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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly poisoned by Unknown Assassin
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The news of his repeated death is becoming a clickbait title. You will never guess how Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died, number 4 will shock you.
Seriously, r/worldnews is a joke. A simple google search about this guy shows we "killed him" 3 other times.
Clearly he truly is Allah's chosen if he is resurrected so often.
Worked for Beric Dondarrion
What is dead may never die
Or maybe he is just a cat.
Or maybe he is Rasputin
Maybe they just keep promoting dudes with the same name to the position to disguise the mortality rate, like parents do with their kids' pets. RIP Abu Bakr (Nibbles) al-Baghdadi.
Here's a joke: ISIS is getting really lazy with their names. Al-Baghdadi? Who's next in line, Mr Saudi Arabia? I'll be here all night. Try the lamb.
Any ISIS related news is clickbait here. I see fake propaganda stories with thousands of up votes all the time here.
"SAS sniper shoots ISIS thug 10k away freeing 10000 sex slaves" will be top stories with comments like:
"Fuck yeah, we showed them" and "Hahaha take that ISIS" everywhere.
These readers lack common sense and are hugely gullible. They believe anything they want to hear.
This article is at least up front that the source is the Iranian government.
The dude is ISIS's Rasputin.
I suspect a woman, or a eunuch.
Could be a red viper.
It was the Hashashin... they have returned to spread fear among the Muslim rulers and foreign Christian crusaders causing havoc and mischief in the holy lands. o.0
We will know if we see videos of a hooded guy jumping of tall buildings and falling to haystacks.
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
and glitching through walls
Nice try Dan Brown
Chaosh ish a laddah.
Is that a Sean Connery-ism?
Totally. Totally. Before I even saw your comment my internal voice automatically Sean Conneryieded that phrase.
It's a Baelishism
umm...Hashashin were muslims? :/
Hashashin are a sect of Nizari Shia Islam, which was at odds with the mainstream Sunni Islam (most famously represented by Saladin at that time). Nizari still exists and they claim unbroken Imam lineage from Ali to the present Imam Aga Khan IV.
so they're basically hezbollah ninjas
Do they still smoke dope?
Does that mean even if he's poisoned, he'll be Frankensteined?
Not unless he has some weird sadistic Dr Frankenstein-esque character laying around. So maybe
It was probably Dave
Or his bastard son.
Definitely the sand snakes
dat haram poosay
He was "poisoned by our enemies."
I suspect Zamasu.
Does the girl have a name?
A girl has no name
Or maybe... it didn't happen. He was
Blown up by an air strike and killed
Killed by a us troop
Blown up by another air strike
Now he was poisoned
He probably isn't dead and we'll see an article about him next week. Guarantee it.
Starts sentence with probably, ends with guarantee. Lemme ask you where your sources are from? Reddit I bet lol.
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You caught me!
Well if it's true he's survived bombing, soldiers, then more bombing, it could be that this is just another false alarm. It certainly would look good to broach the topic for a news corp
I hope it's a false alarm and he hasn't survived all these. He must be harder than fucking He-Man, and that guy is the self pro claim strongest man in the universe.
Could be anyone given how many enemies he has made in that region alone.
A eunuch? They've added castration to their mischievous book for Jihadists?
The red witch gave birth to a terrible demon!
My money would be on one of the faceless men.
Probably had some bad pussy.
Bad dates?
Should have had a taste-tester monkey.
Ding! We have a winner!
I suggest he stop picking up women from the bar. I met my ex-wife at a bar and she's a whore
We had group sex on our wedding night, I wasn't involved
If you watched, then you were involved.
He could hear it through the walls.
Different kind of date
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I am the ruler of the cl..
catch
[Bad Dates!] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qIMTA4_YdU)
First dailymail, now foxnews, whats next makeshitup.com?
Damn -- I wish I owned that URL!
Inb4 it was the french
"We gave him American cheese hon hon hon"
The old "Le Omelette Fromage American" Switcheroo!
I don't think the French would consider American cheese cheese.
Kraft isn't legally allowed to call their 'cheese based products' cheese either.
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Vermont cheddar is real cheese.
Hold mon dieu, I'm going in!
"Hold My God I'm Going in!"
Tiens mon gode je vais dedans.
I laughed way too hard at this
Greatest ally
Fuck man my day has been lousy and this made it for me, thank you.
The French have one of the best espionage agencies in the world, this is actually a very good guess and I hope you're right because if they did it, he'll probably die. Slowly.
Why would the French espionage agency want him to die slowly instead of fast?
Dramatic effect I suppose.
And time for them to GTFO before the death occurs?
Because that's a BS theory.
Baghdadi has a lots of enemies, not everyone was keen on seeing him as a leader.
Also, a lot of people on his conquered territories would love to get revenge.
