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#BREAKING: ISIS releases the very video of the 7-8 terrorists pledging their allegiance to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the Caliph of ISIS, before attacking Sri Lanka. This means Al-Baghdadi is alive and well as allegiance cannot be pledged to a dead Caliph.
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1120726798814334976
BREAKING: UK spy agency responds to Trump’s false allegation they spied on him: "As we have previously stated, the allegations that GCHQ was asked to conduct 'wire tapping' against the then President Elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored."
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1121059847246684161
okay, dwork
this fucking guy
After ISIS' Defeat: Where is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?
The elusive leader remains a dangerous symbol of an increasingly global extremist network.
By Paul D. Shinkman, Senior National Security Writer March 25, 2019, at 1:38 p.m.
CONFIRMATION THIS weekend that U.S.-backed fighters cleared the remaining Syrian territory controlled by the Islamic State group prompts a burning question: Where is the terrorist network's founder, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?
Western officials have long downplayed the importance of capturing or killing the elusive leader as the U.S.-led coalition focused on ridding Syria and Iraq of the insurgent network's so-called caliphate, which at its height spanned an area the size of Portugal.
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However, the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, now enters a new phase of broad insurgency as it tries to retain relevance and recruitment without an established homeland, making its symbolic leaders all the more significant in the network's increasingly global campaign.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence assessed earlier this year that, with the fall of its territory all but inevitable, the threats the Islamic State group poses will morph: "We assess that ISIS will seek to exploit Sunni grievances, societal instability, and stretched security forces to regain territory in Iraq and Syria in the long term." The Foundation Defense of Democracies warned in 2017 about the potency of the group's apocalyptic ideology even without formally controlling territory.
The global war on terror has been in part defined by intensive focus on tracking down the leaders of insurgent networks, including the highly publicized efforts to find and kill al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden in a safe house in Pakistan in 20111.
Yet when asked about Baghdadi's whereabouts in March 2018, coalition commander Marine Col. Seth Folsom told reporters from his headquarters in Iraq, "he's not having an effect out here."
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-03-25/after-isis-defeat-where-is-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi