Posted on 11/14/2014 3:10:48 PM PST by marshmallow
In an audio message released on November 13, a man identified as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, pledged that his group will continue its conquests and vowed to bring jihad to Rome.
“The crusaders’ missiles will not stop our advance on Rome,” al-Baghdadi promised. He urged Muslims: “Make the volcanoes of jihad erupt everywhere.”
The mention of “crusaders’ missiles” was evidently a reference to reports that al-Baghdadi had been killed or at least seriously wounded by an American cruise-missile strike. The message from the Islamic State appeared designed to belie those reports.
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I’m sure he was still a bit dizzy from his recent trauma, and meant to say the Vatican, not just Rome. but the Vatican specifically.
Hey ISIS, set your sights lower... like the outhouse in the slums of Baghdad.
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