ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Sends Out New Audio Message – Threatens US Troops in Africa and Asia

[Synopsis]

13 minutes ago, Wiljor said:

Thanks once again for the updates my good friends tigergorzow and Yota, I hope soon this guy will be put out of his misery shortly.  

Good morning DV, a super week to you all 

Back atcha Wiljor! The weeks seem to be getting better lately with all the good news. Looks like things are winding up for the main act!

       

Go Moola Nova!

Edited March 6, 2017 by Synopsis
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[olivesman]

16 hours ago, SnowGlobe7 said:

oh hell yea....he was to chicken to kill himself......

no worries we can take care of that for ya.

Thanks yota...you are awesome!!!!

( ok whats up with the  beard??????)

She's a calico kitty?

[Wiljor]

5 minutes ago, Synopsis said:

Back atcha Wiljor! The weeks seem to be getting better lately with all the good news. Looks like things are winding up for the main act!

       

Go Moola Nova!

Yes indeed brother Synopsis, getting my front row ticket for the grand finale 

[Synopsis]

8 minutes ago, Wiljor said:

Yes indeed brother Synopsis, getting my front row ticket for the grand finale 

Yeah, Wiljor, too bad we can't pull back the curtain a little to see what is happening and see when the Grand Finale starts! 

Go Moola Nova!

[SnowGlobe7]

9 hours ago, olivesman said:

She's a calico kitty?

insult to calicos everywhere!!!

how the heck are ya olivesman????

[olivesman]

4 minutes ago, SnowGlobe7 said:

insult to calicos everywhere!!!

how the heck are ya olivesman????

I am GIDDY GOOD! 

Looking forward to meeting you SOON!

[SnowGlobe7]

you too my friend!!

getting crazy around here huh??!!

[olivesman]

 

[sandfly]

Take them out why they are running 

[yota691]

British general: Mosul on the verge of liberation

 

 

7/3/2017 0:00  Mosul / morning   confirmed Gen. Robert Jones, commander of British forces in the international coalition against "Daesh," that the majority of the leaders of the terrorist organization were killed, noting that "Mosul is about liberation," What will make the defeat of the terrorist gang in Iraq was "inevitable" .  Jones stressed in remarks on Monday that "terrorists surviving are up to 1,500 gunmen trapped in the western regions of Mosul." He said Jones, that " the so- called" Baghdadi "is the head of the terrorist gang and its leader , top, and to our knowledge , in the light of information received about him, he is still alive, but the vast majority of his aides were killed, and he knows very well that if they were to locate him, will end his life very quickly and will be the end of the previous premature. " And on the existence of a number of British recruits to organize "Daesh" in Iraq, Jones said: "Any British militants of the terrorist organization will be arrested in Mosul battles, they would be brought to justice to be punished, and that there is cooperation will be between the British and Iraqi governments in this regard."   The British leader also commented on the asylum "Daesh" to the use of drones to target civilians and military forces in Mosul , said: " The aircraft attacks from drones, although it is a serious threat, but it is a sign of desperation," he added , "they will not win the war by dropping a small hand grenades from the sky. "

[yota691]

TOP NEWS | Wed Mar 8, 2017 | 7:46am EST

Islamic State leader Baghdadi abandons Mosul fight to field commanders, U.S. and Iraqi sources say

 

 

FILE PHOTO - A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi marks what would have been his first public appearance, at a mosque in the centre of Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in...REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TV/File Photo.

 

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By Isabel Coles, John Walcott and Maher Chmaytelli | MOSUL, IRAQ/WASHINGTON

U.S. and Iraqi officials believe the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left operational commanders behind with diehard followers to fight the battle of Mosul, and is now hiding out in the desert, focusing mainly on his own survival.

It is impossible to confirm the whereabouts of the Islamic State "caliph", who declared himself the ruler of all Muslims from Mosul's Great Mosque after his forces swept through northern Iraq in 2014.

But U.S. and Iraqi intelligence sources say an absence of official communication from the group's leadership and the loss of territory in Mosul suggest he has abandoned the city, by far the largest population center his group has ever held.

He has proved to be an elusive target, rarely using communication that can be monitored, and moving constantly, often multiple times in one 24-hour cycle, the sources say.

