Will al-Baghdadi show up next? Reports of these jihadis’ deaths all too often cannot be trusted; here is another example of why.
“How Ukraine became the unlikely home for Isis leaders escaping the caliphate,” by Oliver Carroll, Independent, November 22, 2019:
As far as extreme terror went, Al Bara Shishani had a reputation.
Understood to have held the post of Isis’ deputy minister of war, head of a unit responsible for “special operations” and surveillance, the Georgian-born commander reportedly had a hand in it all: executions of “non-believers”; public beheadings; terror operations abroad.
He also had a reputation for being dead – that is, until last Friday.
Al Bara Shishani’s dramatic reappearance in the dock of a court room in central Kiev was shocking not only for the fact of how alive he was.
As details emerged about his miraculous resurrection – how he dodged what had been reported as a fatal air strike in Syria, then used a fake passport to travel to Turkey and Ukraine, where he would live untroubled for two years – a number of questions came begging about Kiev’s capacity and willingness to deal with terrorists taking shelter within….