{"id":1013,"date":"2019-10-30T18:55:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2019-10-30T19:52:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:52:48","slug":"report-isis-may-have-a-new-leader-but-terror-group-facing-internal-strife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: ISIS MAY HAVE A NEW LEADER BUT TERROR GROUP FACING INTERNAL STRIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201d This know also, that in the last days
perilous 5467: <\/font> chalepos, khal-ep-os\u00b4; perhaps from 5465 through the idea of reducing the strength; difficult, i.e. dangerous, or (by implication) furious: \u2014 fierce, perilous.]=<\/span><\/div> times shall come.\" \u2014 2Timothy 3:1<\/blockquote><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201dFor we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against\n\n
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powers 1849: <\/font>exousia, ex-oo-see\u00b4-ah; from 1832 (in the sense of ability); privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence: \u2014 authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength<\/span><\/div>, against the\n
rulers 2888: <\/font> kosmokrator, kos-mok-fat\u00b4-ore; from 2889 and 2902; a world-ruler, an epithet of Satan: \u2014 ruler.<\/span><\/div> of the \n
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world 165: <\/font> aion, ahee-ohn\u00b4; from the same as 104; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity (also past); by implication, the world; specially (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future): \u2014 age, course, eternal, (for) ever(-more), (n-)ever, (beginning of the , while the) world (began, without end). Compare 5550.<\/span><\/div>, against\n
spiritual 4152: <\/font> pneumatikos, pnyoo-mat-ik-os\u00b4; from 4151; non-carnal, i.e. (humanly) ethereal (as opposed to gross), or (daemoniacally) a spirit (concretely), or (divinely) supernatural, regenerate, religious: \u2014 spiritual. Compare 5591.<\/span><\/div> \n
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The Islamic State may already have a new leader,\u00a0Newsweek reports<\/a>, less than a day after the head of the group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed by United States Special Forces at a compound in Syria, but the group itself may be crumbling, in part due to lack of agreement on direction.<\/p>\n\n

According to Newsweek\u2019s source \u2014 \u201cone regional intelligence official asking not to be identified by name or nation\u201d \u2014 Abdullah Qardash, the group\u2019s director of \u201cMuslim affairs\u201d will take al-Baghdadi\u2019s place as the leader and figurehead of the Islamic State and the so-called \u201cCaliphate.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

ISIS\u2019s public relations arm released the news last night in a statement that also served as a tacit admission that their leader, al-Baghdadi, had indeed been killed in a raid on his temporary safe house near Barisha. The group also admitted that its lead spokesperson, Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir, was also dead.<\/p>\n\n

Supposedly \u201clittle is known\u201d abot Qardash (including how, precisely, to spell his name), other than that Qardash is a \u201cformer Iraqi military officer who once served under late leader Saddam Hussein\u201d and was handpicked by al-Baghdadi as his own successor, after appointing him to the role of ISIS\u2019s \u201coutreach director\u201d to the Muslim world.<\/p>\n\n

But Newsweek\u2019s report also indicates that ISIS may be on its last legs, in part because of defeats suffered at the hands of American and allied forces in Iraq and Syria, and also because of internal disagreement. Although Qardash was al-Baghdadi\u2019s choice to run the terror network if al-Baghdadi was killed, his elevation to a key role within the ISIS heirarchy was never officially approved by the group as a whole, and his leadership will likely be in question.<\/p>\n\n

Newsweek, of course, like many other media outlets, also downplayed al-Baghdadi\u2019s current role within ISIS, calling him a \u201csymbolic\u201d leader who wasn\u2019t involved in the group\u2019s day-to-day operations, other than to give the occasional \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d to a major operation.<\/p>\n\n

That may, however, be a function of ISIS\u2019s demise as a whole. Although President Donald Trump was widely mocked for suggesting that ISIS had been \u201cdefeated\u201d in Iraq and Syria, news reports from across the globe seem to pinpoint February of 2019 as ISIS\u2019s last stand.<\/p>\n\n

At the time,\u00a0CBS News<\/a>\u00a0claimed the group had been reduced to controlling little more than a quarter square mile in Syria, and that \u201chundreds\u201d of ISIS fighters and 1,500 civilian tagalongs (including wives, children, servants, and slaves), had fled the group, indicating that the once-powerful radical Islamic terror organization was in its final days. The group was driven out of Iraq in 2017.<\/p>\n\n

Regardless of importance, however, the U.S. saw al-Baghdadi as a top target in the war on terror, particularly for his involvement in forming and leading ISIS during its rein of terror across the Middle East. Al-Baghdadi presided over more than 2,000 murders, and was known to have a predeliction for beheadings and rapes. Under al-Baghdadi\u2019s leadership, ISIS became a presence in at least 30 countries and terrorized, tortured, and enslaved thousands.<\/p>\n\n

SpirAl-Baghdadi was killed in a raid on his secret location in Syria sometime late Saturday, Washington, D.C., time.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Newsweek\u2019s source \u2014 \u201cone regional intelligence official asking not to be identified by name or nation\u201d \u2014 Abdullah Qardash, the group\u2019s director of \u201cMuslim affairs\u201d will take al-Baghdadi\u2019s place as the leader and figurehead of the Islamic State and the so-called \u201cCaliphate.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-perilous-times","category-spiritual-wickedness","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}