| Darn it. Better luck next time, guys. |
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...could have been captured by the US-backed Kurdish fighters.
"These reports are baseless, with no evidence. He has not been captured", Gabriel told Fox News.
Over this week, there’s been much speculation on social media and beyond that the SDF had seized the ISIS* leader during their offensive on the terrorist group.
Baghdadi, who remains the world’s most wanted man, is believed to be alive and hiding on the Euphrates banks even though he has repeatedly been reported to have been killed or gravely injured.
"Iraqi intelligence is following Baghdadi and we believe he never stays in one place for more than one day. We have information he still moved from towns in Syria and entered the Iraq border through Anbar with movement to bordering Salahuddin", said Abu Ali al-Basri, director general of Iraq’s intelligence office at the Ministry of Interior.
Fox News cited several political and security analysts, who suggested that the ISIS leader, who may be hiding in the Syrian desert, is trying to stay under-the-radar by wearing modern clothes, driving a simple car and not using mobiles.
Basri told the media outlet that two of the last people to meet with him were Ismail al Essawai, a ISIS member of the Education Committee, and Jamal Khalil al Mashadani, the ISIS leader in Kirkuk last November. Ten days after the alleged meeting, Mashadani was detained by Iraq’s National Intelligence Service.
In October, he was reported to have ordered the execution of 320 of his followers, including senior commanders, for "disloyalty" and "recklessness".