When Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, in October 2019, during an American raid in northwestern Syria, the news made the “one” from all the international press. This media overexposure is explained by the planetary aura which had acquired at the head of the Islamic State organization (IS) the one who had proclaimed himself “Caliph”, in July 2014, in the Iraqi city of Mosul. His real name Ibrahim al-Badri, this Iraqi jihadist chose, for his pseudonym, to claim the first caliph of Islam, Abou Bakr, who had succeeded the Prophet Mohammed from 632 to 634, while claiming to be from ” de Baghdad “(al-Baghdadi), the capital founded in 762 by the most powerful of the dynasties of Arab Caliphs, the Abbasids. He who was only a modest imam of northern Iraq had also false a relationship with the Prophet of Islam, claiming to belong to the same Mecquoise tribe of the Qoraychites.
A faceless “caliph”
The elimination of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is all the more important since it is to this so-called “caliph” that the jihadists symbolically lent allegiance, especially before perpetrating bloody attacks in the Middle East or in Europe. By decapating Daesh, the Arabic acronym of “the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria”, Donald Trump can then declare the “victory” on the jihadist hydra, which lost, a few months earlier, his last territorial bastion, And this in the Euphrates valley. Baghdadi’s successor to this pseudo-califat is pompously called Abou Ibrahim al-Qurayshi (Qoraychite), but this fictitious genealogy badly hides the identity of Sabri al-Mawla, alias Abou Omar al-Turkmani, an Iraqi jihadist already Aguerri , of Turkmen origin. This time it was Joe Biden who announced, in February 2022, the death of the new EI chief in an American raid, once again in northwestern Syria. To amplify this military success, the Democratic president says that Mawla was “the driving force in the genocide of the Yezidi people in northwest Iraq in 2014”.
The successor of Abu Omar al-Turkmani naturally adorns himself with a prophetic ancestry, presenting himself as Abou Hassan al-Qurayshi (Qoraychite), which allows him to claim, too, the title of “Caliph “. It is in fact a jihadist veteran from the province of Anbar, west of Baghdad, called Nour Al-Mutni, and nicknamed Abou Abderrahmane al-Iraqi (Iraqi). He can, like his two predecessors, take advantage of the complicities that IS has with the Assad regime to cross the areas under government control from Iraq. But unlike the two so-called anterior “caliphs”, it is not northwest of Syria, but in the southwest that it finds refuge. It is there that he was eliminated, in mid-October, in the province of Deraa, the cradle of the Syrian Revolution in 2011.
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