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| Terror Networks |
| Revealed: the Islamic State 'cabinet', from finance minister to suicide bomb deployer |
| 2014-07-10 |
| Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, one of the world's most wanted jihadists, is aided by a "cabinet" of deputies, who manage both the Islamic State's military operations and its new, self declared, caliphate. Documents seized from the house of a member of the Islamic State in a raid by the Iraqi military have revealed, for the first time and in remarkable detail, the leadership structure of this secretive organization. ...and a more in-depth look, from the same source: The information, which was found on memory sticks taken from the home of Abu Abdul Rahman al-Bilawi, al-Baghdadi's military chief of staff for Iraqi territory, who was killed in the military raid, identified two key deputies who are charged with managing terrain controlled by the Islamic State in Syria and in Iraq respectively. Unlike 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... both of these men formerly held senior roles in the Iraqi military and are seasoned in battle. Abu Ali al-Anbari, who is charged with managing operations in the parts of Syria controlled by the Islamic State, was a major general in the Iraqi military under ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, Mr Hashimi said. He's said to hail from the northern Iraqi province of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn.... Abu Muslim al-Turkmani was a lieutenant colonel in the Iraqi military's intelligence core and also spent time as a special forces officer. "These men the reasons behind the strength of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. They are the key people who keep him in power," said Mr Hashimi. The documents reveal the meticulous lengths that the jihadist group has gone to to transform itself into an organization that is capable of ruling its own state. Al-Anbari and al-Turkmani have a clear hierarchy of men beneath them who make up the "governors" of the "local provinces" of the jihadist's new country. Earlier this month, during the first days of the holy Moslem month of Ramadan, al-Baghdadi made a shock announcement, declaring the swathe of land controlled by the Islamic State no longer terrain in Iraq and Syria, but part of a new Islamic caliphate. The territory includes Mosul in northern Iraq, the country's second most populous city. |
| Posted by:newc |
| #1 So basically they are ex army boys. Was it wise to dismantle the army in hindsight?. |
| Posted by: Paul D 2014-07-10 10:52 |