The caliph was killed at least four times, every year between 2014 and 2017.
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
Now he is reportedly raising up a new generation of Muslims to believe that committing mass murder of Infidels will bring them blessings from Allah.
“New clues bolster belief that ISIS leader is still alive – and busy with a chilling new mission,” by Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, May 19, 2018:
His self-declared caliphate was in ruins when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi summoned some of his top aides to a meeting in eastern Syria last year. The Islamic State’s capital in Iraq had already fallen, and its Syrian headquarters was under siege.
Yet the terrorist leader had something else on his mind: schoolchildren.
The gathering near the city of Deir al-Zour was called by Baghdadi personally to discuss rewriting the terrorist group’s educational curriculum, according to an Islamic State official who was arrested in a joint operation by Turkish and Iraqi officials earlier this year. Despite the group’s dire circumstances, Baghdadi wanted to examine a subject that had less to do with immediate survival than with preserving the organization’s ideological core.
“Several top leaders were present, as well as the curricula committee, which I headed,” the captured officer, known as Abu Zaid al-Iraqi, said in a videotaped statement aired on Iraqi television.
The meeting, said to have occurred in mid-2017, was the third convening of a committee that had been a pet project of the man at the top, having been “established by caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” the officer said.
The incident provides a rare glimpse into the secluded life of the Islamic State’s leader, a man who has allowed himself to be photographed only once, in July 2014, and has spoken publicly only a handful of times since then. His prolonged absences have given wings to countless false reports portraying Baghdadi as either dead, or gravely wounded and incapacitated.
Despite such rumors, U.S. counterterrorism officials are convinced that Baghdadi is alive and is helping direct long-term strategy for the dwindling numbers of Islamic State fighters defending the group’s remaining strongholds in eastern Syria. The U.S. view is supported by intelligence intercepts and detainee interrogations, as well as writings and statements by operatives within the terrorist group’s network….
But the intercepts and reports also suggest that Baghdadi has shifted his attention in recent months to crafting an ideological framework that will survive the physical destruction of the caliphate in Iraq and Syria. In addition to his effort to revamp the group’s school curriculum, Baghdadi appears to have been behind a series of missives in recent months that sought to settle ideological disputes between factions of Islamic State fighters….
“The leadership is convinced that, even if the State has disappeared, as long as they can influence the next generation through education, the idea of the caliphate will endure,” said the operative, who agreed to an interview on the condition that his name not be revealed.
Under Baghdadi’s direction, “the values of the caliphate would be seeded in the Umma [Islamic community], and not disappear,” the operative said, “even if the caliphate would.”…
Thelastvirgingoat says
Praise Allah !! Jesus Christ was only resurrected once. This is proof that Allah is Greater!!
boakai ngombu says
i pray they you are being sarcastic
otherwise, you are displaying the utter depravity of you soul for you fail to recognize the LORD of All Living.
gravenimage says
Yes, he’s being sarcastic.
Linda says
This is like Osama bin Laden. He was reportedly dead about half a dozen times before Americans took him out once and for all. I’ll believe al Baghdadi is dead when the Americans say so.
Patrik Sternemark says
That bastard should be tortured for a few long weeks then hanged. He must go, that’s it and then search for every other bastard who has been in the ranks of these demons from hell!!
Sons of Liberty says
We had him LOCKED up in a cage in Iraq …but along came Barack Hussein Obama to LET HIM OUT in 2009 along with all his other evil henchmen. Just another gift from Obama …that keeps on giving …to the horror of all they come in contact with ……
Older Canadian says
Yes obama the great. Just one of his many achievements to bring peace upon the world.
Indiana Tom says
“The leadership is convinced that, even if the State has disappeared, as long as they can influence the next generation through education, the idea of the caliphate will endure,”
SSDD. This idea of the Caliphate Islamic State is old hat.
somehistory says
Saw this in the Wash. Post last night, commented on it on the account of the school in WV.
Dead or alive, his crew and other determined worshippers of a guy who may not have even lived, are after the children.
He’s alive, he’s dead, he’s alive….rather like Hollywood movies where the monster is seemingly indestructible, but the hero finally hits upon an idea that works and the monster is dead….but then, an eye still looks, or some other indication that the monster isn’t dead…or it left baby monsters to take its place.
It’s the same with baghdadi….but it doesn’t really matter because even if he’s dead…like the raper of children, mass murderer of the desert…their evil goes on with the beast and those who bow to it.
People, esp parents, should be aware of the danger to their children. satan wants them as his children. And he has a lot of adult-aged children working on the means to get them.
elee says
Squash this damned cockroach and his next million successors!
Oh and, in addition to your lives and everything you have, your children remain helal.
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.]
WildWelshWoman says
Your sentiments mirror my own. Islam’s god is Satan. He’s using those who are prone to violence and those who thrive on watching the blood flow from their victims’ wounds to carve a path to the Holy Land, where he will attempt to usurp the throne of God.
Anyone who has read the Bible should know and believe this because it’s right there, in black and white, our future.
Sons of Liberty says
I agree . We are called to spread the light of Jesus Christ in this dark and sinful world and to proclaim the Gospel ! I pray for the people who walk in the darkness of Islam that they may open their hearts and minds to the PEACE of the Lord Jesus Christ . Do not listen to the evil that comes from Abu Bakr Al Bagdadi , the Qur’an and Satan but turn to the LIGHT of Jesus Christ and HIS SALVATION !
Nicholas W Tesdorf says
You can’t keep a Good Caliph down it seems.