{"id":236036,"date":"2019-10-28T23:33:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T03:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=236036"},"modified":"2025-01-14T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T15:35:03","slug":"intl-community-remains-cautious-after-is-leaders-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/28\/intl-community-remains-cautious-after-is-leaders-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Int&#8217;l community remains cautious after IS leader&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_236037\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236037\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/0-02-06-c72dcb4edffca536af9b5cea61eaeac2bc40e7657de887b6bf7f20fef975c464f4858420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-236037\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/0-02-06-c72dcb4edffca536af9b5cea61eaeac2bc40e7657de887b6bf7f20fef975c464f4858420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/0-02-06-c72dcb4edffca536af9b5cea61eaeac2bc40e7657de887b6bf7f20fef975c464f4858420.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/0-02-06-c72dcb4edffca536af9b5cea61eaeac2bc40e7657de887b6bf7f20fef975c464f4858420-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DNA test from the aftermath positively identified al-Baghdadi, said Trump. (File photo from Xinhua via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed in a US military operation in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the White House, Trump said US Special Operations Forces conducted a raid Saturday night targeting al-Baghdadi in northwest Syria, during which al-Baghdadi killed himself by igniting a suicide vest.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tadalista online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/tadalista.html\">https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/tadalista.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The DNA test from the aftermath positively identified al-Baghdadi, said Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank the nations of Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iraq. I also want to thank the Syrian Kurds for certain support they were able to give us.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy hydroxychloroquine online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/hydroxychloroquine.html\">https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/hydroxychloroquine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> This was a very, very dangerous mission,&#8221; Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Following Trump&#8217;s announcement, however, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that it doesn&#8217;t have reliable information regarding al-Baghdadi&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in the number of direct participants and countries that allegedly took part in this &#8220;operation,&#8221; each with completely contradictory details, gives rise to reasonable questions and doubts in its reality and success, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy arimidex online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/arimidex.html\">https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/arimidex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In response to Trump&#8217;s announcement, Iran&#8217;s Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi tweeted: &#8220;Not a big deal! You just killed your creature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, some US traditional allies welcomed the announcement of al-Baghdadi&#8217;s death while cautioning that the fight against terrorism is far from over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baghdadi: early retirement for a terrorist, but not for his organization,&#8221; French Defense Minister Florence Parly tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the death of Islamic State leader al-Baghdadi as &#8220;an important moment&#8221; but also warned that the fight against the IS &#8220;is not yet over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a report of the Washington Post, Javed Ali, a former White House senior director for counterterrorism, said al-Baghdadi&#8217;s death would be a &#8220;huge blow,&#8221; but the IS has proved resilient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His death will certainly have an impact on the terrorist group, but mostly it would be a symbolic and short-lived tactical victory in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group,&#8221; said Najib Khalaf, a political analyst and politics lecturer at Iraq&#8217;s al-Nahrain University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The elimination of the self-claimed caliph will not completely reduce the Islamic State&#8217;s threat, as both the Salafi jihadist ideology and the splintered remains of its organization will remain strong,&#8221; Iraqi political analyst Nadhum al-Jubouri told Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Jubouri told Xinhua that al-Baghdadi&#8217;s death &#8220;will reduce the morale of his elements, as many are expected to leave the group, but some who strongly follow the extremist ideology of the group believe that killing a person doesn&#8217;t mean to end their ideology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The analyst predicted that the battle against the organization would continue, warning &#8220;the militant group will focus on qualitative operations &#8230; to prove that the group is not finished by the death of its leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al-Baghdadi, 48, whose real name was Ibrahim Awad al-Badri, announced the establishment of a caliphate, or the so-called IS, in June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the US State of Department offered a reward of up to USD25 million for information leading to al-Baghdadi&#8217;s capture or death.<em><strong>\u00a0(Xinhua)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0&#8212; US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":236037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-xinhua","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284222,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236036\/revisions\/284222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}