Isis leader incapacitated with suspected spinal injuries after air strike

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Isis leader incapacitated with suspected spinal injuries after air strike

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is being treated in hideout two months after attack while
deputy leader Abu Alaa al-Afri runs terror group intent on revenge

Martin Chulov in Irbil
Friday 1 May 2015 13.27 BST

The leader of the Islamic State (Isis), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi remains incapacitated due to suspected spinal damage and is being treated by two doctors who travel to his hideout from the group’s stronghold of Mosul, the Guardian has learned.

More than two months after being injured in a US air strike in north-western Iraq, the self-proclaimed caliph is yet to resume command of the terror group that has been rampaging through Iraq and Syria since June last year. Three sources close to Isis have confirmed that Baghdadi’s wounds could mean he will never again lead the organisation.

Isis is now being led by a long-term senior official, Abu Alaa al-Afri, who had been appointed deputy leader when his predecessor was killed by an air strike late last year.

Details of Baghdadi’s condition, and of the physicians treating him, have emerged since the Guardian revealed he had been seriously wounded on 18 March in an air strike that killed three men he was travelling with. The attack took place in al-Baaj, 80 miles (128km) west of Mosul.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/isis-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-incapacitated-suspected-spinal-injuries-iraq

[NV Whino]

1. They must have sent the Baltimore police to deal with the ISIS situation.