Al Qaeda in Iraq

A man claiming to be Abu Omar al Baghdadi released an audiotape to Al Jazeera where he accused the Iraqi government of “outright lying” about his purported capture. Baghdadi claimed that his voice isn’t recorded by an actor and said his “name and face” is well known to jihadi leaders.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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