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Reuters: Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has been killed

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T-Rex.

Banned
Great news if it's legit, but the fucker dies at least once a month so I'm inclined to call bullshit until more sources confirm it.
 
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eizarus

Banned
I hope the subsequent infighting for leadership ruins them beyond repair. Please don't be organised enough to move on to a new leader 🙏 Motherfuckers have done too much damage already.
 
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hohoXD123

Member
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/07/11/528120/Daesh-Baghdadi-death-Iraq


After its collapse in Mosul, Daesh has announced that the Takfiri terror group’s leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “has been killed,” a local source in Iraq’s Nineveh province says.

The local source told Iraq’s al-Sumaria news website Tuesday that Daesh announced the death of its leader in a brief statement released via the terrorist group’s media outlet in the center of Tal Afar city, situated 63 kilometers west of Mosul, without providing further details.

The source, who asked not to be named, added that the group said it would name a successor to Baghdadi soon.

Following the announcement, another local source revealed that an internal revolt and infighting had broken out within Daesh ranks in Tal Afar.

The source added that a wide-scale arrest campaign was launched against supporters of Baghdadi.

According to the report, a curfew was also declared in most of the city.

No Iraqi official has confirmed the report yet.

The report comes weeks after Russia said it was “highly likely” that the Daesh leader had been killed in an airstrike carried out by the Russian Air Force in Syria’s Raqqah city in May.
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Basically from a local source in Iraq who claims that ISIS made the announcement through their own media outlet. Would be wary until we get a more reliable confirmation of this.
 
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KingSnake

The Birthday Skeleton
ISIS will name a successor, so it's pretty much official. Unless you think there was a coup inside ISIS. In which case it would still be pretty much dead as a result of that.
 
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Bold One

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Dynomutt

Member
Confirmed, confirmed? Dude is like Murdock keeps coming back. If so this is good. Can we merc' the next 5 or so successors as well.
 
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kmax

Member
Seeing ISIS crumble like this makes me very happy.

However, let's not get too cocky at this stage. We certainly wouldn't want things to get worse.
 
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cameron

Member
Article is up. Reuters: Syrian Observatory says has 'confirmed information' that Islamic State chief killed
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed.

Russia's Defence Ministry said in June that it might have killed Baghdadi when one of its air strikes hit a gathering of Islamic State commanders on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Raqqa, but Washington said it could not corroborate the death and Western and Iraqi officials have been skeptical.

Reuters could not independently verify Baghdadi's death.

"(We have) confirmed information from leaders, including one of the first rank, in the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zor," the director of the British-based war monitoring group Rami Abdulrahman told Reuters.

Baghdadi's death had been announced many times before but the Observatory has a track record of credible reporting on Syria's civil war.

Abdulrahman said Observatory sources in Syria's eastern town of Deir al-Zor had been told by Islamic State sources that Baghdadi had died "but they did not specify when".
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Iraqi and Kurdish officials did not confirm his death. The U.S. Department of Defence said it had no immediate information corroborate Baghdadi's death.

Islamic State-affiliated websites and social media feeds have not carried any news regarding the leader's possible death.
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Kuroi Gogeta

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This is huge for de-radicalization efforts. The image of ISIS as an unstoppable force needs to be challenged. They're made up of individuals with no real strategy, no plans, no desire to work with other people, no respect for life or their own affiliates.
 
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Jinroh

Member
Kuroi Gogeta said:
They're made up of individuals with no real strategy, no plans, no desire to work with other people, no respect for life or their own affiliates.
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What? Without western intervention they would have probably conquered the whole of Iraq and Syria and thrive in failed states before taking them over.
 
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Chasm Skulker

Banned
Is this any more than a symbolic loss for ISIS? I always got the idea groups like them have a figurehead but that these guys don't coordinate actual strategy.
 
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SliceSabre

Banned
Chasm Skulker said:
Is this any more than a symbolic loss for ISIS? I always got the idea groups like them have a figurehead but that these guys don't coordinate actual strategy.
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Honestly it actually means little to nothing. I mean we kill leaders of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban all the time and they are operating just fine.
 
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