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IS leader appears in propaganda video for first time in five years

World news Earlier today
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has purportedly appeared in a propaganda video released by the Islamic State group, speaking about a recent battle and the attacks in Sri Lanka. Al-Baghdadi was injured in a 2015 airstrike and believed to have been in poor health prior to this video.
Photo via @CNN
· 10 hours ago

1) BREAKING: ’ Furqan issues new video showing leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, marking the first time he is shown in a video since his July 2014 sermon at the Great Mosque in

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· 10 hours ago

2) The video shows Baghdadi in a casual conversational setting with others (their faces blurred). He talks about war against "Crusaders" and about battles in being over, indicating that this interview was filmed somewhat recently.

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· 9 hours ago

It's unclear when or where the video was filmed, but Baghdadi refers to battle of as "over" - but pledges there will be more to come as the fight against the West is "a long battle."

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· 10 hours ago

Wow. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is on video, seen for the first time since the declaration of the Caliphate. He looks healthy—older, but aren’t we all—and is talking calmly about recent events. He’s alive.

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· 9 hours ago

So far the message is noteworthy mostly for the timeline. (It’s very recent. Sri Lanka!) His complexion looks healthy, not like someone living in a spiderhole. Right ear ugly, but maybe it was always that way. Frank’s sign?

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· 10 hours ago

Baghdadi had been badly injured in an air strike in 2015. Photo suggests he’s fully recovered.

Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'seriously wounded in air strike'
Baghdadi no longer in day-to-day control of terror group as he recovers from injuries sustained during attack in March, according to sources
theguardian.com
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· 10 hours ago

Baghdadi does not appear to be injured or thin as some have suggested. Time-stamps the video by talking about Baghouz and mentions events as recent as the Sri Lanka attacks.

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· 10 hours ago

5 years apart- ISIS leader Baghdadi.

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· 9 hours ago

5) There is serious danger not only to the fact that Baghdadi, ’ so-called Caliph, is still alive--but also that he is able to reemerge to his supporters and reaffirm the group’s us-vs-the-world message after all the progress made against the group.

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