"Islamic State" top leader makes first public appearance in Iraq in on-line video
I watched the video on CNN about 1/2 hour ago. It reminded me of someone at the Taj Mahal dressed up in black with a turban that reminded me a lot of an Ayatollah kind of person from 1980 talking at some place Muslim looking like the Taj Mahal. Unfortunately, I could see Muslim idealistic young men being inspired to join him from this presentation.
The real trick for the United States is as brutal as this man has been he also is brilliant with a PHD in Islam. So, he has organizational abilities and wants to be the Caliph which Osama bin Laden never wanted for himself. This is someone 100s and thousands of times more dangerous to the western world than Osama bin Laden ever was. Because if enough Sunnis recognize him as the Caliph (successor to Muhammad) then this state may stay in existence no matter what the western world does. We will have to see where this all goes.
If Iran assassinates him we are sure now to have an all out war between Sunnis and Shias for years to come because he will become a Sunni Martyr then. The U.S. really has to be careful not to create terrorists coming here to the U.S. again because of the mishandling of this situation!
BAGHDAD,
July 5 (Xinhua) -- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the man purported to be the
top leader of the self-claimed "Islamic State, " made his first public
appearance at a mosque in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, according to a
video clip posted on the Internet on ...
BAGHDAD, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the man purported
to be the top leader of the self-claimed "Islamic State, " made his
first public appearance at a mosque in Iraq's northern city of Mosul,
according to a video clip posted on the Internet on Saturday.
The video appearance came a few days after the Islamic State in Iraq
and Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaida breakaway group, proclaimed the
establishment of a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, crowned its
leader Baghdadi as the "caliph," and changed its name into the "Islamic
State(IS)."
"I became your leader, though I am not the best of you, so if you see
me right, assist me. If you see me wrong, advise me and put me on the
right path, and obey me as long as I obey God with you," al-Baghdadi
said during the Friday weekly prayer, according to the video.
However, the authenticity of the 21-minute long video could not be verified immediately.
The IS demanded allegiance from all Muslims worldwide, said the
militant group spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani in an on-line video clip
released late last month.
The title of caliph means the successor of Prophet Mohammed, founder
of the Islam religion, while the caliphate is an attempt to revive the
system of Islamic religious ruling which ended about 100 years ago with
the fall of the Ottoman Empire during the World War I.
The hasty declaration of the founding of the "caliphate" is expected
to trigger a wave of infighting among the Sunni militant groups, which
formed a loose alliance in the blitzkrieg in the Sunni-dominated
provinces in Iraq.
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