{"id":197020,"date":"2019-10-28T08:05:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197020"},"modified":"2019-10-30T08:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T08:20:50","slug":"flashback-how-many-times-has-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-been-declared-dead-or-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197020","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: How many times has Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi been declared dead or injured?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ludovica Iaccino \u2013 International Business Times June 16, 2017<\/h1>\n
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Al Baghdadi. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Russia is investigating whether one of its air strikes killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, leader of Isis. The ministry of defence said that an air strike hit a meeting of Isis leaders in Raqqa, Syria, on 28 May.<\/span><\/p>\n

“According to information that is being checked through various channels, Isis leader Ibrahim Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed as a result of the strike, was also present at the meeting,” the ministry said in a statement, quoted by Russian media on 16 June.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, this is not the first time that Baghdadi, who has rarely made any public appearance since announcing the creation of Isis in 2014, has been reported dead or gravely injured.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the most recent instance, Syrian state TV said on 11 June that Baghdadi<\/a><\/strong><\/span> had been killed after being caught in a heavy artillery barrage in Raqqa, which Isis captured in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

In October 2016<\/strong>, reports claimed Baghdadi was in critical condition after he and three other Isis senior leaders had been poisoned.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June 2016<\/strong>, Iraqi TV channel said Baghdadi had been wounded in a US air strike in northern Iraq. US and Iraqi officials later said they were not able to confirm the report<\/strong><\/span>. <\/a>Later on that month, reports claimed Baghdadi had been killed in a coalition airstrike on Raqqa. According to some news outlets, the reports were fake<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The previous year, Moscow supported claims that Baghdadi had been injured by Iraqi forces<\/strong><\/span>. <\/a>The Iraqi army said in October 2015<\/strong> it had struck an Isis convoy in Anbar, Iraq, while Baghdadi was “heading to Karabla<\/strong><\/span><\/a> [central Iraq] to attend a meeting with Isis commanders”.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Iraqi security officials later told Reuters<\/strong><\/span><\/a> new information suggested “the convoy we struck was not carrying Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi”.<\/span><\/p>\n

A report by The Guardian said in April 2015 that <\/strong>Baghdadi had been “seriously wounded” <\/strong><\/span><\/a>in a US-led coalition air strike in western Iraq in March. The report said it was initially thought he was not going to survive. Reports in May 2015<\/strong> said the leader remained incapacitated<\/strong><\/span>. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It is thought Baghdadi (real name believed to be Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai) was born in Samarra, north of Baghdad, in 1971 and joined the insurgency that erupted in Iraq soon after the 2003 US-led invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

He emerged as the leader of AQI (al-Qaeda in Iraq) in 2010, after its former leaders were killed in an attack by US and Iraqi troops.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013, al-Baghdadi released an audio statement in which he announced that AQI and Jabhat al-Nusra terror groups were officially merging under the name “Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham” aka Islamic State or Isis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baghdadi has the reputation of a highly organised and ruthless battlefield tactician who rarely appears in the media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under his command, Isis has released several videos and statements claiming responsibility for deadly attacks that have killed thousands of people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reminder that Trump’s claim that U.S. forces had killed al-Baghdadi is just the latest in a string of reports the he had been killed or wounded over the years<\/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":[34,95,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_war_on_terror","category-beheadings-by-muslim-militants","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197020","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=197020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197031,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197020\/revisions\/197031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}