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I love your thinking. Hope that shit bag writhes in misery for many days before he dies and shits/pisses himself upon death so his fucked followers gotta clean the mess...
Your hopes are a reflection of you, not Bagdadi.
Expected this and gotta say you aren't wrong and as an adult I do work on dealing with the fact that people so evil can exist without wanting equal justice; two wrongs don't make a right so thank you for reminding me that.
I'm just going to hope he gets his brains blown out by special forces or he takes a JDAM to the face.
"It was eazy my dear friond, i feed him british food. he could not survive honhonhon"
"my fallback plan waz to make him mate wiz what ze anglo use to reproduce; bestiality is forbidden by zeir book honhon"
Thats actually possible , there are lots of suspicions about numerous black ops from the French DGSE in collaboration with the DST , DCRI and the special forces against ISIS in Syria and elsewhere , it was already exposed after the death of 3 operators in a rescue attempt in lybia i think and the government admitted special forces were on the ground. Not sure why they would use poison but who knows. Could also be a rival to al Baghdadi , that seems more likely...
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Polonium tea anyone?
Order confirmed
Ricin?
Maybe they replaced his stevia with ricin? :O
Ricin beans?
Alexander Litvinenko would have agreed with you.
Black Widow confirmed.
That was my first thought as well. It's Russia's MO for sure.
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He has been reported poisoned not killed.
Sorry I could not resist.
He is the Rasputin of the Middle East
Yazidis favourite love machine.
Point being that he would not be, if the dollar was not so inclined on surviving like a bitch.
There was a cat that really could bomb
Yes, he dies every few months, just type Al-badhdadi into the world news search bar, it's click bait until one of those articles says "Confirmed"
Either there's more than one person with that name or title, he didn't actually die, or he's come back to life several times.
Still has 3-4 lives left.
What is dead can never die.
He is cat. Meow!
i will pray for his death
No way. We killed this guy six times already since 2014.
Only 3 more lives to go
Stan Smith CIA!!
Party in the CIA!
YES!!! Love me some American Dad.
I call bullshit. This links back to Sputnik News, which cites Iraqi Media News Agency, which cites PressTV, which cites Iraqi Media News Agency...
Poison is a weapon for women - GoT
That's an idea that goes back at least as far as ancient Rome.
I'd argue it goes back at least as far as the past Medea
or the KGB.
and healthy bear
He says, gasping for life. If this shit wasn't effective it wouldn't be used.
Since he's been injured for some time (at least, that's what I've heard), they are probably prepared for his death, so I'm not sure his death will do much to weaken them.
Everyone always says this, but imagine if you killed off some people leading a company or the US Military.
At some point you run out of real talent and end up promoting people well above their abilities. If you kept assassinating people in leadership positions at McDonalds. How many store managers or fry cooks do you think legitimately could make that step up? Could Edward J. Burgerflipper run a multinational? Could he even run a fraction of that?
Apparently, fast food was designed so that you can bring in any random person, and have them fully trained within a day.
Yea at the low level. Not corporate level. And while that may technically be true, you'd be running an absolutely terrible organization if you got new people every day.
Yea, but keep in mind that we have constantly been killing the people behind Al-Baghdadi, so their order of succession is constantly getting fucked up.
Maybe we will get lucky if it gets fucked up enough and Al-Baghdadi snuffs it, that there will be a power vacuum for leadership and ISIS factions can just fight each other into obliteration.
They've legit got back ups for their back ups
Isn't he supposed to be Caliph? Without him there is no caliphate? I didnt think there was a backup for god?
Poisoned by his enemies, no doubt.
Considering their living conditions this would not be hard to do.
It was a jealous boyfriend. I guarantee it.
Goats don't get jealous. Apparently they just get even.
It's weird how much I don't give a shit about this person. At least when Osama bin laden was fake killed or whatever, I was a bit curious, but I haven't bonded with this latest villain at all.
It's really hard to top Gadaffi, he was straight out of 007.
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Great job desmond.
Here's the content for those who don't want to be slammed by Faux News's advertising and self-playing videos.
Haha, I hope his death is slow and painful.
A girl has no name....
Good to see atleast someones playing assassination spec rogue over there.
Assassin implies al Baghdadi was killed. It's a would-be assassin if he's still alive.
according to the article he was poisoned by an Unknown Secret Assassin
wtf is this, top 4-5 comments are all lines from or about movies/tv shows
Maybe the donkeys uprose and got revenge.
Dave came through for us!
Right after banning cats...
Well, I'll wait for confirmation from a more reliable source, but if true, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving jagoff.
Unfortunately, there will almost certainly be a younger, more ruthless guy with more to prove waiting to step in and fill his shoes.
I bet it's just food poisoning, cause I don't believe they have proper regulatory systems in place.