From their efforts to track him, they believe he hides mostly among sympathetic civilians in familiar desert villages, rather than with fighters in their barracks in urban areas where combat has been under way, the sources say.

 

ISOLATED

At the height of its power two years ago, Islamic State ruled over millions of people in territory running from northern Syria through towns and villages along the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys to the outskirts of Baghdad in Iraq.

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces began an operation five months ago to recapture Mosul, a city at least four times the size of any other the group has held. The biggest battle in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, it has been slow going, in part because hundreds of thousands of civilians remain in harm's way.

The 100,000-strong Iraqi force fully captured the eastern half of Mosul in January, and commanders began an operation to cross the Tigris and take the western half last month. Progress has since been steady and the coalition says its victory is now inevitable, which would dismantle the caliphate in Iraq.

The intelligence sources point to a sharp drop in Islamic State postings on social media as evidence that Baghdadi and his circle have become increasingly isolated.

Baghdadi himself has not released a recorded speech since early November, two weeks after the start of the Mosul battle, when he called on his followers to fight the "unbelievers" and "make their blood flow as rivers."

Since then, sporadic Islamic State statements mention attacks carried out by suicide bombers at various locations in Iraq and Syria, but place no particular emphasis on Mosul, despite the city being the main center of fighting.

Neither Baghdadi nor any of his close aides released any comment on the fall of the eastern part of the city in January.

The group's presence on Telegram, a social media network that had become its main platform for announcements and speeches, has tapered off. The coalition estimates that Islamic State activity on Twitter has fallen by 45 percent since 2014, with 360,000 of the group's Twitter accounts suspended so far and new ones usually shut down within two days.

 

"GAME IS UP"

In what is likely to be a major symbolic victory for the U.S.-backed Iraqi forces, they are now closing in on the area around Mosul's Great Mosque on the western bank of the Tigris, where Baghdadi proclaimed his caliphate.

More than half of the 6,000 jihadists left to defend the city have been killed, according to Hisham al-Hashimi, the author of the book "World of Daesh", who also advises the Iraqi government. Daesh is an Arabic acronym for Islamic State.

U.S. commanders sound upbeat and say the battle for the city is now in a late stage.

"The game is up," U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Matthew Isler told Reuters at the Qayyara West Airfield south of Mosul, adding that some of Islamic State's foreign fighters are trying to leave the city.

Those left behind to fight, mostly Iraqis, are putting up a "very hard fight" on the tactical level but they are no longer an integrated force, as coalition air strikes took out command and control centers, car bombs and weapon caches, he said.

"They have lost this fight and what you're seeing is a delaying action," he said.

Although the loss of Mosul would effectively end Islamic State's territorial rule in Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi officials are preparing for the group to go underground and fight an insurgency like the one that followed the U.S.-led invasion.

The "caliphate" as a state structure would end with the capture of Raqqa, its de facto capital in Syria, possibly later this year.

Raqqa is far smaller than Mosul, but mounting operations against Islamic State in Syria has been trickier than in Iraq, because the group's many Syrian enemies have mostly been pre-occupied fighting among themselves in a civil war since 2011.

Nevertheless, Islamic State has faced setbacks in Syria over the past year against three main foes: U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab militias, the Russian-backed Syrian army, and mainly Sunni Muslim Syrian rebels backed by Turkey.

 

"The inevitability of their destruction just becomes really a matter of time," said Major General Rupert Jones, deputy commander for the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition, adding that the group's leadership was now focused on little more than survival.

The last official report about Baghdadi was from the Iraqi military on Feb. 13. Iraqi F-16s carried out a strike on a house where he was thought to be meeting other commanders, in western Iraq, near the Syrian border, it said.

Baghdadi, an Iraqi whose real name is Ibrahim al-Samarrai, is moving in a remote, mostly-desert stretch populated exclusively by Sunni Arab tribes north of the Euphrates river, according to Hashimi.

The area stretches from the town of Baaj, in northwestern Iraq, to the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal on the Euphrates.

"It's their historic region, they know the people there and the terrain; food, water and gasoline are easy to get, spies are easier to spot" than in crowded areas, he said.

