ISIS chief Baghdadi acknowledges defeat in Iraq in farewell speech


Cairo, Mar 2 (Agencies) : The ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has acknowledged the group's defeat in Iraq in a 'farewell speech' and ordered his non-Arab fighters to either return to their countries or detonate themselves, according to media reports.

Baghdadi, who had declared himself as Caliph, issued a statement titled 'farewell speech' which was distributed among ISIS' preachers and clerics yesterday, as Iraqi army tightened noose around the group's last remaining territory in Mosul, Al-Arabiya reported, quoting Iraqi TV network Alsumaria.

Citing the sources in the Iraqi governorate of Nineveh, the report said Baghdadi ordered the closure of the ISIS office regulating the group's fighters and asked the group's non-Arab fighters to either return to their countries or detonate themselves, promising them "72 women in heaven." Baghdadi, who has reportedly been wounded multiple times, carries a USD 10 million bounty on his head.

It is not clear if he is in the besieged city, where he declared his Caliphate in 2014 after the ISIS seized territory covering much of eastern Syria and northern Iraq.

Many of ISIS' leaders in Iraq have now fled towards the area controlled by the group in neighbouring Syria, it added. Iraqi forces backed by international and US aid launched a massive operation to retake Mosul on October 17. In January, they captured the eastern side of Mosul -- the last ISIS-held city in Iraq.

  

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  • Praveen, Udupi

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    Trump will triumph...Kill and massacre till the last ISIS is wiped out from this planet.

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  • Wilson DSouza, Moodbidri

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    Baghdadi promises non-Arab fighters "72 women in heaven." So it's clear now why youth from different countries were eager to join ISIS ...

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    Thanks to Modi & Trump for defeating ISIS ,,,

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  • Kalandar, Karnataka

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    Why USA, Nato could not catch and hang this Guy like they did with Saddam & Laden? Reason is, Saddam & Laden was enemy for USA and this Guy is a friend .?

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  • sadadand, Udupi / Mumbai

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    What an analysis from.... ?? !!!!

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  • John Tauro, M'luru / Kwt

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    This guy is being handled by Russia in order to save Syria’s Assad from toppling. The US is more interested in ousting Assad and bring in their own man as they did in Iraq. Finishing off Baghdadi is secondary to them. It is not a question of friend or enemy. So they are waiting for Russia to finish their job, namely eliminating Baghdadi.

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Suratkal/M'lore/Bahrain

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    After brain washing youths, raping innocent women, children and killing innocent civilians this Baghdadi acknowledged defeat. Farewell to Hell..!!

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  • Sadi, Mangalore

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    US claims that Bhagdadi killed in air strike and now is deferent news. Now i understood, how 570m Dollar spends to making terror videos by pentagon.

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