Al-Baghdadi has not even been seen in public since June 2014. In July 2014, he was reportedly seriously injured, and was said to have fled to Syria. In April 2015, he was reportedly seriously injured in an airstrike. The Iranians even said that he was dead. And now they’re claiming he was poisoned. Perhaps they, like the Pentagon, which is “investigating” this claim, have a vested interest in appearing to be more effective against the Islamic State than they really are.
In any case, Baghdadi may be dead for all anyone outside the Islamic State really knows. He is more potent as a symbol than as a reality.
“ISIS leader al-Baghdadi may have been poisoned,” by Jamie Schram, New York Post, October 3, 2016:
The Pentagon is investigating whether ISIS kingpin Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was poisoned during a lunchtime feast — causing him to fall seriously ill.
The ISIS leader and three commanders were eating in the small town of Be’aj, Iraq, when all four suffered “severe poisoning” and had to be “transferred to an unknown location under strict measures,” the Iraqi news agency WAA said.
The barbaric terror group, also known as ISIL and Daesh, has launched a full-scale investigation to find the culprits, according to WAA.
Pentagon spokesman and Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told The Post that he is “aware of the reports, but we have no information to corroborate [them].”
“Suffice it to say we always have great interest in the whereabouts and condition of the leader of ISIL,” Davis added when asked if the US military was looking into the matter.
Over recent years, Baghdadi has risen to the top of the extremist world, becoming the most feared jihadi leader since Osama bin Laden.
The US government has put a $7 million bounty on his head….
Meanwhile, Iraqi jets leveled a radio station used by the ISIS.
Broadcasting abruptly stopped on Sunday at the Al-Bayan radio station, NBC News reported.
The station was “one of the strongest” propaganda tools used by the terror group, a spokesman at Iraq’s Joint Operation Command told NBC.
“They used to broadcast Islamic anthems that encouraged people to join them,” the spokesman said.
The station encouraged listeners “to stand against the government and encouraged people to be terrorists under the name of jihad,” he added.

al norm says
Well he is following his hero, Mohammad, Hopefully it was one of the Yazidi women. He should have studied the Rachidun more carefully. Not many of them died from old age.
Custos Custodum says
David Wood has an amusing video about how Muhammad was poisoned and died.
ainu888 says
David Wood makes this grim business lighthearted.
ainu888 says
Rigorous and yet humorous.
gravenimage says
David Wood *rocks*.
linnte says
Thanks for the early morning laugh! How can we lose with people like Robert and David at the helm?
Allan says
Wow. That was more than just amusing. Watching and listening to it was like hearing the death knell of entire religion.
faraway says
Did you see how mohammed seemed to accuse himself of being a false prophet?He knew that he’d made up most the koran and being a narcissist,he didn’t care if islam continued after his death.I think he probably confessed to god in his last hours and became a christian.
Praeceptor Maximus says
You took the words right out of my mouth. Lol.
particolor says
I don’t think it was the Meatloaf he ate ??
I said ” Al- don’t eat the Curried Camel !! I don’t think its Curry ” 🙂
Angemon says
My thoughts exactly, al norm 🙂
Cecilia Ellis says
“Well he is following his hero, Mohammad,”
Al norm, you beat me to it.
gravenimage says
Just what I was thinking as well, guys.
Westman says
Let’s hope Kayla Meuller is waiting for the bastard with the equivalent of a stun gun before he is ushered to Hell.
Dom107 says
Yes but it took the original Mo three years to die.Lets hope today’s poisons are more effective !!!
Mirren10 says
I can’t think of any poison that takes 3 *years* to become lethal. Wasn’t mohammed in spanking health for three years after Khaybar ?
Far more likely to be Aisha, or someone else close to him, who was fed up to the back teeth with him. 🙂 I’m sure Agatha Christie would agree with me. 🙂
Rosewood11 says
Well then, he must not be the mahdi because he’s not supposed to be able to be harmed. Pitty!!! All those jihadi azzholes dying for the wrong guy. Didn’t they even off some of their own soldiers for becoming disabled by their wounds? Maybe they should help al-baghdadi go to allah!!!
al norm says
Just on a related issue. The Iraqi and coalition forces are getting ready for the battle of the trench mark 2: Mosul. So far the coalition has told us when (19th Oct), how big is the force, its make up, which battalion will do what and lots of other info. ISIS has said nothing.
Since when in warfare has it been necessary to tell the enemy all the facts. It is truly a bizarre world we are in at present. Considering this will cost a billion or so $, is there reward for each dead Jihadi? In my experience, with enough money , the local Arabs in Mosul will kill them and turn them over for the reward and no need for a siege. It would be cheap at $300,000 per dead Jihadi. That’s a lot of fulus! And the locals get it to rebuild.
