{"id":197232,"date":"2019-11-01T08:33:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T08:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197232"},"modified":"2019-11-06T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T06:06:36","slug":"americans-will-respawn-al-baghdadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197232","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Americans will RESPAWN al-Baghdadi\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assad casts doubt on ISIS leader\u2019s death, draws parallels with Bin Laden\u2019s killing<\/h3>\n

RT \u2013 Oct 31, 2019<\/h1>\n
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President Assad. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Take any words from US politicians with a grain of salt, Syria\u2019s Bashar Assad has urged, as he cast doubt on the story of the Islamic State leader being killed in US a raid, and compared it to the shady killing of Osama Bin Laden.<\/span><\/p>\n

The widely publicized US special forces raid that allegedly killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL) terrorist group, left more questions than answers and it should not be taken at the face value, the Syrian President cautioned, during a lengthy interview with state media on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Damascus did not participate in the raid by any means, Assad stated, adding that he’d learned about the claim only through media reports. Adding imaginary participants into the operation is likely supposed to give it credibility, he added, while countries on such a list would likely be flattered to be a \u201cpart of a \u2018great\u2019 operation.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We do not need such credit. We are the ones fighting terrorism.\u00a0\u00a0We have no relations and have had no contact with any American institutions.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s loud praise of its own actions, a picture of the \u2018hero dog\u2019 that took part in the raid and footage purportedly of the aerial strikes have not convinced Assad if it \u201cactually took place or not.\u201d<\/em> Moreover, he thought the whole affair suspiciously resembled the 2011 killing of another notorious terrorist \u2013 Al Qaeda\u2019s head Osama Bin Laden.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy were the remains of Baghdadi not shown? This is the same scenario that was followed with Bin Laden. If they are going to use different pretexts in order not to show the remains, let us recall how [former Iraqi] President Saddam Hussein was captured and how the whole operation was shown from A to Z; they showed pictures and video clips after they captured him.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The killing of Saddam\u2019s sons was also well-documented and widely publicized, Assad went on to add, suggesting that the Americans \u201chide everything\u201d<\/em> about both the killing of bin Laden and that of al-Baghdadi for a reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is part of the tricks played by the Americans. That is why we should not believe everything they say unless they come up with evidence. American politicians are actually guilty until proven innocent, not the other way around.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

All in all, it\u2019s unlikely that death of the IS leader \u2013 if he really was killed \u2013 and even the ultimate destruction of the terrorist group would change anything, Assad said. The root of the problem \u2013 the Wahhabi ideology that is \u201cmore than two centuries old\u201d<\/em> would not disappear at once. The radical Islamist thought and al-Baghdadi were merely US tools all along, Assad claimed, adding that those tools could easily be re-purposed elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI believe the whole thing regarding this operation is a trick. Baghdadi will be recreated under a different name, a different individual, or ISIS in its entirety might be reproduced as needed under a different name but with the same thought and the same purpose. The director of the whole scenario is the same, the Americans.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Syrian leader says: “this operation is a trick. Baghdadi will be recreated under a different name, a different individual, or ISIS in its entirety might be reproduced”<\/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":[61,95,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-beheadings-by-muslim-militants","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197232","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=197232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197234,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197232\/revisions\/197234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}