The entire world watched as U.S. President Donald Trump declared the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on October 27, 2019 in a U.S. raid in northern Syria. Details of his cowardly escape and pathetic demise were received with trepidation by his followers and remaining fighters who realized that the leader they believed, trusted, and obeyed died whimpering, crying, and screaming. The self-appointed caliph of the obliterated so-called Islamic State refused to die alone, and when faced with the reality of an inevitable death, al-Baghdadi dragged three of his young children with him to a horrid end.
At a Sunday press conference at the White House, Trump said, “Last night the United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.” According to Trump, the terrorist leader died after detonating a suicide vest following a battle at an ISIS compound. Al-Baghdadi has been declared dead before, but the president said US officials are confident he is now actually dead due to the preliminary results of a DNA test conducted on the leader’s body. Trump said some other ISIS fighters were killed, and that an undisclosed number of adults and 11 children were captured by US forces.
Reports of a new ISIS leader quickly emerged, and set to succeed al-Baghdadi as leader of the terror group is believed to be Abdullah Qardash. He was chosen by Baghdadi in August to run the group’s “Muslim affairs,” according to ISIS’s official Amaq news outlet. He takes over ISIS at a time where the depleted group has little or no held territory but remains capable of inspiring horrific ‘lone wolf’ attacks across the world.
