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2022-03-12 Terror Networks
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New Islamic State leader is brother of slain caliph Baghdadi
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Follow up to this story from yesterday. Hattip to 3dc.
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, whose appointment the group announced on Thursday, is the brother of slain former caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to two Iraqi security officials and one Western security source.
Islamic State named its new leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Quraishi
… An Nahar spells his name Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi … in a recorded audio message distributed online.
The announcement came weeks after the death last month of Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi,
… Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi in An Nahar’s stylebook, also known as Haji Amer Qardash or Haji Abdullah Qardash… the man who in turn succeeded Baghdadi in 2019 and became the group's second so-called caliph. Both Baghdadi and Quraishi died by blowing themselves and family members up during U.S. raids on their hideouts in northern Syria.
CLOSE BAGHDADI AIDE
The new leader's real name is Juma Awad al-Badri, he is Iraqi and Baghdadi's elder brother, two Iraqi security officials told Rooters on Friday. A Western security official confirmed the two men were brothers, but did not specify which was older.
It is the first time this has been revealed since Islamic State announced the new leader. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to speak to media.
Little is known about Badri, but he comes from a close circle of shadowy, battle-hardened Iraqi jihadists who emerged in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S. invasion.
"Badri is a radical who joined salafi jihadist groups in 2003 and was known to always accompany Baghdadi as a personal companion and Islamic legal adviser," one of the Iraqi security officials said.
| The new leader's real name is Juma Awad al-Badri, he is Iraqi and Baghdadi's elder brother, two Iraqi security officials told Rooters on Friday. |
The official said Badri has long been head of Islamic State's Shura Council, a leadership group that guides strategy and decides succession when a caliph is killed or captured.
Research by the late Iraqi Islamic State expert Hisham al-Hashemi published online in 2020 said Badri was leader of the five-member Shura Council.
The audio recording announcing the new leader said he had been named by Quraishi as his successor before his death.
Badri's nom-de-guerre, also Quraishi, indicates that like his brother and his predecessor he is believed to trace his lineage from the Prophet Mohammed, giving him religious clout among fellow jihadists.
Iraqi security officials and analysts have said that the new leader will continue trying to wage attacks across Iraq and Syria and that he might have his own vision for how those attacks are carried out.
NEW SECURITY THREAT
One of the Iraqi security officials who spoke to Rooters on Friday said Badri had recently moved across the border from Syria, where he has been holed up, and into Iraq.
Badri will inherit control over financial resources that are significant, according to a report written in December by the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
sanctions monitoring team.
"Recent assessments ... put the group's reserves at between $25 million and $50 million," it said, but added that Islamic State spends more than it earns, relying on "opportunistic extortion, looting and kidnap for ransom."
Badri has two other brothers, one detained for years by Iraqi security services, the Iraqi security official said. The other brother's whereabouts is not known, but he is believed to be another Islamist radical, he said.
Rudaw gives us even more alternate spellings:
Former leader: Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, whose real name was Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli
The new guy: Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi |
Muhajir called on Muslims to pledge allegiance to the new leader, but refused to share his real name and photo. Despite sharing the same nom de guerre, the two are not believed to be related. Instead, al-Qurayshi stems from Quraish, the name of the tribe that the Prophet Muhammad belonged to, and a tribe that ISIS claim its leaders originate from. The former Qurayshi's real name was Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli
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