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Abu Bakr al Baghdadi

ISIS Caliph al-Baghdadi Is Dead. Beware the Next Matryoshka Terrorist Leader…

Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 10:35 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

President Trump on Sunday announced that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive Islamic State leader, died during an American military operation in Syria, a major breakthrough more than five years after the militant launched the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. ‘Last night the United States brought the world’s Number One terrorist leader to justice,’ Trump said in a… Read more.

Groundhog-Day Killing of Yet Another Terrorist Leader? Please, Spare Us.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 7:07 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

It’s been a while since I felt constrained to pooh-pooh “Breaking News” about the killing of a “high-value” terrorist. But this I could not resist: The Islamic State’s spokesman and overseer of external terrorist operations, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, was killed in the Syrian province of Aleppo, the group’s news outlet reported on Tuesday… Accounts from… Read more.