Posted on 10/28/2019 1:34:22 AM PDT by be-baw
Back-to-back U.S. operations Saturday and Sunday have resulted in the deaths of Islamic State militant group (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and spokesperson Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir in Syria, but the organization has already designated a successor, Newsweek has learned.
Abdullah Qardash, sometimes spelled Kardesh and also known as Hajji Abdullah al-Afari, was said to have been nominated by Baghdadi in August to run the group's "Muslim affairs" in a widely-circulated statement attributed to ISIS' official Amaq news outlet, but never publicly endorsed by the group. Though little is known about the former Iraqi military officer who once served under late leader Saddam Hussein, one regional intelligence official asking not to be identified by name or nation told Newsweek that Qardash would have taken over Baghdadi's rolethough it had lost much of its significance by the time of his demise.
Baghdadi, who died after detonating a suicide vest following a Delta Team operation first reported by Newsweek, built ISIS' self-styled caliphate out of Al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch, but the official said that the influential hard-line cleric's role had become largely symbolic.
"Baghdadi was a figurehead. He was not involved in operations or day-to-day," the official told Newsweek. "All Baghdadi did was say yes or nono planning."
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Yeah, the devil never runs out of replacements.
Blame your predecessor...
I think its time for successor to prepare his envelopes:)
That’s what they’re going to use to try and minimize a huge victory by our forces and president Trump? Just imagine how fast they would bury that info it it were a democrat president. ANY democrat.
These people are beyond pathetic aren’t they?
Baghdadi took the leadership position when two other guys were killed a decade ago.
This fake news is newsweak newsspeak.
Well said and so true.
He had a spokesman (at a separate location) who also died this weekend.
That’s why you have to keep on killing them. Hunt down and kill terorists wherever you find them.
He has something to anticipate now. There was a reason President Trump detailed Bagdaddys gruesome and cowardly suicide.
Nice spin. I wondered how they’d do it. The trouble is that our minds aren’t deceitful in default mode, and theirs are. It’s easy for them. I’m not saying that it’s Satan, but it’s Satan.
Maybe ten of us can chip in a dime, buy the rag, and re-name it FReep News.
“I bet they loved Hitler and Stalin.”
I think I read yesterday that the CA chick who just resigned from Congress — the throuple one — had a swastika tattoo down by her hoo-ha.
They are already trying to downplay the significance of Trump’s win.
The hate they have for him is beyond comprehension.
Yep. Ive never seen anything like this.
The Washington Compost Islamic Scholar Slain was amazing.
I guess their headline for Hitlers death was Dynamic Public Speaker and noted Community Organizer
HATE for Trump and other political views takes precedent over anything good for the nation. Modern democrat party in a nutshell.
Yeah I’d be like ####!!! :)
He won’t sleep well again.
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