Iraqi Officials: US-Led Airstrikes Wounded ISIS Leader Baghdadi

Iraqi Officials: US-Led Airstrikes Wounded ISIS Leader Baghdadi

by AP and Michael B Kelly at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/iraqi-officials-us-led-airstrikes-wounded-isis-leader-baghdadi-2014-11

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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials said Sunday that an airstrike wounded the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Pentagon officials said they had no immediate information on such a strike or al-Baghdadi being wounded.

A key aide to the self-described "caliph" reportedly died in the attack.


Iraq's Defense and Interior Ministries issued statements saying al-Baghdadi had been wounded, without elaborating.

An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press that al-Baghdadi was hit during a meeting Saturday with militants in the town of Qaim in Iraq's western Anbar province. The official, citing informants within the militant group, said the strike wounded al-Baghdadi. A senior Iraqi military official also said he learned in operational meetings that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.




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