The U.S. government has had a joint task force to track down Baghdadi which includes special operations forces, the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies as well as spy satellites of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

But Baghdadi seems to have learnt the lessons from the 2011 capture and killing of Osama bin Ladin, and relies on multiple couriers and not just one, unlike the al Qaeda founder, say U.S. intelligence sources.

He also switches cars during trips, a lesson learnt from the 2011 drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda figure in Yemen.

Baghdadi has not publicly appointed a successor, but Iyad al-Obaidi, also known as Fadel Haifa, a security officer under former dictator Saddam Hussein, is known to be the de facto deputy, according to Iraqi intelligence sources.

More than 40 leading members of the group have been killed in coalition air strikes, but the insurgency is likely to continue even if Mosul is captured and Baghdadi and his aides are killed, according to Iraqi security experts.

"There will be other commanders rising because the structure of the organization remains," said Fadhil Abu Ragheef, an Iraqi security expert specialized in IS affairs.

 

(Reporting by Isabel Coles in Mosul, John Walcott in Washington and Maher Chmaytelli in Baghdad; writing by Maher Chmaytelli; additional reporting by Mohammed el-Sherif in Cairo and Kylie MacLellan in London; Editing by Samia Nakhoul and Peter Graff)

[Wiljor]

Thanks Yota, I can't wait for the day you or someone posts that this guy is done, cooked, eradicated, smoked or just plain whacked and removed from this planet and sent straight to h3ll 

[tigergorzow]

ISIS leader Baghdadi escaped Mosul fight – US, Iraqi sources

March 08 2017 04:09 PM

leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

US and Iraqi officials believe the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left operational commanders behind with diehard followers to fight the battle of Mosul, and is now hiding out in the desert, focusing mainly on his own survival, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
 

It is impossible to confirm the whereabouts of the ISIS "caliph", who declared himself the ruler of all Muslims from Mosul's Great Mosque after his forces swept through northern Iraq in 2014.

But US and Iraqi intelligence sources say an absence of official communication from the group's leadership and the loss of territory in Mosul suggest he has abandoned the city, by far the largest population center his group has ever held.

He has proved to be an elusive target, rarely using communication that can be monitored, and moving constantly, often multiple times in one 24-hour cycle, the sources say.

From their efforts to track him, they believe he hides mostly among sympathetic civilians in familiar desert villages, rather than with fighters in their barracks in urban areas where combat has been under way, the sources say.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/7884/ISIS-leader-Baghdadi-escaped-Mosul-fight-US-Iraqi-sources

[yota691]

Estimates about the escape of al-Baghdadi, the desert and handed over the leadership of the battle of Mosul to his followers «loyal»

 

 

Mar 09, 2017

 

