Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Death
The most (in)famous photo of the former ISIS leader
As the story goes, on October 27th, 2019 the Joint Special Operations Command raided the compound of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; and instead of letting himself be captured he blew himself up with
a suicide vest and his remains had to be dug out of the rubble where they then allegedly did a DNA test to confirm it was indeed him then threw the corpse into the water - like like what happened with Osama Bin Laden.
The detail that no body was allowed to be seen inspired a lot of questions within Arab countries that were previously under the rule of ISIS, many doubting that Baghdadi was actually dead - an excerpt from an article detailing
this reasonable doubt reads as follows:
"But in the lands that were under ISIS rule, conspiracy theories are swirling. While many are happy that the man behind much suffering is dead, residents are questioning the details the U.S. has offered about Baghdadi's demise and whether he died at all. Some even wonder whether he ever existed, suggesting how deep distrust of the U.S. government may run in this part of the world.
'First [President George W.] Bush came and said he killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, then [President Barack] Obama came and he said he killed [Osama] bin Laden, now this one comes saying he killed Baghdadi. Every president kills one,' says Zekko Zuhair, a pet store owner in Mosul, Iraq."
It should also be of note that this isn't the first time that Baghdadi was supposedly killed, as Baghdadi seems to have died every year from 2015 to 2019, these examples include:
- In 2015 where Iranian sources claimed that Baghdadi died while being treated of his wounds in an Israeli hospital in the occupied Golan Heights region of Syria.
- In 2016 where Iranian, Turkish, Iraqi and Russian news sources pushed a story that Baghdadi was killed in a US airstrike on the fifth day of Ramadan.
- In 2017 where the Kremlin claimed they had killed Baghdadi in an airstike on an ISIS base located near the outskirts of Raqqa during a meeting of ISIS military commanders.
- In 2018 where Iraqi intelligence said that Baghdadi was killed as the result of an Iraqi air force attack on an ISIS meeting in June of that year.
So in total Baghdadi has died a total of 5 times since 2015 - we're supposed to believe that he's actually dead this time for real and not just alive under a new name somewhere because they needed to boost support for Trump somehow; combine this with the fact that Baghdadi has supposedly been identified as a MOSSAD agent named Simon Elliot it casts doubt on the belief that he's actually dead.
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