Isis leader ‘seriously ill after being poisoned by assassin’

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Isis leader ‘seriously ill after being poisoned by assassin’

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis, is reportedly extremely ill after being poisoned.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

It’s suspected that meals served to Baghdadi and three other Isis commanders were poisoned by an assassin in the Be’aaj district, southwest of Nineveh, in Iraq.A source told Iraqi news agency WAA that the four ”˜have been transferred to an unknown location under strict measures’.They added that the terror group has now launched a campaign of arrests to try and find the person or persons responsible.
This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. On Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014, Iraqi officials and state television said al-Baghdadi has been wounded in an airstrike in western Iraq. An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press on Sunday that the strike happened early Saturday in the town of Qaim in Iraq's Anbar province. (AP Photo/Militant video, File)FILE -
It was falsely reported that he was killed earlier in the year (Picture: AP)
This is far from the first brush with death Baghdadi has had, however.Earlier in the year there were reports he had been killed by US-led coalition airstrikes ”“ however, these claims turned out to be false.He has also reportedly been wounded multiple times.Baghdadi is often credited with transforming Isis from a breakaway al-Qaeda group to an independent, highly feared terrorist organisation.The US currently has a $10million bounty on his head.

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