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Baghdadi immobile: IS to 'elect' stand-in leader
2015-05-12
[ARABNEWS] The chief of 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....
holy warrior group has reportedly been moved from Iraq to Syria amid tight security, holy warrior defectors told US-based news site The Daily Beast in a report on Sunday.

The transfer of 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...
to the northern city of Raqqa, which is the capital of the group's self-declared caliphate, comes two months after serious injuries that left his spine damaged and his left leg immobile.

In March, British media had reported that Baghdadi was maimed in an Arclight airstrike launched by the US-led coalition.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
Pentagon front man Col. Steve Warren had told The Daily Beast: "We have no reason to believe it was Baghdadi."

A group of nine doctors was also transferred to the Syrian city to treat the leader who was moved after top commanders decided he would be safer in Raqqa than djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, where an Iraqi offensive is expected to start later this summer to recapture Iraq's second largest city.

Although mentally alert and able to issue orders, Baghdadi's wounds led the group's religious governing Shoura Council to make a final decision on a momentary stand-in leader.

The substitute leader, who is expected to be under the rule of Baghdadi, will be a super deputy to the caliph, according to the news website.

He will be expected to travel back and forth between front-lines in Syria and Iraq and handle day-to-day leadership in the caliphate.

The name of the super deputy to the caliph is due to be announced this week by the Shoura Council.

Some names who emerged as potential contenders included Abu Ali Al-Anbari, a Mosul native and former major general in the Iraqi Army as well as former physics teacher, Abu Ala Al-Afri and the current Islamic State governor of Raqqa, Abu Luqman.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Are bedpans halal? Colostomy bags?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2015-05-12 17:29  

#1  Is that immobile as in paralyzed or immobile as in Yasser Arafat immobile?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2015-05-12 01:15  

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