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Islamic State chief appears in propaganda video for first time in five years, refers to Sri Lanka blasts and fight for Baghouz

Press Trust of India • April 30, 2019, 10:30:35 IST
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The Islamic State group’s elusive chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has purportedly appeared for the first time in five years in a propaganda video released on Monday by the jihadist organisation.

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Islamic State chief appears in propaganda video for first time in five years, refers to Sri Lanka blasts and fight for Baghouz

Baghdad: The Islamic State group’s elusive chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has purportedly appeared for the first time in five years in a propaganda video released on Monday by the jihadist organisation. It is unclear when the footage was filmed, but the man said to be Baghdadi referred to last week’s deadly attack in Sri Lanka and to the months-long fight for Islamic State’s final bastion Baghouz, which ended in March. [caption id=“attachment_6542361” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]This image made from video posted on a militant website on Monday, April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed. AP This image made from video posted on a militant website on Monday purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, being interviewed. AP[/caption] “The battle for Baghouz is over,” he said, sitting cross-legged on a cushion and addressing three men whose faces have been blurred. “God ordered us to wage ‘jihad.’ He did not order us to win,” he said. In a segment in which the man is not on camera, his voice referred to the 21 April Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, which killed 253 people and wounded nearly 500, as “vengeance for their brothers in Baghouz”. The man said to be Baghdadi insisted Islamic State’s operations against the West were part of a “long battle,” and that Islamic State would continue to “take revenge” on members who had been killed. “There will be more to come after this battle,” he said. The man in the video had a long grey beard that appeared dyed with henna and spoke slowly, often pausing for several seconds in the middle of his sentences. He was identified as Baghdadi by both the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks Islamic State, and Hisham al-Hashemi, an Iraqi expert on the group. Baghdadi, who is now 47, appeared for the first and last time in public in Mosul in 2014, where he declared an Islamic “caliphate” in the swathes of territory the terror outfit then held in Syria and Iraq. He was reported killed or injured multiple times since then. His last voice recording to his supporters was released in August, eight months after Iraq announced it had defeated IS and as the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces closed in next door in Syria. The SDF at the time said it did not believe Baghdadi was in Syria.

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