{"id":2109,"date":"2015-04-28T21:20:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T21:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2015-04-28T21:20:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T21:20:45","slug":"isis-leader-al-baghdadi-unable-to-move-due-to-spinal-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/isis-leader-al-baghdadi-unable-to-move-due-to-spinal-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi unable to move due to spinal injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ISIS\u00a0leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi\u00a0who is said to have been wounded in a US-led coalition attack\u00a0is reportedly unable to move due to his injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cSources tell us Baghdadi is still alive, but still unable to move due to spinal injury sustained in the March airstrike,\u201d<\/em> the Business Insider website quoted Kareem Shaheen at The Guardian as saying in a Tuesday message posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another Guardian reporter also said according to his sources Baghdadi is not dead and is receiving treatment from doctors of Mosul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an earlier report, an unnamed source said that Baghdadi was hiding in the town of al-Ba\u2019aj in Iraq\u2019s northern Nineveh province, adding that he had chosen the place because he knew the US forces did not have much cover there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The source also confirmed that Baghdadi was seriously injured during a US-led coalition attack in March and noted even though his wounds were initially life threatening, he had slowly recovered from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe has not, however, resumed day-to-day control of the organization,\u201d the source stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report, however, has not been confirmed by US officials. \u201cWe have nothing to confirm this report,\u201d said a Pentagon spokesman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/04\/23\/407760\/ISIL-alSamarrai-alBaghdadi-Afri\">report<\/a> quoted Hisham al-Hashimi, an Iraqi government adviser, as saying that Abu Alaa Afri, the deputy of Baghdadi and a former physics teacher, has been appointed as the ISIS\u00a0temporary leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hashimi further said that Afri is more important than Baghdadi in the eyes of the group\u2019s leadership. Afri will assume leadership of ISIS if Baghdadi dies, he highlighted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ISIS launched an offensive in Iraq in June last year and took control of Mosul, the country\u2019s second-largest city, before sweeping through parts of the country\u2019s heartland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MR\/NN\/AS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISIS\u00a0leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi\u00a0who is said to have been wounded in a US-led coalition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[16,4,14,356,15,7],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-airstrike","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-middle-east","tag-militants","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ISIS-Abu-Bakr-Baghdadi.jpg?fit=670%2C354&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-y1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}