “Caliph” of the ‘Islamic State’, is allegedly in fact an actor named ‘Elliot Shimon’ and a Mossad-trained operative.

Some people’s immediate reaction to the idea of ISIL’s leader being an Israeli operative might be to laugh at it or say something to the effect of “there they are, blaming it on the Jews again”, but let’s consider the matter for a moment (and by the way, ‘Mossad’ doesn’t mean ‘the Jews’). Baghdadi is a figure who is so elusive that there are only two known photographs and one video recording of him in existence. The image depicting him above is from a Charlie Hebdo satire piece from last year. Curiously enough, I included an embedded link to that one known video of him speaking in this post last year, but have since discovered that You Tube has removed the video (I’m not sure why You Tube would remove a video of a man making a speech in a mosque and yet fail to remove videos of violent ISIL/ISIS crimes). The fact is that, in essence, we know practically nothing about him; leading security “experts” have declared “They know physically who this guy is, but his backstory is just myth.” He doesn’t make speeches or release propaganda videos like Osama bin Laden or the odious Ayman al-Zahwiri.

Essentially, once you peer beyond the fog of the shaky official narrative, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi could literally be anyone.

The notion that the man declared “caliph” and “leader for Muslims everywhere” (not my words, but the claim made by ISIS/ISIL) might actually be an Israeli agent is beyond perverse; as schemes go, it would be utterly diabolical. But then let us also remember that Osama bin Laden and various senior and non-senior Al-Qaeda operatives were in fact CIA assets, which was no less perverse. This doesn’t mean Baghdadi is this mysterious ‘Shimon Elliot” either; I’ve tried for a while to identify the original source for this alleged leak and haven’t been able to ascertain it, although the idea has been periodically going viral, reproduced on countless websites and social-media streams. “It’s utter BS,” says Glenn Greenwald, the investigative journalist who helped break the Snowden/NSA story. “Snowden never said anything like that and no [NSA] documents suggest it.”

https://theburningbloggerofbedlam.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/from-camp-bucca-to-caliph-the-mystery-of-isil-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-plus-the-mahdi-the-anti-christ-prophecy/

>>1359656

An American political commentator believes that the United States and Israel are undoubtedly the world’s “two leading terrorist organizations.”

“There really can be no serious doubt that the United States and Israel are the two leading terrorist organizations in the world which is the reason why the Department of State has to made incoherent claims such as that Iran is classified as a terrorist organization,” said American philosopher James Fetzer, Press TV reported.

He made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday when asked to comment on an annual report by the US State Department that has accused Iran of supporting international terrorist groups, including those militant groups fighting against ISIL terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

The report, however, makes almost no mention of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, which are widely believed to be the main supporters of terrorists in the Middle East. The US itself stands accused of financing and arming militants in the region.

Fetzer said “the United States created the ISIS (ISIL), the United States is sponsoring the ISIS, the United States has opposed the United Nations’ declaration that ISIS is a terrorist organization.”

He also stated that “[Senator] John McCain [Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services] flew to Syria and was photographed with the leader of ISIS who is recognized as a Mossad agent.”

“The latest reports in fact have two high ranking advisers of ISIS, also Mossad agents being captured by American Special Forces in Iraq, which must have been inadvertence of the United States is supporting ISIS, which is widely known in Washington and it’s John McCain’s army,” he added.

“The United States is a great sponsor of terrorism as is Israel, which occurs repeatedly around the world. We should be supporting Syria and Iran and not attacking them or seeking to undermine them,” Fetzer noted.

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