When Islamic State posted a video of Baghdadi addressing on 5 July a congregation from the pulpit of the grand mosque in Mosul, it set off a worldwide hunt to identify him. Photoanalysts found him very quickly, but in the most unexpected of places — talking animatedly to Senator John McCain at a secret meeting with five ‘moderate’ leaders of the FSA who had been specially assembled to meet him — at Idlib in Syria, on 27 May 2013. While this was before Baghdadi had started making a name for himself as an ultracon Islamist, it was, significantly enough, a month-and-a-half after he had changed the name of the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI) to the more ambitious Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 07:35:01 +0000
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