Kurdish official: ISIS leader Baghdadi almost certainly alive

Home World Kurdish official: ISIS leader Baghdadi almost certainly alive 17-07-2017 06:51 AM Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said on Monday he was 99 percent sure that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located south of the Syrian city of Raqqa, after reports that he had been killed. “Baghdadi is definitely alive. He is not dead. We have information that he is alive. We believe 99 percent he is alive,” Lahur Talabany told Reuters in an interview. “Don’t forget his roots go back to al-Qaeda days in Iraq. He was hiding from security services. He knows what he is doing.” Pressure in Raqqa Iraqi security forces have ended three years of ISIS rule in the Iraqi city of Mosul, and the group is under growing pressure in Raqqa. Still, Talabany said ISIS was shifting tactics despite low morale and it would take three or four years to eliminate the group. After defeat, ISIS would wage an insurgency and resemble al-Qaeda on “steroids”, he said. The future leaders of ISIS were expected to be intelligence officers who served under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the men credited with devising the group’s strategy. *Reuters

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Kurdish official: ISIS leader Baghdadi almost certainly alive

17-07-2017 06:51 AM

Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said on Monday he was 99 percent sure that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located south of the Syrian city of Raqqa, after reports that he had been killed.

“Baghdadi is definitely alive. He is not dead. We have information that he is alive. We believe 99 percent he is alive,” Lahur Talabany told Reuters in an interview.

“Don’t forget his roots go back to al-Qaeda days in Iraq. He was hiding from security services. He knows what he is doing.”

Pressure in Raqqa
Iraqi security forces have ended three years of ISIS rule in the Iraqi city of Mosul, and the group is under growing pressure in Raqqa.

Still, Talabany said ISIS was shifting tactics despite low morale and it would take three or four years to eliminate the group. After defeat, ISIS would wage an insurgency and resemble al-Qaeda on “steroids”, he said.

The future leaders of ISIS were expected to be intelligence officers who served under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the men credited with devising the group’s strategy.

*Reuters

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