Text messages from Mosul reveal startling information about the conditions of the city and the actions of al-Baghdadi

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A few weeks ago, someone started inside Mosul by sending text messages to Iraqi military intelligence in Baghdad. The letter said that by early this month , a secret informant inside the city in contact with the organization albeit not a member of it - from Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi , head of the Islamic state: " It has become taut nerves."

The letter added that al - Baghdadi "tempered his movements, and neglected appearance, even elegance Baghdadi changed. was very interested in its appearance, but it is no longer the case. " It continued: " Long live underground, and has tunnels extend to other areas, nor sleep without his explosive belt; so he can use it if he was arrested."

The text message seen by Reuters one of several letters describing what is happening inside the Islamic state, at a time began when the Iraqi and Kurdish and US forces campaign to recover the city of Mosul, a stronghold of the organization, in northern Iraq.

The paint those letters and interviews with senior Kurdish officials and fighters of the organization, signed in captivity recently, a detailed picture of the unusual for the group, and the state of mind of the leader, in what may be the last stand for them in Iraq.

It describes the messages that the group and its leader continue to enjoy the ability to lethality, and Eetmllekema at the same time a growing feeling of mistrust.

The messages that the execution of those who try to flee or become informants happens regularly. And it became al - Baghdadi , who fancied himself Khalifa over a wide area of Iraq and Syria before Aamin- suspicious particularly those who around him.

According to one of the messages: "Frankly Baghdadi behavior is very suspicious, and doubted the people closest to him. Was formerly Amazhna, but today is not joking anyone. "

And was able to Reuters verify the identity of the informant , which correspond with the Iraqi military intelligence, but she could not be sure of the independent sources of the authenticity of the information contained in his letters.

But the picture that emerges messages consistent with the intelligence, relied upon by the two Kurdish officials, namely: delighted Barzani President of the Security Council of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Lahore Talabani , head of counter - terrorism operations and director of the intelligence agency region.

Talabani said the heads of the other intelligence agencies that the military alliance is making slow progress, though steady, in the face of state regulation.

They said the alliance enormous potential into the connector, including detectives trained, and some residents who carry out surveillance operations more simply by sending text messages or over the phone from the outskirts of the city. Some informants families in Kurdistan drive her KRG money.

The Kurds believe that a military attack on Mosul , who began in October / 17 October to feed the sense of fear and distrust with the regulation.

They said that the acquisition of the idea of eliminating all those who might betray the group may contribute to the term short stimulate fighters to defend Mosul. But this acquisition also means that the group Anglguet itself at a time when it is facing the most serious threat to its existence in Iraq since the control of about a third of Iraqi territory in the summer of 2014.

He said Karim Singari, Interior Minister and Acting Minister of Defence under the control of the Kurds in northern Iraq 's Kurdistan region, the number of executions is a clear sign that the organization is starting to feel the pinch of pressure. he
also said that many of the local Iraqi fighters in the ranks of organized forces lacking what the jihadists of strong faith martyrdom.

He Singari: "most of the suicide bombers who fight to the death are foreign fighters, but their number on the fronts lower than the previous; because they are being killed in the fighting and in suicide operations. "

Barzani said that the distrust growing pay - Baghdadi and his top commanders to frequent movement, which negatively affects another on the ability of the organization to defend the city.

Barzani said that al - Baghdadi , " uses both methods different to hide and protect himself, Wegger positions and uses different means to navigate, and live in different locations, and uses different means of communication. "

Kurdish officials said that if he took out an Islamic state military alliance of Mosul , it is likely that the group resorted to Syria, where he will be a constant threat to Iraq through repeated suicide attacks and other guerrilla tactics.

The risk of a slide phone
was always suspicion characteristic of state regulation attributes. The rule of the organization in Syria and Iraq have been adopted in large part on a vast network of intelligence that everyone from children used to the former Baathist officers who have acquired combat expertise to spy on citizens of organization and responsibility.

This seems to be distrust reached new levels with the progress of the enemies of the organization; the growing feeling mistrust before the government forces begin siege of Mosul in mid - October / October.

residents in Mosul, Iraqi security officials said the group 's leaders revealed early last month an internal conspiracy against the al - Baghdadi. It was the conspiracy hatched by one of the prominent leaders in the organization of the state when a security official in the organization found on a slide phone included conspirators names of frustration, and showed links to officers in the American and Kurdish intelligence.

Residents said Iraqi officials that the punishment was brutal; the organization executed 58 people held suspicions about their involvement in the plot, and then placing them in cages and dumped.
, said officers in the Iraqi intelligence service that the organization executed since then 42 other people from the local tribes after they were caught with their phones slices.

Residents in areas under the control of the regulatory regions that owning a slice phone now , or any means of electronic communication other means an automatic death sentence. The organization has set up security checkpoints where gunmen are looking for people, and regularly raid the areas bombed by US air strikes; because regulatory officials assume that the locals had helped in setting goals.

