IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been declared dead several times in the past, including by Russia and Iran. Now it’s really like that, US President Donald Trump confirmed today.
The hatred of the leader of the Islamic State was so deep that the wish became the father of the thought.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. American President Donald Trump confirmed this today, after having already given signals about the death of the IS leader. Individual units conducted an operation specifically against the terrorist leader.
In the past, Russia reported its death, later Syria, the Syrian resistance, Iraq and also Iran. It was invariably impossible to get confirmation because the Islamic State was silent.
Besides, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi led an underground, invisible existence that gave him the nicknames “the Invisible Sheikh” and “the Ghost.” The last nickname was a conception of the Shiite militia Hezbollah from Lebanon, an arch-enemy of the ultra-militant Sunni leader.
All those years, the fact that al-Baghdadi was still alive was just as hard to prove as his death. Islamic State never had an interest in reporting its death.
It was better if the outside world thought he was still in control. As a result, there is a chance that if the organisation reported its death, it could have happened months ago. Now it is the American president who announces it.