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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
IS chief said seriously wounded in strike
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIslamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was seriously wounded in a coalition airstrike in March, the Guardian reports, citing unnamed sources.
According to the report, al-Baghdadi’s life was initially in danger, but he has since been recovering. Due to his condition, al-Baghdadi is not currently making the organization’s day-to-day decisions.
A Western diplomat tells the newspaper the terror group’s leader was hurt in a March 18 airstrike on his convoy in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province.
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