[Brown Deer]

Did John McCain Meet with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Alleged Head of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh)?

[LucyT]

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Did John McCain Meet with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Alleged Head of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh)?

Check out # 86, w link, photos.

Thanks, Brown Deer.

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Not everyone agrees that is al-Baghdadi in the picture with McCain.

The prison pictures were taken in 2004. The McCain pictures were taken in 2013 (nine years later), and the supposed al-Baghdadi in the McCain photo is younger-looking than the man in the prison pictures. Most of us look older as we get older. Looking younger almost a decade later is a neat trick.

The more recent pictures of Baghdadi show a man substantially older than the 2013 photo. He couldn't have aged so much in 6 years. The recent photos are more consistent with the Baghdadi in the 2004 photo.

The 2013 photos aren't as clear as the others, but I certainly see a different person - not al-Baghdadi - in them. For one thing, the nose is very different.