Is ISIL leader wounded in airstrike?

Is ISIL leader wounded in airstrike?
Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:20:13

US cannot confirm reports that the commander of ISIL terrorist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed or injured in Iraq, a Pentagon official said Monday.

"We do not have any information to corroborate reports out of Iraq that Baghdadi has been either killed or wounded,"  Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, told a news conference. 

Initially, reports surfaced of the ISIL commander being wounded in an airstrike appeared on Saturday, and were followed by a confirmation by Iraqi government officials and Iraqi state television on Sunday.

US Central Command previously announced the airstrikes had destroyed a convoy of armed trucks after targeting a gathering of extremist leaders near the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. However, the Pentagon said it could not confirm whether al-Baghdadi was in the convoy.

Meanwhile the Iraqi Interior Ministry confirmed that the leader of ISIL, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was injured, and a number of the group's members were killed in air strikes carried out by the American lead international coalition.

ISIL spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani confirmed that al-Baghdadi was hurt, but said he was not killed.

Also twitter account claimed to belong to ISIL spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani confirmed Sunday that al-Baghdadi was hurt in US-led strike, but said he was not killed.

 

 

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