Allerdings sollte man auch davon ausgehen, dass deren Job nun nach dem Tod Baghdadis erledigt ist und sie sich in Sicherheit gebracht haben. Al-Baghdadi was in his 30s and went by the nom de guerre Abu Dua, recalled his fellow detainee, who is under a form of witness protection in Iraq and was interviewed in the presence of intelligence agents.“At that point, he was more lucky than he was smart,” Mr. al-Basri said.But unlike Osama bin Laden, al-Baghdadi was no recluse.Some who knew al-Baghdadi the longest wondered if it was his very nature that accounted for his ability to evade capture for so long, and not just his extreme security measures.In many instances, the attackers left behind recordings, social media posts or videos pledging allegiance to al-Baghdadi.One day in August 2014, D was summoned to see him. He was one of five sons and several daughters of a conservative Sunni man who eked out a living selling sheep.On weekends, al-Baghdadi coached a youth soccer team, using practices as an opportunity to hand out pamphlets advocating the ultraconservative Wahhabi strain of Islam.Less than a year later, Mr. Taha was watching TV when he suddenly recognized his former neighbor in footage showing detainees arrested by American forces. Die Operation gegen Baghdadi hatte einem Bericht der „New York Times„ zufolge im Sommer dieses Jahres mit der Planungsphase begonnen, nachdem es der CIA in Kooperation mit irakischen und kurdischen Geheimdienst-Agenten in Nordsyrien offenbar gelungen war, eine der Ehefrauen und einen Kurier des Terroristen-Anführers festzusetzen und zum Reden zu bringen.
“Abu Omar was killed. We’re here to play soccer.’ I just took it and threw it away,” recalled Faisal Ghazi Taih, one of the former players.
But Abu Bakr lasted.”By the time al-Baghdadi began elementary school, the family had moved to the nearby city of Samarra. Dieses finanziert sich durch Werbung und Digitalabonnements. Each time, he resurfaced in audio recordings, and later videos, thumbing his nose at the world.Born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi began life in a dry and desolate plain in the village of Al Jallam in central Iraq.
He didn’t gossip.
And in the interim the promise of a physical caliphate electrified tens of thousands of followers, who flocked to Syria to serve his imagined state.Talib al-Mayahi, now 54, met al-Baghdadi inside the tent where they were both assigned at Camp Bucca. “One of the three was Baghdadi.”A hereditary connection to the Quraysh is regarded as a prerequisite for becoming a caliph, and pamphlets published by ISIS exhorting Muslims to pledge allegiance to al-Baghdadi trace his ancestry from the Badri community in Al Jallam to Fatima, the youngest daughter of the prophet.“When I asked him, ‘Sheikh Ibrahim, I have a question for you,’ he would answer just the question and nothing more,” said the mosque’s current imam, Ahmed Rajab, who was al-Baghdadi’s pupil in the early 2000s. Published: 7:27 PM . He is believed to have stopped using cellphones more than a decade ago, relying exclusively on hand-delivered messages, Mr. al-Basri said.Yet it took five years before troops seized in March the last acre of land under al-Baghdadi’s rule. Dazu zählen auch Nancy Pelosi, die Sprecherin des Repräsentantenhauses und Erzfeindin Trumps, und Senats-Fraktionschef Charles Schumer. “He was laughing at our reaction.”There was no immediate confirmation by the Islamic State’s media arm, which is typically quick to claim attacks but generally takes longer to confirm the deaths of its leaders.“I noticed right away that he was important — everybody stood up when he walked in,” D said.And in Topchi, near the mosque where his voice used to call the faithful to prayer, they laid an ambush. Daraus ergaben sich Anhaltspunkte für den Aufenthaltsort Baghdadis nahe Idlib fünf Kilometer südlich der türkischen Grenze.Baghdadi sei dann – so schilderte es Trump in seinem fast 50-minütigen TV-Auftritt – „wie ein Hund“ und „wie ein Feigling“ gestorben und habe am Ende in einem Tunnel, verfolgt von US-Spezialeinheiten, eine Selbstmordweste gezündet.