MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
US ups reward to $25 million for the capture of ISIS' so-called caliph
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is now worth US$ 25 million to the State Department The United States raised the previous offer for information on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The reward is now worth US$ 25 million for information that would help locate, arrest or convict him, it was announced in a statement. In October 2011, the State Department offered $10 million for information on Baghdadi through its Rewards for Justice program.
Baghdadi, whose real name is Ibrahim al-Samarrai, was elected in June, 2014 by the majlis al-shura (consultative council or Shura council), representing the ahl al-hall wal-aqd (its people of authority) of the Islamic State, to be their caliph, which he claims to be.
The territory of the Sunni-terrorist-organisation-run caliphate is said to comprise parts of Iraq and Syria. ISIS has been reported to control areas in Lybia and Afghanistan as well. Baghdadi is believed to be in the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, Iraq, or in Islamic State-held territory to the west of the city, close to the border with Syria.
Kurdish officials believe that growing pressure resulting from a coalition military assault on Mosul is causing Baghdadi and his top lieutenants to move around in an attempt to hide themselves.
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Dec 19th, 2016 - 02:11 pm +3There is no evidence that al-Baghdadi was ever a CIA client or ever worked in a pro-West capacity. Nice conspiracy notion, though, but hardly convincing or creative.
scrdmgl, you have your conspiracies all mixed up. “The original Muhajedin movement” took place when al-Baghdadi was about 8 years old. Contrary to popular opinion, the CIA did not enlist every Arab, Pashto, and Dari speaker who was of that age at the time. Al-Baghdadi was a nobody until about 2003, long the original mujahideen had finished their work in removing the Soviets from Afghanistan. Even subsequent to 2003, when the invasion of Iraq sort of peeved al-Baghdadi, there is no evidence that the CIA or other intel organisation considered him to be anything but just another religious case. The US held him for a few months in 2004, figured he was of no consequence to anyone, and let him loose. But you slide in here and try to tell us this guy who somehow groomed by the CIA to do what? You really need to get back on your space ship.
Dec 19th, 2016 - 05:42 pm +3scrdmgl, the article is about al-Baghdadi. Try to focus on the subject of the article and proof of your allegation that al-Baghdadi was groomed by the US CIA.
Dec 19th, 2016 - 09:26 pm +3I doubt that you correctly recognise the avatar, or its significance, but I suspect you smell another conspiracy. Try to focus. It has nothing to do with al-Baghdadi.
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