[CitizenM]

Reportedly Omar AL Baghdadi is a made up guy with a made up name...

I wondered about that name: AL Baghdadi...it sounded to close to the city name Baghdad be real and sort of silly. Baghdadi??? Is that a common last name in Baghdad? Who was/is he really?

[traderrob6]

See post # 24.

[gandalftb]

The name is made up, the person is real. I think his real name is Hamid Dawood Muhammad Khalil al-Zawi, from Haditha, and was an officer in the Amn al-'Aameh [General Security Directorate] under Saddam.

He calls himself Al Baghdadi as he had moved to Baghdad and supposedly fought there against our original invasion.