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New Iraqi Al Qaeda leader doesn't exist?
[link|http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/18/africa/iraq.php|Internal Herald Tribune]
For more than a year, the leader of one the most notorious insurgent groups in Iraq was said to be a mysterious Iraqi named Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi.

As the titular head of the Islamic State in Iraq, an organization publicly backed by Al Qaeda, Baghdadi issued a steady stream of incendiary pronouncements. Despite claims by Iraqi officials that he had been killed in May, Baghdadi appeared to have persevered unscathed.

On Wednesday, a senior American military spokesman provided a new explanation for Baghdadi's ability to escape attack: He never existed.

Brigadier General Kevin Bergner, the chief American military spokesman, said the elusive Baghdadi was actually a fictional character whose audio-taped declarations were provided by an elderly actor named Abu Adullah al-Naima.

WTF? Somebody is pulling a serious deception here.

Given the US's recent history and the utter convenience of this for the US, I'm not inclined to blindly accept it. But I can dismiss it either, Al Qaeda is certainly capable of such a deception.

Jay
New They might be tweaking Al-Qaeda.
Challenging them to produce him, so to speak.

Wade.


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New al-Baghdadi sounds like "Uncle Sam" to me.
"You can call me Mr. Baghdad." :-/

Whether the person is/was real or not, it's almost certainly a pseudonym.

Cheers,
Scott.
     Iraqi Al Qaeda leader doesn't exist? - (JayMehaffey) - (2)
         They might be tweaking Al-Qaeda. - (static)
         al-Baghdadi sounds like "Uncle Sam" to me. - (Another Scott)

This is a self-referential LRPDism.
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