Trump strikes.
May you constantly remain a type 7 on the Bristol Stool Chart al-Baghdadi
How many times is this guy going to die?
We all know what happens next.
Assassin's Creed 84668: Black ISIS Flag :)
Praise be!
Allahu Trapbar!
Uh, what?
Anyone have any other info on this? Maybe WHY he was released?
Probably because he was a relative nobody back then. There's some saying about hindsight regarding situations like this...
He was actually arrested in February 2004 and released in December 2004. There was previously incorrect reporting that he was held from 2005-2009, but that isn't true. He was released because he was a nobody at the time, and the Combined Review and Release Board recommended that he be released.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2014/dec/31/setting-record-straight-when-did-we-free-islamic-s/
Soon after the invasion of Iraq, the White House dictated actions of occupation to the Generals in command. These Generals who oversaw the First Gulf War and the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan retired in a few weeks after the fall of Baghdad. The entirety of US high command in Iraq was gutted. A relatively unknown general, General Sanchez, who had never commanded a unit larger than a division, was given full command of US military forces in Iraq. With little intelligence and a small occupation force, he in no way could control the country, or was necessarily trained to do so. As Iraq descended into chaos, the military began rounding up and jailing military aged males near insurgent areas. They would be temporarily incarcerated, interrogated and mostly freed since Command needed more human intelligence on the ground. Most of the detention scandals like Abu Ghraib happened under Sanchez's command.
ISIS began its time as a foreign outfit fighting in Iraq, but through attrition and infighting, it became nearly a fully Iraqi institution at the highest level. During the Iraq War, AQI (now ISIS) used the territory of Syria as a safe heaven from US forces. They would be whittled down to small organization of a few dozen before the US left Iraq. Then came the Shia Iraqi Governments crack down, the Balkanization of Iraq, and a insurgency in Syria. ISIS would benefit greatly from these three events, and become the organization it is today.
TLDR - The US forces at Abu Ghraib considered him small potatoes and released him along with hundreds of other Islamic extremists. Unfortunately his experience in the prison further radicalized him.
Short version: Al-Baghdadi was arrested by US Forces-Iraq on 2 February 2004 near Fallujah and detained at the Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca detention centers under his name Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badry as a "civilian internee" until December 2004, when he was recommended for release by a Combined Review and Release Board. In December 2004, he was released as a "low level prisoner".
Longer Version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi
Very Long Version: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Flags-Rise-Joby-Warrick/dp/0385538219
I highly recommend the Black Flags book. It adds a massive amount of background and framing to ISIS' history. It's got a lot of detail and traces the rise of Islamic extremism in Iraq and Syria from Osama to Zarqawi (of beheading video fame) to Baghdadi. It includes additional context on Baghdadi's internment at Abu-Ghraib.
He completed his ISIS leader training
We were arresting all potential threats during the iraq invasion but because we were the occupiers nothing gave us the right to hold anybody to long. He was probably interroated and tortured much like Abu Ghraib. Where do you think middle eastern hate for western powers stems from?
They've got plenty of reasons, throw that one on the pile.
Seriously though, thanks for taking the time to answer and it sounds like you were over there, so thanks for kicking ass so I can stay here and eat ice cream and be opinionated and stuff.
First Daily Mail reports it, now Fox News...what do we have to do to get a credible source for this story?!
You'd probably have to poison the guy.
Well done, Agent 47.
It's Fox News, never trust Fox News
Probably needed to do some paperwork for Allah. I am sure he will decent back upon us very soon.
KGB
"Golf clap?"
"Golf clap."
::golf clap::
Read this yesterday, soooo.....not dead yet? There's always tomorrow for him to go rape his 27 virgins.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Unknown Assassin, one of the lesser known superheroes.
Tut tut tut tut tut. To shreds you say?
And how exactly do we know this?
How many times has this guy died already... bullshit
I think all these reports of his death are part of an ISIS misinformation campaign. He is probably alive and well, somewhere.
How many times has a post on this subreddit come up with saying he's dead?
What a fantastically painful and disgustingly historical method of offing a putz
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GG ez
Looks like Hillary got another one of her critics.
I want this to be the mysterious veiled woman again.
Those damn wizards are getting their revenge.
A girl has no name.
Another one down.. Good job that man.
I suspect someone from firenze
...again
Russians poison everyone, maybe Putin got to him
The meeting turned into a bloodbath after the exacerbation of conflicts between the leaders of the ISIS
The man was poisoned by his enemies
“Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear.”
Hi Unknown Assassin, Im Dad
Same FARS that claimed Iran built a time machine?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/11/what-time-machine-iranian-state-media-quietly-deletes-a-report-that-iran-had-built-one/
Like I posted lots of times, ISIS will be stopped by the people.They will rise up and slay them.