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| Iraq |
| Top Islamic State figure makes appearance in Ramadi: Residents, expert |
| 2015-05-29 |
| [AlAhram] A top 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... figure has made an appearance in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, residents said, and a security expert identified him as "the blind judge" who ranks second in terms of religious authority within the Death Eater group. Residents of Ramadi said a blind man with one hand, whose head was shrouded, had delivered a speech in the Anbar quiet provincial capital's main mosque after evening prayer on Wednesday. They did not know who he was, but recognised him to be a senior figure because he was flanked by a large number of guards and said his accent indicated he was Iraqi. Iraqi security expert Hisham al-Hashimi, who closely tracks the ultra-hardline Islamic State myrmidons, identified the man as Ali Attiya al-Jubouri, also known as Abu Asim, or "the blind judge of the Islamic State". "This holy man who appeared in Ramadi yesterday is very famous," Hashimi said. "He is the second highest religious authority after 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... , and the fifth man in the organization of Daesh." Daesh is an Arabic name for Islamic State. Ramadi was overrun by Islamic State on May 17 in the most significant setback for Iraqi government forces in almost a year. |
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