Aware of the informant who sent text messages from Mosul those risks. Was one of the messages recently began by saying: "I speak with you on the surface, now the planes in the sky .. Once revealed until canceled text messages and hide the phone segment."

"Cubs caliphate"
supports state regulation on a network of informants children often imprecisely called "cubs succession."

Hisham al - Hashimi of the Iraqi government adviser said, an expert in regulatory affairs: "These boys cubs succession listening and collecting information from the other children from their parents and their brothers and their movements. In every street there are one or two of those who are spying on the adults. "

He says Lahore Talabani, who leads the fight against terrorism in the Kurdistan Regional Government, said that the huge network of informers also detrimental to the organization of the state. And the large amount of information contained community devoted much of their energy to those who are subject to the rule rather than enemies, and this is what feeds the sense of mistrust in turn.

He said Talabani, he told Reuters: "conspiracies (internal) Baghdadi frequent, and we are witnessing events of this kind almost every week, and they spend on their men . "

He added that until a few months ago it was a secret agent in the inner circle of al - Baghdadi , leader of the work in the organization, and he belonged by al - Qaeda. He continued , using a common organization name: " It was a Kurd, was born in Hawija, and was one of the detainees have. Released him a year before the arrival of Daesh."

After the fall of Mosul in the hands of the organization, the infiltration of the leader who became an agent in its ranks, and became a military officer. And began posing feeds Kurds "daily with valuable information."

Said client to Talabani said al - Baghdadi , consult with his top aides, including Saudis, he said they were from Almtvgahan in Islamic law. The Saudi Arabia has announced the presence of nationals of Saudis in the ranks of the organization.

Talabani said: "I have been informed that al - Baghdadi , his prestige and his contacts, but it is the interface, and committees around him to take major decisions even on the military level."

He added that the client told him that he had met al - Baghdadi , a few times, and that he was planning to assassinate the leader of the organization. However , the organization discovered that the client before they can act, and Talabani said that the organization publicly executed a few months ago.

Slaughter in a rare encounter, recounted two state regulation fighters signed in captivity last week 's brutal methods used by the organization.

Has met with Reuters in the Kurdish Balatnin compound to combat terrorism in the city of Sulaymaniyah. An official from the Kurdish intelligence and attended the officer questioned the interviews, but they did not any say.

Signed a Qahtan (21 years) in captivity after five Kurdish guerrillas had been killed in a police station, fell into the hands of men of the organization in the northern city of Hawija.

Qahtan said the march towards extremism began at the age of thirteen; it has become a member of al - Qaida, then joined the state regulation when accompanied by a friend to attend religious lessons and to participate in military training at a mosque Bahoijh.

His training included learning to use machine guns and pistols, as the trainees learn how to slaughter people using a knife gun, Kalashnikov .

Qahtan said the prince locally ordered a year ago to cut the throats of five Kurdish fighters. He added that the prince remained standing behind him a lead that task.

He said: "slaughtered five people placidly Kalashnikov. What you feel something. Then I came back to the house, and cleaned myself, and then I sat down for dinner with my family."

He added Qahtan it is no longer one of its fighters speaks for control of Baghdad, but they are focusing on only the connector and how to recruit more fighters to defend it.

He said the detainee second Bakr Salah al - Bakr , 21, who was captured as he prepares to carry out a suicide attack in Kurdistan, said the organization initially tried to recruit him through Facebook to participate in the fighting in Mosul.
He pointed out that the organization in dire need of Iraqi fighters; because the torrent of foreign fighters cut off after Turkey closed its border a year ago gradually.

The battle says intelligence officials Iraqis they believe that al - Baghdadi is not in Mosul, but in the district of Al - Baaj, a nomadic area on the outskirts of Nineveh province bordering Syria. The number of Baaj population of about 20 thousand people, and is dominated by fighters loyal to the organization of the state.

The area is immune to large fortified, and the long tunnels built after the fall of Saddam Hussein , when the town became the starting point for the smuggling of weapons and volunteers from Syria to Iraq points.

Talabani said that even if the fallen Mosul and al - Baghdadi, it is likely to continue activity regulation. He added: "return back to the methods of unconventional warfare, and we will see suicide bombings inside the Kurdistan region and inside Iraq 's cities and others."

It was agreed Barzani with his opinion, he said: " The war on the Islamic state would be a long war. Not on the military level alone, but on levels economic and ideological. "

He estimated Barzani, son of the veteran Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani , president of the province, that the number of suicide bombers who promise them the organization in Iraq and Syria is about ten thousand. He said the organization is equipped waves of fighters based at present deployed for the defense of Mosul.

He said: " You see the first group up to the front line, knowing that the fate of murder by aircraft flying overhead, but they come though. Then the second group come to the place the same which the others beaten.

"see body parts and corpses all over the place, and they know they will die, however they come, they see the victory in the dying for their cause."

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