Ebu Bekir El Bağdadi kimdir? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Bruce Riedel

Bruce Riedel

Tem 13, 2014

A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the centre of Iraq's second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. There had previously been reports on social media that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would make his first public appearance since his Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) changed its name to the Islamic S

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Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his adviser Ayman al-Zawahiri, an
Egyptian linked to the al Qaeda network, during an interview with
Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by
the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. In the article, which
was published on Saturday in Karachi, bin Laden said he had nuclear and
chemical weapons and might use them in response to U.S. attacks. Mir
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An armed motorcade belonging to members of Derna's Islamic Youth Council, consisting of former members of militias from the town of Derna, drive along a road in Derna, eastern Libya October 3, 2014. The group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State on October 3, 2014 local media reported. Picture taken October 3, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR49BS8

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