Mystery surrounds the fate of the leader of Daesh

February 14, 2017

BAGHDAD - The Baghdad on Monday, killing 13 of the leaders of the organization of the Islamic state in a raid by Iraqi fighter jets Saturday to a meeting of the organizing jihad, referring to the possibility that the organization's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the participants in the meeting counter but without immediately known whether He was injured in the raid or not.

The Joint Special Operations Command said in a statement that the jihadist organization's leaders were meeting in the district based in Anbar province (west) Saturday when Iraqi fighters were targeted, resulting in "the killing of 13 terrorist leaders Daesh."

The statement leading names of the dead did not name al-Baghdadi, the odometer, and the statement did not say whether the leader of the jihadist organization has been wounded in the raid or not.

According to the command, which coordinates the fight against the jihadists in Iraq, said the statement "intelligence cell monitored the movement of a convoy carrying al-Baghdadi of Raqqa region, the main stronghold of the jihadists in Syria, across the border into the Qaim area."

He added that "a convoy of three wheels type Land Cruisers moved on 09/02/2017 Reef tenderness and settled in Alsoieih area on the outskirts of Albu Kamal and the next day was the replacement truck wheels in Albu Kamal area."

"As there was a plane march run by (..) in charge of them, known as Abu Ammar, one of the Iraqi city of Samarra."

The statement stressed that "al-Obeidi, the convoy headed to the area and settled in what is called the Office of succession goes back to the so-called Abu Khalil al-Azzawi."

He added that he "was with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, known as Abu Abdullah al-Anbari (Abu Gardens narrator) responsible for the security file and six other leaders of the task."

The F -16 fighter jets bombed Iraq's place in the February 11 meeting, but the statement did not say whether al-Baghdadi present time of the bombing.

He stressed that "the meeting site targeting direct air strike that killed 13 terrorist leaders Daesh terrorist."

It was al-Baghdadi announced a "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria in June 2014.

The Iraqi army said dozens of militants to organize the Islamic state were killed as well as in other air strikes in the same region as part of the process.

The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, said last week in a television interview with "France 24" The Iraqi authorities have information on the whereabouts of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Ebadi said in response to a question whether he Baghdadi still exists in Mosul, Iraqi forces seized control of large parts of it over the past months, "I do not want disclosed for something like this. No specific information about the presence and where he is. "

And information that al-Baghdadi, said he left Iraq in the direction of Syria, where he dominated the jihadist organization on other tracts of land, Abadi said that "the most non-Iraqi fighters said they migrated and their families, fled Mosul since the (...) Baghdadi is their leader."

"The al-Baghdadi has more leaders who are with them," referring to the killing of a large number of military commanders, again to say: "We know and we know his movement surrounding the machine."

Battles Iraqi forces locked since October to regain control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq strongholds of the jihadists in the country and another. It has dominated the bulk of the city.

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