Custos Custodum says
$300,000 seems about 10 times too high to pay the desert dwellers. 30,000 for a jihad bigwig, $20,000 for a Western citizen jihadi and $10,000 for a regular Arab jihadi seems about right.
billybob says
Most likely a disinformation campaign.
al norm says
One would think that. But the ‘coalition’ are not friends : Turkey, USA, Iran, Brits, French, Kurds. Most of whom hate each other. Not really a united front. So each one is giving a bit of information away to show their resolve.
Never forget the 2,300 – yes – Humvees ISIS capture from the last battle in Mosul as Iraqi forces ran away.
JIMJFOX says
Wonder how many of that 2300 are still running?
davej says
Probably just pneumonia.
Cecilia Ellis says
Oh, davej, that’s a good one! Taken from the Hillary book of excuses … Well done!
Custos Custodum says
Ha ha. Can he still walk onto a podium by himself? No doubt he is resting at his daughter’s apartment.
Jeff says
AIDS.
RickMT says
All these romantic idealistic ways this chump was supposed to go and you came up with the correct answer: “AIDS”, (butt from his prettiest male camel).
linnte says
Hahahahhahahah! WHAT? He didn’t get his pneumonia shot? Oh I bet Hillary did. Hahahahhahaahahahaha!
August West says
Isn’t it strange that Iran would claim that The Caliph died of poisoning?
Why would Iran attempt to make The Caliph more Mohammad like than he already is?
I don’t think Iran did this. Probably wishful thinking/hallucinations from the Obama administration.
Custos Custodum says
At this stage, the Iranians may actually be more credible than the Obama administration. For one thing, people in that part of the world have long memories and think beyond a time horizon of November 8, 2016.
mortimer says
Caliph Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, who is the ISIS chief and the caliph of the Islamic State, is apparently the first Islamic Studies PhD from a Muslim background who has no idea about Islam.
Al-Baghdadi, who has obtained BA, MA and PhD degrees in Islamic studies from the Islamic University in Baghdad, has been condemned as a person who knows nothing about Islam, and as the head of an organization that has nothing to do with Islam.
The professors from the Islamic University of Baghdad, however, do not agree. They taught the caliph and believe his credentials and doctrines are sound.
“If a person who has a PhD in Islamic studies and does nothing but study the Islamic scriptures knows nothing about Islam, then who does?” questioned al-Baghdadi’s main teacher from the Islamic University, preferring to remain anonymous since the fatwa against ISIS and its chief puts his reputation into jeopardy.
“The wine-sipping Muslims, those hedonistic adulterers will tell the world what true Islam is? Obama and Cameron know more about Islam than the faculty of Islamic studies at the Islamic University in Baghdad?” the professor bellowed with rage, while talking to a journalist.
Another professor who had taught al-Baghdadi in BA said off the record that the Isis caliph was an ardent student.
“He had this obsession with Islamic studies. I used to tell him to go out and have some fun sometimes. But his idea of fun wasn’t too human friendly,” the professor said. “In any case he was a top student. One of the best I’ve ever had. Had the entire syllabus on his finger tips – to be honest, he knew more about Islamic studies than most of the professors.”
“While you can question whether they are humans or not, there is no doubt that ISIS, including Abu Bakr (al Baghdadi), are indeed bona fide Muslims,” concluded the ISIS caliph’s PhD professor.
Caliph al Baghdadi has guaranteed that every torture, atrocity and crime against humanity is performed in complete conformity with strict Islamic teaching.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
But his idea of fun wasn’t too human friendly,” the professor said. “In any case he was a top student. One of the best I’ve ever had. Had the entire syllabus on his finger tips – to be honest, he knew more about Islamic studies than most of the professors.”
This is a Moslem who represents Islam realized in its fullest. Unfortunately, given the nature of his work, if he lives to a good age it’s unlikely he could take the traditional sinecure at Harvard, Yale, Columbia or Princeton. He’d have to rough it in the sand, in protective custody. Some will sacrifice all for a cause.
linnte says
Well said Mortimer, well said.
Matthieu Baudin says
It’s more important at this stage to weed out the fighters on the ground than to have Baghdadi dead. Hopefully the Syrian civil war is coming to an end, thereby removing an enormous number of these fanatical cut throats.
Jack Diamond says
Have they looked in Abbottabad? Detroit?
Apparently neither al-Baghdadi or Muhammad ever quite got the concept of having a food taster.
Islamic Fascist Political Death Cult says
Both were fools, so what does this say about their followers?
Dom107 says
Yes they should have used Merkel or Holland !!!!!
Islamic Fascist Political Death Cult says
Interesting this is the exact same way Muhammed was killed by poisoning his meal by a Jewish women whom Muhammed had butchered her entire family, Abu Bakkar Al Bagdadi too was poisoned like a goat ready for slaughter by his enemies which he must have many, poor bastard will never go to Paradise to get his 75 virgins, what total Bullshit virgins in heaven a Islamic Ferry Tale.
