Few weeks in, seems he really is dead, especially if the suicide vest story was true. Or at least heavily injured if not. Whether you believe ISIS are authentic terrorists or not, what we can be almost sure is that this is not over yet.
Do we have a confirmation from ISIS side?
I want to see something like that in order to believe that he is really dead. I mean they haven't refused the Trump allegations but they haven't confirmed al-Baghdadi's dead as well.
I don't follow them so I don't know if they've already confirmed it but from what I observed from groups like this, they are usually slow to confirm deaths compared to how quick they are to take credit for attacks.
Though groups like this usually have an appointed successor, there often are some struggles between factions after the figurehead dies.
It seems like they are trying to elect their new leader so his death might be indirectly confirmed by them as well.
So sad that this terrorism organization is not eliminated after their leader's death. I hope they are going to be weaker at least.
The strength of ISIS came directly from economics, their seizing and operating oil wells. This in turn seemed to be "allowed" by Obama/Hillary. Quite curious, right?
Now they've lost all those, so they are very weak. And we're playing a shooting gallery.
I agree with this statement.
Oils have given a lot of money to ISIS. Also, they were funded by secret agencies and they were armed by them as well. I wonder if this will still continue to happen or not - if Trump is going to allow that, now that he claim that he removes the military forces from Syria.
