Refuting US claim of the militant group Islamic State’s chief’s possible death or gravely injury, the man Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi came out with louder calls for violence.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Image: AFP
In its new audio message, Baghdadi called for defeating President Barack Obama’s plan to send more soldiers to Iraq and asked his followers to “erupt volcanoes of jihad everywhere.” The speech was soon got viral online with Arabic, English and Russian transcripts.
With his new speech, the rumour of his death or injury faded out and the movement is likely to get fiercer.
“O soldiers of the Islamic State, continue to harvest the soldiers,” Baghdadi urged, “Erupt volcanoes of jihad everywhere.”
“The agents of the Jews and crusaders, their slaves, tails and dogs,” Baghdadi said, “We see America and her allies stumbling between fear, weakness, inability and failure.”
Slamming Obama’s plan to deploy 1,500 additional soldiers to Iraq, Baghdadi said, “Here is Obama, who has ordered the deployment of 1,500 additional soldiers under the claim that they are advisers because the crusaders’ airstrikes and constant bombardment – day and night – upon the position of the Islamic State have not prevented its advance, nor weakened its resolve.”
Urging Muslims to join Islamic State, he said, “We ask every individual among them to join the closest unit to him, and to hear and obey the governor appointed by us for it…Soon – God willing – the vanguard of the Islamic State will reach you.”
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