By Jaime Ortega.
The leader of the Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was wounded in the air strike attack on Saturday launched by the US-led international coalition against the jihadist organization meeting of the Iraqi people in a border with Syria. This has been confirmed on Sunday by two Iraqi officials quoted on state television and the Ap.
An official of the Iraqi intelligence service has ensured that Islamic State informants have moved Al Baghdadi to a safe-haven, injured in the bombing which hit the Iraqi city of Al Qaim border with Syria, where it was held a meeting of the leaders of the group who proclaimed a caliphate somewhere between Syria and Iraq. A member of the Iraqi military, meanwhile, said that the leader of the IS has been hit by the attack.
Iraqi state television also reported the same story. None of the sources, however, has detailed the extent of the injuries presenting SI leader. The chain of Saudi Al Arabiya television said yesterday, citing tribal sources, Al-Baghdadi-the self proclaimed caliph of all Muslims would be in “critical condition”. News about the possibility that the leader of the IS have been victims of airstrikes have circulated several times in recent months.
United States without confirmation
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said yesterday in a statement late on Friday that carried out a series of air strikes on a convoy ten armored vehicles around Mosul could move SI leaders. “We can not confirm whether the IS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was present,” the CENTCOM spokesman Patrick Ryder.
Dozens of people were killed in the bombing, including the leader of the IS in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar and jihadist organization responsible for the Al Qaim, a strategic location on the route between the broad areas controlled by the IS Syria and Iraq.
Two Witnesses told Reuters yesterday that the attack was directed against a home that housed a meeting of senior IS members. According to Mohamed al Karbuli, a deputy of the province of Al Anbar, “the international coalition struck a meeting of the leaders of the IS Saturday afternoon, killing and wounding dozens of people.” The politician added that the fighters had reached IS nearby a hospital in panic and ordered his immediate evacuation to their wounded so he could be treated.
Al Baghdadi headed -for US offering a reward of $ 10 million (about 8 million) – has to date only one public appearance. It took place last July in a mosque in Mosul, Iraq’s second city in jihadist hands since June, five days after he was proclaimed the Caliphate. His organization, with a solid structure, has captured several tens of thousands of foreign fighters and consolidate administration in the territories of Syria and Iraq under his yoke
