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Iraq
ISIS: Abu Bakr Baghdadi is safe and in Anbar
2015-04-25
[Rudaw] A front man for the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, or ISIS, has denied a Western media report that Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the terror group's self-claimed "caliph," was seriously maimed by an Arclight airstrike, a Rudaw correspondent in Mosul has said.

"The rumors of the Caliph of Moslems, [Abu Bakr] Baghdadi, being injured by coalition Arclight airstrikes have no basis," Abu Assad Ansari, an ISIS front man and holy man reportedly said during a Friday sermon in Mosul.

"He is in Anbar and is commanding the war against Safavids [a term for Shiite fighters]," he added.

The remarks come after a report on Tuesday by the UK's Guardian claimed Baghdadi suffered a life-threatening injury in March during an air attack launched by the US-led coalition. The report alleged that Baghdadi had not yet "resumed day-to-day control of the organization."

Neither claim could has been confirmed.
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