Sulaimania, IRAQ (Reuters) - A good Kurdish counter-terrorism reliable said on Monday he become ninety nine p.c sure that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi turned into alive and observed south of the Syrian metropolis of Raqqa, after reports that he had been killed.
"Baghdadi is in fact alive. he's not useless. we've guidance that he's alive. We agree with 99 percent he's alive," Lahur Talabany advised Reuters in an interview.
"do not forget his roots go back to al Qaeda days in Iraq. He became hiding from security functions. He is aware of what he's doing."
Iraqi security forces have ended three years of Islamic State rule within the Iraqi metropolis of Mosul, and the group is beneath growing to be force in Raqqa - each strongholds within the militants' crumbling self-proclaimed caliphate.
nonetheless, Talabany noted Islamic State was moving strat egies despite low morale and it could take three or 4 years to eliminate the community.
After defeat, Islamic State would wage an insurgency and resemble al-Qaeda on "steroids", he pointed out.
the future leaders of Islamic State had been expected to be intelligence officers who served below former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the men credited with devising the community's method.
Reporting via Michael Georgy; enhancing via Andrew Heavens
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