“Confirmed Information” that ISIS leader Abu Bakr is dead

We’ll know for sure when the Islamic State offers up a replacement Caliph.

Or the Caliphate might dissolve before re-emerging; loyal ISIS fighters might be absorbed into someone else’s forces; as Iran or some other nation leads the Middle East into the next BIG war.

Excerpts from the article at Joseph Wouk’s warsclerotic blog here

“Syrian Observatory: “Confirmed information” that al-Baghdadi has been eliminated

A Syrian human rights organization claims that it has “confirmed information” that the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been eliminated. This confirms the claim made by the Russian Foreign Ministry a month ago that al-Baghdadi was killed in an air strike, but the Pentagon still insists that they do not have enough information to confirm his death.”

“A member of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that it has “confirmed information” that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. Rumors of his death have been making their rounds since his first and only public appearance in 2014 in which he announced the establishment of the terrorist organization. In June, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Baghdadi and other senior level members of ISIS had been killed in an air strike in Syria, but US intelligence said it could not substantiate the claims.”