ISIS Leader Baghdadi Probably Not in Targeted Convoy, Say Iraqi Security Officials
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was probably not in a convoy hit by air strikes near the Syrian border on Sunday, senior Iraqi security officials said on Monday.
Iraq’s military had said that the reclusive Baghdadi was taken away in a car after the assault on his entourage in a town near the Syrian border.
But one of the senior security officials said preliminary information now indicated the convoy actually carried lower ranking Islamic State figures, led by Abu Saad al-Karbouli, a senior local Islamic State policeman.
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