Mosul «Quds Al- Arabi» Agencies announced that the Iraqi army, on Wednesday, that his forces managed to free two blocks on the west side of the city of Mosul after about 24 hours on Aguethamanma, at a time when dominated on the road link between the western side of Mosul and Tal Afar, while US and Iraqi officials expressed, they believe that the leader of the «state», Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi , leaving the battle for Mosul operations leaders and faithful followers and is now hiding in the desert , where he concentrated his attention on his survival. 
According to sources , US and Iraqi intelligence, the absence of any official statements from the leadership of the organization and the loss of control over parts of the city of Mosul , suggests that al - Baghdadi abandoned Mosul. 
The sources add that they think through the efforts of tracing to be hiding mostly among civilians from sympathizers in the villages of desert familiar to him not among the fighters in their barracks in urban areas where fighting is taking place . 
On the ground, the commander of Nineveh operations are coming, Lt. Gen. Abdul - Amir Allah Yar said in a statement read out on state television, said that «anti - terrorism forces freed a second shy of the martyrs and the Al - Mansour, and raised the Iraqi flag over Mbanehma.» 
The liberalization of these neighborhoods, the number of liberated neighborhoods in this aspect has risen to 12 since the launch of its liberation from the grip of «Islamic state» in the 19th of last month process. 
According to Ghanem , Izz al- Din Awsi, Brigadier - General in command of the rapid reaction system, the «Iraqi forces began to have the reins of the military initiative and continues its incursion in the neighborhood, after retrieval of these two neighborhoods.» 
He added that «more than 18 people dead, as well as the destruction of a number of different wheels and Firearms, the organization losses during the second liberation martyrs operations and Mansour.» He explained that a special force of a counter - terrorism and national security and rapid response «will begin within the next few hours , the process of cleansing and extensive alive, to hunt down the gunmen who threw their weapons and fled between unarmed civilians.» 
He guessed that the anti - terrorism forces and federal police forces Armored Division ninth converge in western Mosul, to initiate a wide operation to storm the ancient city of Mosul, which includes narrow streets and alleys and buildings dating back to the twenties of the last century. 
Meanwhile, first lieutenant in the Iraqi army Nayef al - Zubaidi said the joint forces of the SPLA and the crowd took control of the road between the western side of Mosul and Tal Afar west of the city. 
He added that « the security forces took control of the road link between the western side of the connector with the district of Tal Afar, and thus cut off the supply route to and from the southern neighborhoods of the city with Talafar , which is besieged from all sides». 
Zubaidi said that «EP and the crowd hierarchy forces erected roadblocks and isolated western districts of Mosul for the road to Tal Afar to repel the attacks expected to regulate the state». 
In parallelism, a military official said Iraqi forces had repulsed a counter - offensive launched by the organization last «Islamic state» night near the main government building in Mosul , just hours after wrest control of it in the context of the pursuit forces to push the militants to retreat further. 
Maj . Gen. Ali Kadhim al - Lami of the fifth division of the Federal Police near the site that the organization «State» fighters used several car bombs in the attack. 
The «We are now clearing the area that was edited in the Pedal outside and inside the pedal and the prophet ****.» 
Military officials said that troops from the Rapid Response Unit , a division of the Interior Ministry 's special forces regained first on Tuesday , the local government and the central bank branch and the headquarters of the museum , which was filmed by militants themselves inside in 2015 and they are destroying the statues are not valued by money. Al - Lami said that the museum is completely free of any artifacts pointing out that it was stolen and probably all fled. 
He said most of the fighters who fought on the local museum , but there were some foreigners. 
He added that orders were issued to foreign fighters who are accompanied by their families to withdraw with their families and the fighters who are not accompanied by their families to stay and fight , whether they are local or foreign 
, it said an Iraqi military source, that the factions of the «popular crowd» (pro-government) freed three new regions in the side Western connector. 
Said Uday Mohammed officer in the Iraqi army captain said that «armed factions of the Popular Mobilization Forces liberated the villages of Tel Alkhozrv, and Humaidan, and the train station soap, within the administrative borders the western side of the connector.» 
He pointed out that « the battles between the crowd and the militants who have been forced to withdraw to the west side of the city because of the depth of the intensity of the air strikes carried out by a subsidiary of the Iraqi army aviation aircraft». 
Controlled organization on the whole in the middle of 2014 the city of Mosul, but the areas of influence are steadily diminishing in Iraq, especially after losing the eastern side of the connector, and lost a lot of strategic locations in the Western - centered since the start of liberalization process on the nineteenth of last month.

[TexasMike1958]

  Interesting story.  I don't know how to do this any other way.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/is-leader-baghdadi-abandons-mosul-fight-to-field-commanders-us-and-iraqi-sources-say/ar-AAo0zuW?li=AA4Zpp&ocid=spartanntp

Edited March 8, 2017 by TexasMike1958

[yota691]

Sources: Al-Baghdadi terrorist escape from Mosul

 

 

9/3/2017 0:00    Baghdad / follow - up to the morning ,    Iraqi and American officials said that "Daesh" terrorist leader Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi ,escaped from the battle of Mosul, and that he is now hiding in the desert, as it focused its attention on he will Alehiah.otakd intelligence sources , US and Iraqi, was quoted by the Reuters news agency, said the " the absence of any official statements from the leadership of the organization and the loss of control of most of Mosul suggest that he fled from the city , " the sources .otadhav they "think through the efforts of tracing to be hiding mostly among civilians in villages in the desert" .uchir intelligence sources to a sharp drop in up assertions "Daesh" on social media as evidence that al - Baghdadi and his entourage are getting Azlh.olm issued the same al - Baghdadi , a recorded message since November , two weeks after the beginning of the battle of Mosul , when he called on his supporters to fight . "He said Brigadier General Matthew Keller of the US air Force: { the terrorists have lost this battle and Tchehdonh now is to delay the process to resolve them }.

