Thursday, November 17, 2016

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, "Became Taut Nerves," According To Private Reports


Letter he wrote in early November 2016 confidential informant inside the city in contact with the organization said although not a member of it for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the organization of the Islamic state "has become taut nerves."


The letter added that al-Baghdadi "tempered his movements and neglected appearance even elegance Baghdadi changed. Was very interested in appearance but no longer the case.

"Long live underground tunnels and has spread to other areas not sleep without his belt, so he can use it if he was arrested."

The text message seen by Reuters one of several letters describing what is happening inside the Islamic state at a time when Iraqi and Kurdish and American forces began their campaign to recover the city of Mosul, a stronghold of the organization in northern Iraq.

And paint those letters and interviews with senior Kurdish officials and fighters of the organization and signed in captivity recently detailed picture of unusually extremist group and the state of mind of the leader, in what could be the last stand for them in Iraq.

The messages describe the group and its leader still enjoy the ability to lethality and Eetmllekema at the same time a growing feeling of mistrust.

She said that the execution of letters of trying to escape or become informants happens regularly. Al-Baghdadi became the self-proclaimed successor to the vast area of ​​Iraq and Syria, two in particular those who are suspicious about it before.

According to one of the messages "Frankly Baghdadi behavior is very suspicious and skeptical closest people to him. Amazhna was in the past, but today is not joking with anybody."

Reuters was able to verify the identity of the informant, which correspond with the Iraqi military intelligence, but she could not be sure of the independent sources of health information contained in his letters.




But the picture that emerges messages consistent with the intelligence relied upon by the two Kurdish officials are pleased with Barzani, president of the Security Council of the Government of the Kurdistan region, Talabani and Lahore head of counter-terrorism operations and director of the Intelligence Agency Region.

Talabani said the heads of the other intelligence agencies that the military alliance is making slow progress, though steady in the face of the Islamic state.

They said the alliance enormous potential into the connector which detectives are trained and some residents who carry out surveillance operations more simply by sending text messages or over the phone from the outskirts of the city. Some informants families in the Kurdistan region government paid her money.

Kurds believe that a military attack on Mosul, which began on 17th October feeds the feeling of fear and distrust with the regulation.

They said that the acquisition of the idea of ​​eliminating all those who might betray the group may contribute in the short term to stimulate the fighters to defend Mosul. But this acquisition also means that the group Anglguet itself at a time when it is facing the most serious threat to its existence in Iraq since the control of about a third of Iraqi territory in the summer of 2014.

Karim Singari Interior Minister Qaim, said Acting Minister of Defence under the control of the Kurds in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region said the number of executions is a clear sign that the organization is starting to feel the pinch of pressure.

He also said that many of the local Iraqi fighters in the ranks of organized forces lacking what the jihadists of strong faith martyrdom.

He Singari "Most of the suicide bombers who fight to the death are foreign fighters but their number is on the fronts less than the former because they are being killed in the fighting and in suicide operations."

Barzani said that the distrust growing pay-Baghdadi and his top commanders to the frequent movement which negatively affects another on the ability of the organization to defend the city.

Barzani said that al-Baghdadi, "all the different methods to hide and protect itself uses Wegger positions and uses different means to move and live in different locations and using different means of communication."

Kurdish officials said that if the Islamic state out of Mosul, the military alliance, it is likely that the group resorted to Syria, where he will be a constant threat to Iraq through repeated suicide attacks and other guerrilla tactics.

* Slide Phone risk

The suspicion is always a feature of the Islamic state attributes. The rule of the organization in Syria and Iraq have been adopted in large part on a vast network of intelligence that everyone from children to use Baathist officers
Former who acquired combat expertise to spy on citizens of organization and responsibility.




It seems that this distrust reached new levels with the progress of the enemies of the organization. It has a growing sense of mistrust before the government forces begin siege of Mosul in mid-October.

Residents in Mosul, Iraqi security officials said the group's leaders revealed early last month an internal conspiracy against the al-Baghdadi. The plot was hatched by a senior leader in the Islamic state when a security official found the organization on a slide phone conspirators included the names of frustration and explained their prayers officers in the US intelligence
And Kurdish.

Residents said Iraqi officials that the punishment was brutal as the organization executed 58 people held suspicions about their involvement in the plot and then placing them in cages and dumped.

He said Iraqi intelligence officers in the organization executed since then 42 other people from the local tribes after they were caught with their phones slices.

Residents in areas under the control of the regulatory regions that owning a slice phone now, or any other means of electronic communication means an automatic death sentence. The organization has set up security checkpoints where people are looking for the gunmen and regularly raid the areas bombed by US air strikes because organization officials assume that the locals had helped in setting goals.

