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The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s front group, took credit for the Dec. 8 suicide attacks in Baghdad that resulted in 127 Iraqis killed and more than 500 wounded. “Bastions of evil and dens of apostates” were the targets of the attacks, the terror group said in a statement released on he Internet.

Abu Omar Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq, advocated for continued attacks against US forces and called for members of the Awakening to rejoin the insurgency. “We tell them ‘Come back to your senses … Nothing better than repent and return to the ranks of jihadists and to leave the infidels,” […]

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.

The spokesman for the Iraqi Army™s Baghdad Operations Command presented television footage of the purported confession of the person the Iraqi government claims is Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq. The man presented said he joined al Qaeda in 2005 and was made the emir in 2006. Al […]

The Islamic State of Iraq released a 12 minute audiotape titled ‘Lying Agents’ by its leader Abu Omar al Baghdadi, who mocks the government for claiming he is detention. Baghdadi denigrated the Shia as liars, claimed his group’s attacks on Iranians forced Iran to close its border, and said his followers would achieve victory in […]

The Islamist State of Iraq denied its leader Abu Omar al Baghdadi was captured by Iraqi forces. Al Faloja, a jihadist website, claimed Baghdadi will release an audiotape. The government claimed Baghdadi’s real name is Ma™ad Ibrahim Muhammad.