ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared to be featured in a rare new video released Monday.
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared to be featured in a rare new video released Monday -- only his second ever -- to show he is alive by speaking about the recent fall of his group's stronghold in Baghouz, Syria, as well as praising the pre-Easter Sri Lanka terrorist bombings.
"This is part of the vengeance that awaits the Crusaders and their henchmen, Allah permitting. Praise be to Allah, among the dead were Americans and Europeans," he said. The elusive leader -- who declared himself"Caliph," or leader of all Muslims, in his only other video in July 2014 in a Mosul, Iraq, mosque -- carries a $25 million U.S. bounty on his head.
"It's impressive, given the amount of pressure he is under geographically, and also pretty interesting that his security apparatus can turn a video around so quickly without exposing him to airstrikes," Berger added. Baghdadi may have felt there was no more important time to prove his group's resilience and lethality, since President Donald Trump has boasted this month of obliterating the ISIS caliphate"100-percent" from its once enormous territory stretching over vast portions of northern Syria and Western Iraq.
U.S. special operations forces thought they had killed al-Baghdadi south of Raqqa in a compound obliterated by heavy bombardment in August 2017, but his death was never confirmed by DNA or other intelligence collection, an intelligence official told ABC News at the time. He then released an audio speech that September.
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