And realizes detective who sent text messages from Mosul those risks. Was one of the messages recently began by saying, "I speak with you from now on the surface of aircraft in the sky .. what was revealed that even canceled text messages and hide the phone segment."

* "Cubs caliphate"

The organization of the Islamic state relies on a network of informants children often imprecisely called "cubs succession."

Hisham al-Hashimi of the Iraqi government adviser and expert in organization affairs, said, "These cubs succession boys were listening and collecting information from the other children from their parents and their brothers and their movements. In every street there are one or two of those who are spying on the adults."

He says Lahore Talabani, who leads the fight against terrorism in the Kurdistan Regional Government that the huge network of informers also harm the Islamic state. And the large amount of information contained specialty group a large part of its energy for those who are subject to the rule rather than enemies. This is what feeds the sense of mistrust in turn.

Talabani told Reuters: "conspiracies (internal) Baghdadi frequent. We are witnessing events of this kind almost every week they spend on their men."




He added that until a few months ago it was a secret agent in the inner circle of al-Baghdadi, leader of the work in the organization, he belonged by al-Qaeda. He continued using the common name of the organization "was a Kurd born in Hawija, and was one of the detainees have. Released him a year before the arrival of Daesh."

After the fall of Mosul in the hands of organized infiltration of the leader who became an agent in its ranks and became a military officer. And he began posing feeds Kurds "daily with valuable information."

The client told Talabani said al-Baghdadi, consult with his top aides, including Saudis said they Almtvgahan of the Islamic Sharia. The Saudi Arabia has announced the presence of Saudi nationals in the ranks of the organization.

Talabani said, "I have been informed that al-Baghdadi, his prestige and his contacts that interface and committees around him to take major decisions even on the military level."

He added that the client told him that he had met Balbgdada a couple of times and he was planning to assassinate the leader of the organization. However, the organization discovered that the client before they can act, and Talabani said that the organization publicly executed a few months ago.

* Slaughter

In a rare encounter recounted two of the Islamic State fighters signed in captivity last week's brutal methods used by the organization.

Reuters has met Balatnin in Kurdish compound to combat terrorism in the city of Sulaymaniyah. An official from the Kurdish intelligence officer and attended the questioning of the interviews but did not any say.

Signed Qahtan Ali, 21, was in captivity after five Kurdish guerrillas had been killed in a police station fell into the hands of the organization in the northern city of Hawija.

Qahtan said the march towards extremism began at the age of thirteen. He has become a member of al-Qaeda and then joined the Islamic State, when accompanied by a friend to attend religious lessons and to participate in military training at a mosque Bahoijh.




He said the training included learning to use machine guns and pistols. The trainees learned how to slaughter people using a knife Kalashnikov.

Qahtan said that the prince locally ordered a year ago to cut the throats of five Kurdish fighters. He added that the prince remained standing behind him, which leads those
the mission.

"I slaughtered five people placidly Kalashnikov. What you feel something. Then I came back to the house and cleaned myself and then I sat down for dinner with my family."

Qahtan He added that he is no longer one of its fighters speaks for control of Baghdad, but they are focusing on Mosul alone and how to recruit more fighters to defend it.

A second detainee Salah Baker Baker, 21, who was captured as he prepares to carry out a suicide attack in Kurdistan The organization initially tried to recruit him through Facebook to participate in the fighting in Mosul.
 He pointed out that the organization in dire need of Iraqi fighters because the torrent of foreign fighters cut off after Turkey closed its border a year ago gradually.


* Battle

Iraqi intelligence officials say they believe that al-Baghdadi in Mosul but not in the district of Al-Baaj, a nomadic area on the outskirts of Nineveh province bordering Syria. The number of Baaj population of about 20 thousand people and is dominated by Islamic extremists loyal to the state.

The area is heavily guarded and fortified by a large long tunnels built after the fall of Saddam Hussein, when the town became the starting point for the smuggling of weapons and volunteers from Syria to Iraq points.

Talabani said that even if Mosul and al-Baghdadi fell it is likely to continue activity regulation. "We will come back again to the non-traditional methods of warfare and we will see suicide bombings inside the Kurdistan region and inside Iraq's cities and others."

Barzani agreed with his view, he said the "war on the Islamic state would be a long war. Not on the military level alone, but on the economic and ideological levels."




He estimated Barzani, son of the veteran Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, president of the region, the number of suicide bombers who promise them the organization in Iraq and Syria is about ten thousand. He said the organization is equipped waves of fighters based at present deployed for the defense of Mosul.

"I see the first group up to the front line, knowing that the fate of murder by aircraft flying overhead, but they come though. Then the second group come to the same place where others are beaten.

"I saw body parts and corpses all over the place and they know they will die. However they come. They see victory in dying for their cause."

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