{"id":184599,"date":"2019-03-04T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T08:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=184599"},"modified":"2019-03-07T06:41:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:41:56","slug":"isis-bloodthirsty-leader-is-being-protected-by-the-us-army-claims-iraqi-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=184599","title":{"rendered":"ISIS\u2019 bloodthirsty leader is being PROTECTED by the US army claims Iraqi politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tim Hanlon \u2013 Daily Star March 3, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_127692\" style=\"width: 318px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/McCain-and-Baghdadi-in-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127692\" class=\"wp-image-127692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/McCain-and-Baghdadi-in-2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-127692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late Sen John McCain with Simon Elliot, (left of McCain, otherwise known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi leader of ISIS) in the background, photographed near the Syrian border with Lebanon in 2014. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iraqi member of parliament, Hassan Salem, claims that the US is protecting the ISIS leader as of fear a draft bill that would expel foreign troops in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Fighters for the terror group continue to lose ground with coalition forces closing in on their small remaining stronghold, about half a square mile, in the Syrian Euphrates valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a statement, the politician said US military forces in Ain Al-Assad military base provide all means of support for Baghdadi\u2019s movements between Iraq and Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He claimed that al-Baghdadi is in the Anbar desert in the west of Iraq and not with the ISIS force in the Syrian Euphrates valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20190228-iraq-mp-us-giving-daesh-head-baghdadi-protection\/\">Middle East Monitor<\/a><\/strong><\/span> report him saying: \u201cAl-Baghdadi is using the Anbar desert as a safe haven while the US forces provide him with all means of support from their station at the Ain Al-Assad military base in the Anbar province.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He added that the support for Al Baghdadi \u201cstems from Washington\u2019s fear of a draft bill on expelling foreign troops from Iraq, which the parliament intends to vote on during the new legislative term.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Baghdadi has not appeared in a video since he declared himself leader of the caliphate in a 2014 speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He has posted various rambling audio messages urging followers to keep fighting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It has been claimed that ISIS fighters are angry with Baghdadi for disappearing into the desert rather than battling with them to the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mohammed Ali, a captured Canadian ISIS fighter, told the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=184583\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sunday Times<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: \u201cHe\u2019s hiding somewhere, people were angry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It backs up reports that western officials in the area believe that Al-Baghdadi is actually in the Iraqi desert of Anbar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A Sunday Times source said: \u201cAround one year ago there were a lot of assassinations between (ISIS members).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cBetween those from the Gulf, other groups and Iraqis. They were killing each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe conflict was between foreign fighters. They were asking where was the caliph?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Baghdadi\u2019s death has been reported many times in recent years but the terrorist has re-emerged each time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/763150\/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-us-army-iraq-syria\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi member of parliament, Hassan Salem, claims that the US is helping the ISIS leader\u2019s movements between Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,95,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iraq","category-beheadings-by-muslim-militants","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184603,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184599\/revisions\/184603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}