BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – A top Iraqi official says the Daesh terrorist group’s leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is "alive” and is being treated in a field hospital in Syria, less than a year after sources announced the death of the notorious ringleader.
"We have irrefutable information and documents from sources within the terrorist organization that al-Baghdadi is still alive and hiding” in Jazira region, in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah, Iraqi government daily al-Sabah quoted Abu Ali al-Basri, the head of the Iraqi interior ministry’s intelligence and counter-terrorism operations service, as saying.
He further said that Baghdadi was suffering from "injuries, diabetes and fractures to the body and legs that prevent him from walking without assistance.” Basri added that the Daesh’s leader had sustained injuries in "air raids against” the group’s "strongholds in Iraq.”