Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi leaves behind a trail of ghastly crimes, internecine hatreds and the sad realization that he and his brand of bloodthirsty ISIS are an ongoing symptom of regional upheaval, and of what the internet can do to the isolated and deranged
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been all of these, and now -- after he was killed in a raid by US troops -- he leaves behind a trail of ghastly crimes, internecine hatreds and the sad realization that he and his brand of bloodthirsty, loathing ISIS are an ongoing symptom of regional upheaval and failure, and of what the Internet can do to the isolated and deranged.In its geographical scope, ISIS was the candle that burned twice as bright and burned half as long.
Kurds strike deal with Syrian government 03:03Read MoreTerritorially, ISIS fell as fast as they rose, yet now the world must deal with the menacing tail-end of their worldview: those remaining followers who dream up acts of often cowardly terror that will later be claimed by ISIS as one of their own. The ideology lives on, and its message is Baghdadi's hideous legacy on earth.
50 days. How the caliphate fell, and what's next for ISIS 03:40Jihadist websites and other sources suggest he was born in Diyala or Samarra in 1971 and went to the Islamic University in Baghdad, where he studied Islamic culture and jurisprudence to a Ph.D. level. The same jihadist biography gives his full name as"Ibrahim bin Awwad bin Ibrahim al-Badri al-Radhwi al-Husseini al-Samarrai.
ISIS leader may have appeared in first video in 5 years 02:22In 2018, as ISIS faced repeated defeats and growing pressure from all sides, the group released an audio recording of Baghdadi, in which he admitted his militants were losing the battle for their self-declared state. He described the situation as a test from Allah and urged fighters to stick together.
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