[tigergorzow]

IS leader al-Baghdadi has fled Mosul: US official

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Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has fled Mosul and has apparently delegated tactical control of the battle for the city to local commanders, a US defense official said Wednesday.

The official said the elusive leader, who appeared in public in Mosul in July 2014 to proclaim a "caliphate," fled the former IS bastion some time before Iraqi security forces surrounded the city during an offensive to retake it.

"He was in Mosul at some point before the offensive. We know he's been there," the official told reporters.

"He left before we isolated Mosul and Tal Afar," a town to the west of the city, the official added.

Baghdadi is not believed to be exercising any kind of tactical influence on how the Mosul fight will play out, the official said.

"He probably gave broad strategic guidance and has left it to battlefield commanders."

The hunt for Baghdadi is being led by various groups including US special operations forces, while the anti-IS coalition focuses on killing battlefield commanders.

IS has lost most of the land it once held in Iraq and Syria but hopes to cling to scraps of a self-declared caliphate, the official said.

Since summer 2014, when IS was at its peak just ahead of the US-led war on the group, the jihadists have lost 65 percent of the land they'd seized across much of northern Syria and large parts of Iraq.

IS now is looking beyond the seemingly inevitable loss of their strongholds of Mosul in Iraq and Raqa in Syria.

"I don't think they have given up on their vision of their caliphate yet," the official said, noting IS hopes to hold on to parts of eastern Syria and western Iraq.

"They still believe they can function and are still making plans to continue to function as a pseudo-state centered in the Euphrates River valley."

In Mosul, Iraqi security forces backed by Western air power have recaptured the eastern side of the city and are making gradual progress into the western side in a bloody fight.

IS jihadists realize their days are numbered in Mosul and, despite having spent two years building defensive measures in Raqa, also understand they will lose that bastion too, the official said.

"Logically, any of those leaders would look at that situation and say from a military perspective this may be not be tenable for us to hold," the official said.

"Raqa would probably not be the final battle against ISIS... There is still ISIS in the rest of the Euphrates river valley downstream that will have to be dealt with."

About 15,000 IS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, including some 2,500 in Mosul and the neighboring town of Tal Afar and as many as 4,000 still in Raqa, the official said

 

 http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/is-leader-al-baghdadi-has-fled-mosul-us-official/article/487489#ixzz4amnH4h2p

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2 hours ago, tigergorzow said:

IS leader al-Baghdadi has fled Mosul: US official

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Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has fled Mosul and has apparently delegated tactical control of the battle for the city to local commanders, a US defense official said Wednesday.

The official said the elusive leader, who appeared in public in Mosul in July 2014 to proclaim a "caliphate," fled the former IS bastion some time before Iraqi security forces surrounded the city during an offensive to retake it.

"He was in Mosul at some point before the offensive. We know he's been there," the official told reporters.

"He left before we isolated Mosul and Tal Afar," a town to the west of the city, the official added.

Baghdadi is not believed to be exercising any kind of tactical influence on how the Mosul fight will play out, the official said.

"He probably gave broad strategic guidance and has left it to battlefield commanders."

The hunt for Baghdadi is being led by various groups including US special operations forces, while the anti-IS coalition focuses on killing battlefield commanders.

IS has lost most of the land it once held in Iraq and Syria but hopes to cling to scraps of a self-declared caliphate, the official said.

Since summer 2014, when IS was at its peak just ahead of the US-led war on the group, the jihadists have lost 65 percent of the land they'd seized across much of northern Syria and large parts of Iraq.

IS now is looking beyond the seemingly inevitable loss of their strongholds of Mosul in Iraq and Raqa in Syria.

"I don't think they have given up on their vision of their caliphate yet," the official said, noting IS hopes to hold on to parts of eastern Syria and western Iraq.

