Morning Jolt: There’s a Rumor That ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi Is Dead . . . Again

Here's hoping.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed.

"(We have) confirmed information from leaders, including one of the first rank, in the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zor," the director of the British-based war monitoring group Rami Abdulrahman told Reuters.

Baghdadi's death had been announced many times before but the Observatory has a track record of credible reporting on Syria's civil war.

Abdulrahman said Observatory sources in Syria's eastern town of Deir al-Zor had been told by Islamic State sources that Baghdadi had died "but they did not specify when".

Yes, a lot of times, these rumors about an enemy leader's death turn out to be wishful thinking or mistaken identity, but, every once in a while, they pan out. The Taliban covered up the death of Mullah Omar for two ...

July 11 2017

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