Posted on 04/02/2019 2:08:20 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
The ISIS territorial caliphate may have crumbled, but the terror group's heart beats on for at least as long as its illusory leader evades capture or death and Iraqi intelligence officials insist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 47, is alive and in hiding.
The latest information is that he is still in the Syrian desert, and could not enter into the Iraqi side because of concerns about evading the security measures on the borders, Sabah al Namaan, Baghdads spokesperson for the counterterrorism agency, told Fox News, stressing that finding the shadowy figure remains of critical importance..
Namaan said efforts are still underway to track down Baghdadi.
Killing him or arresting him will reveal many secrets about how they have recruited tens of thousands of young men, and it will create a gap in the organization, he continued. Hopefully we will reach him very soon, especially now that ISIS has been defeated in its final place in Baghouz, Syria and they have lost all their land in Iraq. Now, we have a real opportunity to catch or kill him.
Hamid al-Hayes, the head of the al-Anbar Salvation Council which operates as a collective for tribal militia groups also echoed in a statement last week that Baghdadi was in Syria, close to the Iraqi border and that he has shaved his beard and changed a large part of his features [so as] not to be identified and arrested.
Hisham al Hashimi, a member of the National Reconciliation Commission and a researcher in extremism and terrorism affairs in Iraq, who advises Baghdad and several foreign governments on terrorist activity, said the latest security analysis has pinpointed Baghdadi in three possible locations. Two of those are in the arid Syrian wasteland Tadmur or Homs desert and the third is just over the border, on the Iraq side.
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Send him straight to Hell.
With something this Evil, it is hard to end it.
I don’t think he’ll beat Mullah Omar’s record.
So baghdaddy is in iraq.
Why doesn’t he just present himself at an Iraqi border checkpoint and explain that he has a credible fear of staying in Syria?
Something this evil is very hard to end.
Satan protects some of them. Eventually someone sends him where he belongs.
Why can’t they get John McCains old cell phone, get the number off of it and track him that way?”?
We’ll keep an eye out for him........................
John knew lots of Jihadi’s.
That would only work at our border. If only he could get to California he could get sanctuary from the evil Trump regime.
Turkey?
Pokiestan?
Could be either, or he may still be in Region. I doubt there is much we can do to track him once he goes into stealth mode.
For heavens’ sake, he’s with Elvis. Sheesh.
I hope he is in a much warmer place than Elvis.
Go look in Germany, Sweden, or London.
Probably not. But plenty of ISIS there.
The Caliphate did not crumble. It is now called Turkey!
That pig romancer has been killed several times:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi#Reports_of_death,_bodily_harm,_and_arrest
My bet he is living in a palace in Turkey.
Put a million dollar price tag on his dead body... $300,000 to the ‘killer’ and the other $700,000 to be split equally between all people living within one square mile of where he was murdered.
That is a very powerful incentive.
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