New Delhi:

The enigmatic chief of
Islamic State jihadist group Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi is dead, Radio Iran has
reported today.
Earlier, a Guardian report quoting
sources with inside knowledge of the
group reported that al-Baghdadi was
severely injured in a US-led coalition
air strike in March.
According to that report, al-Baghdadi
was inujred at al-Baaj district of
Nineveh, close to the Syrian border. It
also said he was making a slow
recovery and was out of his day-to-
day control of the jihadist group.
Al-Baghdadi, believed to be in his
40s, had a $10 million US bounty on
his head. Since taking the reins of the
Islamic State in 2010, he had
transformed it from a local branch of
al-Qaida into an independent
transnational military force,
positioning himself as perhaps the
pre-eminent figure in the global
jihadist community.
ISIS suffered a series of major
setbacks in the recent months with
many of its top commanders being
killed or severely injured.
Recently, a top Iraqi military
commander Lieutenant General Abdul
Amir al Shammari told Sky News that
his forces had killed "more than 250
terrorists in the past few days".
He said this had been achieved with
assistance from the Iraqi air force,
military helicopters and coalition air
strikes. "The coalition strikes provided
cover for our troops to push
forward."
Under the leadership of al-Baghdadi,
the Islamic State, which called itself as
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) earlier, had gained ground
across northern and western Iraq in a
lightning advance in June and July last
year, causing several of Iraq's army
and police divisions to fall into
disarray.
It had carried out thousands of public
executions using brutal methods and
implemented strict Islamic law in
areas they captured, which sent
shockwave across the global
community.

Straight To Virgin Island

Hmmm

Shekau remaining...

Cant wait for d reunion of d trio in wherever they are

Osama + Abu Bakr + Shekau =

Please let this be true

I hope so o and Amen to that

Hopefully this will be the birth of peace in the world..
Very soon other extremists will either be arrested or ended and we'll be able to sleep with our two eyes closed and with smiles on our faces

Good.

Sadly Another Al-bahagdi will replace him

Owoloku1:
Hopefully this will be the birth of peace in the world..
Very soon other extremists will either be arrested or ended and we'll be able to sleep with our two eyes closed and with smiles on our faces

The birth of peace is not in the killing of these 'extremist' but the killing of what makes them 'extremist'. There is no freedom for the muslims to practice their religion but there is freedom for Gay. Just go and look at what happened in Egypt- where a democratically elected government was mowed down in a military coup. The coup plotter instead of being sanctioned by the UN as it is surposed to be was allowed to conduct an election which made him president. He didn't stop at that; he excorsised the muslim brotherhood party killing and jailing its members while the whole world looked the other way.. What sort of injustice is that? If these people takes up arms now, they will starts saying that muslims are terrorists. If you are going to kill a muslim, kill him but not as a matter of his religious belief because he is not allowed to leave such injustice unqestioned. Note that i am not in any way supporting the killing of innocent civillians by any guise.