Pal says
“Cut the head off the snake first” – Arab proverb.
CrossWare says
That proverb must be created before Islam. It does not matter if the hefe is dying, Islam do not need a leader. They autonomous like cancer cells just following their primitive programming.
gravenimage says
That pretty much sums it up. The “Ummah” is a body that often doesn’t need a head–or just an interchangeable one…
mach37 says
My memory is not that great, but I think the first five or six caliphs after Muhammad died from being poisoned by whoever who became the next caliph. Maybe one of them was hacked to death by a sword? It’s time to read that book again, and take notes.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
There are indications that the Holy Prophet Mohammed himself met a painful death by poisoning, which is a happy thought. I bet his Companions were sick and tired of Him, even with all the pedophile sex and wealth they got carrying out His unrelenting Jihad mass murder attacks on Infidels.
gravenimage says
Muhammed and most of the first four “Rightly-Guided Caliphs” met violent ends, with the possible exception of Abu Bakr. This has been the fate of many if not most Caliphs, since Muslims believe that the only Islamic right of succession is through violent seizure. Even when sons have succeeded their fathers, they usually began their reigns by having their brothers and other rivals assassinated.
God, I hate Islam.
Jack Diamond says
In a little more gory detail—
Let’s take Caliph ‘Uthman, from Tabari v.xv, the first to be done in by fellow Muslims:
“Qutayrah al-Sakuni, Sudan b. Humran al-Sakuni, and al-Ghafiqi rose up and attacked [‘Uthman]. Al-Ghafiqi struck him with an iron tool he was carrying and kicked the Qur’an with his foot. The sacred text flew over, dropping into [‘Uthman’s] hands, and as blood flowed upon it, Sudan b. Humran came up to strike him, and Nailah bt. Alfarafisah bent over him and warded off the sword with her hand. He aimed at her and struck off her fingers. As she turned to flee, he fondled her hips and said, “How large her buttocks are!” Then he struck ‘Uthman and killed him. Some of ‘Uthman’s slaves entered alongside the rebels [‘qawm] to defend him. ‘Uthman had manumitted certain of them, and when they saw that Sudan had struck him, one of them fell on him and cut off his head. Qutayrah jumped on the slave and killed him. [The rebels] pillaged the house and drove out those who lived there. Then they locked the three dead men inside.
When they went out into the courtyard of the house, another of ‘Uthman’s slaves jumped on Qutayrah and killed him. The rebels coursed through the house taking everything they found, even what was on women. One man, named Kulthum b. Tujib.”
Another version: “Muhammad b. Abi Bakr,{half-brother of Muhammad’s favorite wife Aisha} accompanied by Kinanah b. Bishr b. ‘Attab, Sudan b. Humran and ‘Amr b. al-Hamiq, reached ‘Uthman by climbing over the wall from the house of ‘Amr b. Hazm… Muhammad pierced his forehead with a broad iron-tipped arrow that he was holding. Kinanah b. Bishr raised some arrows of the same kind that he was holding, and plunged them into the base of ‘Uthman’s ear down to his throat. Then he fell on him with his sword until he killed him
According to ‘Abd al-Rahman – Abu ‘Awn: Kinanah b. Bishr struck his forehead with an iron bar. He pitched forward, face down, and Sudan b. Humran al-Muradi bet him after he had fallen ad killed him.
… As to ‘Amr b.al-Hamiq, he jumped on ‘Uthman and sat on his chest – he was still barely alive – and stabbed him nine times. ‘Amr said, “I stabbed him three times for God’s sake and six times because of the anger in my breast against him.”
Note: killers and killed all were pious Muslims, for those who think Muslims killing fellow Muslims must have left the reservation. As for the aftermath of ‘Uthman’s murder:
“Aisha (Prophet Muhammad’s dearest wife), along with two of her brothers-in-laws, Talha and Zubayr set out to avenge ‘Uthman’s murder. When she reached al-Basrah, a rebel stronghold, she killed (by beheading) six hundred of the suspected rebels who ‘cannibalized’ Uthman. Ali, being sucked into the vortex of this cannibalistic cycle, set out to punish Aisha’s gang. The result: ten thousand Muslims, including Talhah and Zubayr lay perished in al-Basrah, equal in proportion from both sides. Aisha’s life was spared by the cannibals but her camel was hamstrung. In Islamic history this is known as the Battle of the Camel.”
Ali became Caliph.