"They still believe they can function and are still making plans to continue to function as a pseudo-state centered in the Euphrates River valley."

In Mosul, Iraqi security forces backed by Western air power have recaptured the eastern side of the city and are making gradual progress into the western side in a bloody fight.

IS jihadists realize their days are numbered in Mosul and, despite having spent two years building defensive measures in Raqa, also understand they will lose that bastion too, the official said.

"Logically, any of those leaders would look at that situation and say from a military perspective this may be not be tenable for us to hold," the official said.

"Raqa would probably not be the final battle against ISIS... There is still ISIS in the rest of the Euphrates river valley downstream that will have to be dealt with."

About 15,000 IS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, including some 2,500 in Mosul and the neighboring town of Tal Afar and as many as 4,000 still in Raqa, the official said

 

 http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/is-leader-al-baghdadi-has-fled-mosul-us-official/article/487489#ixzz4amnH4h2p

Hang on ! Were there not articles stating that al-Baghdaddy's movements were being monitored ? Well, we'll get the little bugger at some point.

We could parade some sexy lady goats about - I'm sure he would crack under the pressure !  

[tigergorzow]

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ISIS defenses crumble in Iraq and Syria after leaders flee battles and midlevel commanders are killed: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/8/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-isis-still-alive-pentagon/ … #Mosul #Raqqa

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The Washington Times‏Verified account @WashTimes 17m17 minutes ago

 

ISIS defenses crumble in Iraq and Syria after leaders flee battles and midlevel commanders are killed: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/8/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-isis-still-alive-pentagon/ … #Mosul #Raqqa

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King Rat & whats left of his cohorts leaving the sinking ship, while the little rats are left to fend for themselves. It's breaking down and in a very quick way.

No matter what the war in any century, it's always the same when the the losing side knows ALL HOPE is lost - Skin out and to hell with anyone else.

It's - " F*^k You Jack I'm alright " --------- We could see some remarkable events taking shape, and Pronto ! 

[tigergorzow]

IS Leader Hiding in Desert

Shoguna B. Sobir

09/03/2017 - 04:53

Middle East

 

 

ISTANBUL — Islamic State (IS) leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left Mosul and is now hiding out in the desert among sympathetic civilians, according to US and Iraqi officials.  

However, his exact whereabouts are unknown as he rarely uses trackable communication devices and changes his location, and vehicles en route to a new location numerous times each day, said the officials. 

Currently, IS operational commanders along with thousands of militants are leading the battle in western Mosul.  Eastern Mosul was declared liberated on January 24th. However, al-Baghdadi did not release a recorded speech to comment on the territorial loss of his self-proclaimed caliphate. His last speech, wherein he encouraged his supporters to not give up, but fight the "unbelievers," was released in November, about two weeks after the operation to recapture the city from IS militants commenced. 

Although there is no end date set for the operation, officials have said that the operation is progressing satisfactorily. The fight in the western part of the city is expected to be more intense than the eastern part, due to the old, narrow structure of the city, which in certain areas is not accommodating to military vehicles. 

The intensity of the expected fight notwithstanding, officials are optimistic about taking full control of Mosul along with Raqqa. However, this does not mean that the IS as an organization will be destroyed. As their recruitment is ongoing, and the organization has a hierarchical structure, even if al-Baghdadi is killed along with other top IS commanders, others will rise to take their place.

The operation to recapture Mosul began on October 17th of last year.  The operation moved on to the western half of the city on February 19th. 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/middle-east/335226

[yota691]

Pentagon: Al-Baghdadi is not in Mosul

History of edits:: 3.8.2017 23:21 • 280 visits readable

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US Department of Defense , "Pentagon" likely to be the leader of al Daesh, Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi had left Mosul.

According to the agency "Reuters Wednesday, March 8 / March , citing US intelligence that al - Baghdadi disappears in the desert and refrain from appearing in insurgent strongholds, moving from place to place several times each day. 

He reported that Daesh leader shelter to villages controlled by the organization, and does not use the means Contact fearing followed. 

the Iraqi military said in mid - February last Baghdadi the transfer of Syrian tenderness into Iraqi territory. 

it has already been denied repeated the Pentagon killed or wounded Baghdadi rumors.

