Experts are warning that al-Baghdadi's death will not necessarily spell an end to the violent extremists trying to reconstitute their caliphate.
about the Iraqi extremist who went from being held in a U.S. detention camp in the wake of the 2003 invasion to the top of the jihadist universe with barely a whisper of a backstory.
Baghdadi joined Iraq's insurgency in 2003. He was captured by the Americans, but not considered much of a threat, he was released about a year later.
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