“ibn Muljam bought a menacing sword, sharpened and poisoned it a little over a month and got ready to murder Ali. On the 17th day of Ramadan (the holiest month in the Islamic calendar), very early Friday morning, he, accompanied with another accomplice lay in darkness in the door of the mosque for the arrival of Ali to lead the morning-prayer. When Ali approached the door of the mosque, both the perpetrators stroke Ali with their swords. Ibn Mujlam’s accomplice’s sword missed Ali; he fled in panic. But ibn Muljam’s sword hit Ali right in his head. He was gravely injured, taken to his residence and on the Saturday night he died of acute poisoning of the wound.”
———-http://www.islam-watch.org/AbulKasem/cannibalizing_islam.htm
Note: Previously, Caliph Umar was stabbed to death by an assassin (a Persian). Abu Bakr died from an illness (in one version he caught a chill, in another his food was poisoned).
This is Islam in a bloody caliphinated nut shell.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The US government has put a $7 million bounty on his head…
This is a miserly amount when you consider that he could do a $100 billion in damage with a WMD attack, which in fact the good Caliph has promised to do. But, then again, what good would it do to off him. Another hairy leader would take over within the hour of the Caliph’s demise. Say goodbye to the old Caliph; say hello to the new Caliph.
Jenny H says
Maybe they would be able to find a replacement quickly, but he’d have to be a descendant of Mohammed, and be extremely knowledgeable about Islam, like Al Baghdadi, be a Sunni and probably have some other qualifications I don’t know about, wouldn’t he?
al norm says
Wear a big expensive watch on his right wrist and look good in black. There are plenty to take his place – as there always will be. The ‘Coalition’ would be better having a head price on each dead Jihadi. The Bedu and other Arabs would kill them in a trice for the dirhams ( Arabic saying: Dirahim Murahim; money heals all)
Baucent says
“Meanwhile, Iraqi jets leveled a radio station used by the ISIS”
What took them so long? Should have been a priority target a year ago.
duh swami says
“the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”…several times…
gravenimage says
Very true…
Florida Jim says
Islamic poisoning isn’t that an oxymoron? Iran will rule Islam unless the “moderates” awaken.
duh swami says
“moderates’ is a kugr invention…There are none because not one Muslim wants to explain what that means to Allah…
Walter Sieruk says
Well, if the caliph of the Islamic “state” had been severely ill from being poisoned and thus very sick if really matter very little if that Islamic fiend lives of dies . For he not only would he soon be replaced but also Al -Baghdadi is only puppet ruler and a figurehead as well as a stooge and a tool. Likewise whoever would replace Al Baghdadi will be only a puppet ruler, and a figurehead as well as a stooge and a tool.
As the following explains. About that brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS. Most people know that the head and chief of that is a man who goes by the name of al Baghdadi By contrast, what few people seem to know is that al Baghdadi is just a figurehead and a puppet rulers of ISIS. That the actual and real head and chief of that heinous and dangerous jihad organization is someone else. Who that “someone else” has been exposed in the book entitled THE ISIS CRISIS by Charles Dyer. For on page 166 the author explains that “The ultimate commander of ISIS remains unseen by most of his followers, but he is not unknown. This commander is Satan himself… Satan moves across the earth ‘like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.’ [First Peter 5:8.] Therefore, the vicious jihadist thugs who compose ISIS are, in realty, vicious, malicious and deluded fools who are being use by Satan, as his stooges and tools, to inflict demonic murderous harm on humankind. So must so that those violent wicked and insanely deluded jihad savages who make up ISIS are like those callous characters described in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:3. That teaches “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” In addition, those malice-filled fiendish jihadists of ISIS are so very bloodthirstily, ruinous dangerous and murderous that they are similar to, in character, the hideous villains described in the Bible. Which reads “Their feet are swift to shed blood: ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” Romans 3:15-17. [N.I.V.]
Les says
May he join Muhamned (piece of pig shit be upon him) in their paradise and the room next to Satan
Walter Sieruk says
That Islamic fiend Al- Baghdadi ,be he poisoned or not. is a wicked man who ,according to the Bible, might be demon possessed . If not, literally, demon possessed then at least demon influenced. Al Baghdadi with is Islamic “state” forces of militant of murderous evil is sin against God and an crime and affront against humankind. Al Baghdadi of other Muslim leaders such a he even have the gall to make the claim that one of his goals is to liberate people from s mam made laws and then replace those laws with Sharia law. That some heinously vile kind of liberation if there even was one.. Such an outrageous character as Al Baghdadi as other such as him are described in the Bible .Which reads “”While they promise liberty ,they themselves are servants of corruption…” Second Peter 2:19. [K.J.V.]
Manuele says
I AM SURE SATAN HAS JUST BEEN STANDING THERE PISSING ON HIS FREAKING HEAD. WHILE SAYING TO HIM, YOU ARE A MURDERED THOSE PEOPLE FOR NOTHING, YOU WORTHLESS SON OF A WHORE.