[yota691]

Gold division commander reveals the hiding place of al­ Baghdadi Thursday 09 March 2017 | 13:54 Said the commander of the golden Iraqi Army Division, Maj . Gen. Fadhil Barwari, said Thursday that the successor organization Daesh currently hiding inside Syrian territory, pointing to the existence of a determined effort to arrest him. Berwari said, that: "Khalifa Daesh Abu Bakr al­Baghdadi, leaving Nineveh province and went to Syria , " adding: " The phone call revealed his presence in Syria and we will make every effort to arrest him." Berwari pointed out that: "Peshmerga forces was instrumental in Mosul during the liberation of the terrorists Daesh process , " stressing that " the organization of Daesh committed acts of inhuman right people in Mosul, for this organization is heading toward extinction."

[gregp]

I'm sure hobummer helped him OUT.....

[yota691]

a new map of the hiding place of al - Baghdadi .. and "al - Obeidi , " front - runner to succeed him

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Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

 

 

Erbil (Kurdistan 24) - Drawing a new map and US Iraqi officials for hiding place Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, he said, leaving the battle for Mosul operations leaders and faithful followers and is now hiding in the desert, where he concentrated his attention on his survival.

The monument Baghdadi himself "successor" to the Muslims in his first appearance from the rostrum of the big-Nouri mosque in Mosul in July July 2014.

Says US and Iraqi intelligence sources say that the absence of any official statements from the leadership of the organization and the loss of control over parts of the city of Mosul suggests that the abandonment of the city seized by the middle of 2014.

Iraqi forces have been battling in the last stronghold of the main organizing Daesh in the western part of the city of Mosul, where he regained control of the eastern part in January last.

According to a report carried by Reuters it has proved that al-Baghdadi, "an elusive goal," rarely used means of communication can be monitored and sources say that he is constantly moving and often more than once during the day.

The sources believe that al-Baghdadi hiding among civilians mostly from sympathizers in the villages of desert familiar to him not among the fighters in their barracks in urban areas where fighting is taking place.

According to intelligence sources, a sharp decline in the organization publishes Daesh on social media as evidence that al-Baghdadi and his entourage are getting isolated.

Baghdadi himself did not issue a recorded message since early November, two weeks after the beginning of the battle of Mosul, when he called on his supporters not to withdraw from the battle.

Since then, sporadic data of the organization talking about attacks by suicide bombers in different locations in Iraq and Syria, but does not attach particular importance to Mosul despite the fact that the city's main square to fight.

There was no al-Baghdadi all or any of his close aides comment to edit the eastern part of Mosul, who was taken away by Iraqi forces after a hundred days of fighting with Daesh.

Iraqi forces are now approaching the area where the mosque where Al-Nouri is likely to be a symbolic victory for Iraq Daesh located.

The last official report on al-Baghdadi of the Iraqi army on 13 February when the military said its warplanes F-16 carried out a raid on a house believed he was meeting with other leaders in western Iraq near the Syrian border.

According to Hashemi, the Iraqi Albgdada- nationality whose real name is Ibrahim Acommraia- traveling in a remote desert area inhabited by Sunni tribes from the Arabs to the north of the Euphrates River.

The region stretches from the city of Baaj in northwestern Iraq to the Syrian border town of Abu Kamal on the Euphrates River.

He said al-Hashimi "this historic their area and they know the people there and the terrain is easy to get food, water and gasoline as spies to monitor easier" than in crowded areas.

The US government has formed a joint force to trace the impact of al-Baghdadi, comprising members of the Special Operations Forces and the CIA and other US intelligence agencies in addition to the use of spy Boqmar.

Baghdadi did not publicly declare the appointment of a successor is that the Iraqi intelligence sources say that it is known that Ayad al-Obeidi, also popularly known as Fadel Haifa security officer under Saddam Hussein, is the actual vice-Baghdadi.

The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, said recently that the whereabouts of Daesh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader known to him.

The speculation was issued to Iraqi officials and the US military that al-Baghdadi had left to the east of Syria, while others said he was still hiding in the desert area of western Mosul.

Washington has a prize of $ 25 million reward for any information leading to al-Baghdadi.