The caliph has been killed every year since 2014, including this year. Yet he has a new audio clip.
URGENT: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi allegedly killed by US airstrikes September 6, 2014
Radio Iran: Islamic State’s caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead of injuries from airstrike Pentagon denies hit him April 27, 2015
Is the Islamic State’s caliph al-Baghdadi dead (again)? June 17, 2016
Islamic State caliph al-Baghdadi is dead (again) June 11, 2017
“Islamic State releases purported audio clip of leader Baghdadi,” Middle East Eye, September 28, 2017:
The Islamic State (IS) group released an audio recording on Thursday of what it said was its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi calling on members under pressure in Syria and Iraq to “resist” their enemies.
“The leaders of the Islamic State and its soldiers have realised that the path to… victory is to be patient and resist the infidels whatever their alliances,” said the person heard in the recording.
It was not clear when the message, released by the IS-affiliated al-Furqan media group, was recorded.
In it, the apparent IS leader lashed out at “infidel nations headed by America, Russia and Iran” who, along with their allies, have inflicted losses on the jihadists during separate anti-IS offensives against IS in Syria and Iraq.
Thursday’s was the first audio message said to be of Baghdadi since November 2016, when he spoke in a defiant tone in urging his supporters to defend the city of Mosul against a massive operation by Iraqi forces.
That recording, also released by al-Furqan, was a rare sign of life from Baghdadi.
The fall of Mosul in July effectively marked the end of the Iraqi half of Baghdadi’s “caliphate” even though IS continues to fight in some territory outside of Mosul, the largest city they came to control in both Iraq and Syria.
An IS branch in Libya was also defeated last year in the city of Sirte, where they had set up a North African beachhead in 2014. In Egypt’s northern Sinai, another affiliated militant group is still fighting Egyptian military forces.
“With God’s will and his strength, we are staying determined, patient…The abundance of killing will not stop us,” Baghdadi said in the audio recording.
Baghdadi’s whereabouts is unknown and he is considered to be in hiding following the fall of Mosul and the near-total capture of Raqqa, IS’s main city in Syria, by the US-backed Arab and Kurdish forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces.Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces told Middle East Eye that many IS militants had fled to the Syrian city of Mayadin which is alleged to be IS’s new capital.
“The big place for Daesh now is the city of Mayadin,” an SDF fighter said.
“It’s the new capital of the caliphate, and I think that will be the hardest part and the last stand. I don’t know if we will go to battle, or the Syrian government will, but I hope we will go and finish off Daesh 100 percent.”…
gravenimage says
Islamic State releases audio clip of caliph al-Baghdadi, who has been reported dead at least four times
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He’s like one of those monsters in a horror series who killed at the end of every film, but always comes back…
No accident that Islam should remind us of horror movies…
Anti-jihad says
Maybe he’s like a vampire and if someone can just drive a wooden stake through his heart, he will be dead once and for all.
gravenimage says
I think that would do the trick…
manat bint allaha says
dead man walking.
mortimer says
NEVER FORGET THE WORDS OF Caliph of All Islam, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi:
“Islam was NEVER A RELIGION OF PEACE. Islam is the RELIGION OF FIGHTING*.”
As quoted in “Islamic State releases ‘al-Baghdadi message’”, BBC (14 May 2015) (*Arabic “q-t-l” = fight to the death)
If al Baghdadi is alive, he will probably be in Pakistan.
mortimer says
Caliph al Baghdadi is one of the BEST INFORMED scholars of Islam in the world. He has mastered most of Islamic literature and is a walking authority and encyclopedia of Islam. ISIS uses the best and most authentic Islamic doctrine in applying the use of force and when applying Sharia law.
Jack Diamond says
The one time I’m for destroying a library.
mortimer says
Deprogramming Muslims and dhimmis by the use of documentary films is a better idea.
Jack Diamond says
Well, that’s worked well so far. You recommend the Ludovico Technique?
You think if Muslims only knew what you knew, they would leave Islam in deep remorse? What makes you think they do not know what you know? Another one of your polls?
Georg says
What a dope to have declared a caliphate. Yet again, the Muslim claim of divine preference is rather discordant with facts on the ground. The “caliph” hides in and scurries between one rat hole after another wondering if it will be an Apache, laser-guided bomb, or drone strike. Maybe a bereaved Yazidi woman will poison him a la Baghdadi’s master.
jewdog says
He has been killed several times, but the Devil always comes back. Anyone have a wooden stake?
Walter Sieruk says
That jihadists as for example that thug and chief of ISIS, Abu al Baghdadi, was always scheming against the State of Israel. Nevertheless, all of his effort will come nothing in the end. The reason that all his plots and striving are all fated fail is because he is greatly overruled by the God of the Bible Who is the Supreme and Ultimate supporter of Israel. As reflected in the following verses of the Bible. “A man’s heart may be full of schemes, but the Lord‘s purpose will prevail.” Proverbs 19:21. [N.E.B.] Also, Psalm 135:4. This informs the reader that “The Lord has chosen Jacob to be His own and Israel His special treasure.”
Walter Sieruk says
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.]
Alien Republican says
He could have recorded a 100 messages and instructed to release them post-morten. Not hard to come up with boiler plate speeches for different scenarios.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Monty Python’s “Mary Queen of Scots” sketch
“She’s Dead – No, I’m not!”
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The good Caliph, holding a PhD in divinity and holiness, is apparently immortal with his limitless knowledge of what makes humans behave.. Much the same for Islam, with its limitless knowledge of what makes world history behave.
Sarah says
In all seriousness, does it really matter if this creature dies?
He’s just another Muslim. If he is dead, one of the innumerable others can fill his place. Killing him won’t stop the ideology. If killing someone to stop the ideology was our preferred choice of action – then we better get cracking on building a time machine, so we can go back in time and chop Mohammed to bits before he dreams up this stupid cult to begin with.
I know that All Baghdadi has some specific bloodline claim to be able to create a caliphate, something to do with him being Arab scum, I’m not too well versed on the direct details – but that still doesn’t stop one from a cast of hundreds of millions of stepping into his shoes, should someone actually manage to blow the coward up.
I don’t care about proof of life for him. I don’t care if he is alive or dead. As long as there is Islam, there will be monsters like him and his Muslim brothers and sisters who want to subjugate us and slaughter us.
underbed cat says
I have listened to video’s of the Son of Hamas many times, by the look of the faces of the other U.N. members…I wonder did they recognize him…he was very brave to
call them out on their methods of deception that would support Israel against the stacked deck of lies against Israel by Hamas and the rest of the followers of the religion of no peace, and no truth.
It still shocks me the amount of misinformation about the state of Israel…they need a commercial instead of Qatar, to show that Israel is not the root of terror nor the hateful government as ..they are so often accused of by the ummah, the global islamic world of 56 countries + Palestinian Hamas territory who honor those who attack Israel not just with rocks, have weapons and rockets and treaties mean nothing to honor.
Scott65clark@gmail.com says
He was also killed twice al al-quaida of iraq head leader.
Then something happened hillary john mccain and obuma pushed to arm the rebels in syria whos generals went on tv and said had al quaida in them and there u have the creation of isis funded by those guys.
Remember the doj dropped charges on an arms dealer linked to hillary during election stevens was assasinated i believe because of movement of arms through libya so isis was created by us funded by us for certain goals to take out bashir equalize iran hezbullah etc and to take out non radical regimes across the middle east why not enough space for me to explain.