Monday, September 24, 2007

What is al-Baghdadi up to these days?

"It’s finally time for Talisman Gate to catch-up with what Abu Omar al-Baghdadi has been saying lately, since no one else seems to be taking him seriously.

The U.S. military has said that they have a confession from at least one ‘Islamic State of Iraq’ figure—identified as a senior leader in the ISI’s hierarchy—alleging that al-Baghdadi is a fictitious character invented by Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia to lend more of an indigenous Iraqi ‘identity’ to its leadership.

Although I’d agree that non-Iraqi Arabs are better represented in the ISI’s leadership than in its ranks, I tend to disagree with the assertion that al-Baghdadi doesn’t exist.

In the last two month period, Al-Baghdad has put out two new speeches: his fifth speech (43 minutes long) was entitled ‘Should you desist then that is better for you’ and was released on July 9, and his sixth speech was posted to jihadist website on September 15 under the title ‘They plot, but Allah also plots’ and lasts for 27 minutes. I am unaware of any other speeches during this time period."
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