NOWHERE TO RUN ISIS terror chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi flees coup by his most trusted fighters as ‘caliphate’ faces annihilation
Two militants died in the attempt to wrest control from the fugitive warlord.
By Debbie White
8th February 2019, 9:50 am
Updated: 8th February 2019, 12:43 pm
THE shadowy leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is hiding in the desert after fleeing an attempted coup by fellow militants vying to control the terror group.
Al-Baghdadi – who has been reported killed or wounded on a number of occasions – is believed to have survived the firefight, according to a report.
Al-Baghdadi fled the scene of the coup attempt in Syria
Al-Baghdadi fled the scene of the coup attempt in Syria
The Guardian says the fugitive Isis leader managed to flee foreign fighters from his inner circle while in his eastern Syrian hideout, as his bodyguards shepherded him to safety in the nearby deserts.
ISIS is so keen to have the alleged coup leader, Abu Muath al-Jazairi, killed, that the extremist group has put a bounty on his head, The Guardian adds.
The clash reportedly occurred on January 10 in a village near Hajin, in the Euphrates River valley, where between 1,000 and 1,500 militants are believed to be living in a 20 sq mile area, near Syria’s border with Iraq.
It’s a far cry from the 34,000 sq miles of territory from western Syria to eastern Iraq the terror group once controlled.
They got wind of it just in time. There was a clash and two people were killed.
Intelligence official, Syria
Regional intelligence officials told the publication the exchange of fire between the militants during the attempted coup was a planned move to wrest control from Baghdadi.
Jazairi is described as a veteran foreign fighter, and a senior member of the terror group.
An intelligence official said: "They got wind of it just in time. There was a clash and two people were killed.
"This was the foreign fighter element, some of his most trusted people."
Hundreds of Isis fighters have surrendered and thousands of their relatives and other civilians fled eastern Syria in January.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8381500/isis-terror-chief-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-flees-coup-by-his-most-trusted-fighters-as-caliphate-faces-annihilation/The global protracted muslamic terrorist infighting has reached even up to its own center at ISIS. I say, keep it up. Then it will be the term of the Turkish muslamic caliphate.