Daesh Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi under US Protection: Iraqi MP
TEHRAN (Basirat) : An Iraqi lawmaker said the leader of the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is currently protected by US forces in the Arab country’s western province of Anbar.
Baghdadi has chosen the province’s western desert areas as a safe haven for
himself, Hassan Salem said, according to the Arabic-language El-Nashra news
website.
The US military’s Ayn al-Asad Airbase provides all means to support
al-Baghdadi’s movements between Iraq and Syria, he stated.
The Iraqi parliamentarian went on to say that the Daesh leader is under full
protection of American troops in Anbar.
Daesh militants made swift advances in much of northern and western Iraq over
the summer of 2014, after capturing large swaths of northern Syria.
However, a combination of concentrated attacks by the Iraqi military and the
volunteer forces, who rushed to take arms after top Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Ali
al-Sistani issued a fatwa calling for the fight against the militants, blunted
the edge of Daesh offensive and later forced them to withdraw from the
territories they had occupied.
In November 2017, the self-proclaimed caliphate of Daesh collapsed after Syrian
and Iraqi armed forces and their allies managed to recapture the terror group’s
last strongholds in the two Arab countries
Source: Tasnim