Death of Daesh leader, major blow to Takfiri terrorist group: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Zayd al-Isa, a Middle East expert from London, to ask for his insight on reports over the potential death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in Syria and Iraq.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: What do you think, I mean, we’ve heard about different types of attacks or possibly Baghdadi being injured. How significant is it really that he is killed and he is sidelined? Will it make a difference in the whole movement of Daesh? Is it totally centered on him? Tell me how do you see this whole situation with Daesh and his importance or the lack there off?

Al-Isa: Let’s say that his death would be a severe blow a major setback to al-Qaeda in Iraq or ISIS (Daesh or ISIL), that’s what it’s called nowadays. He is basically irreplaceable to that terrorist organization and it would cause irreparable damage to the structure of the organization.

Let’s not forget that he is the top criminal who managed to couple together an alignment or an alliance between the secular Baathist or the Saddamist from the elite republican guard and the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein with the highly extremist radical and fundamentalist Takfiris who … actually make up the bulk of the new organization which is called nowadays the Islamic States which has basically established what it calls a new caliphate.

So, that’s why he is the mastermind behind it. He has kept it together and his loss would be, as I said, a tremendous blow to the whole organization. The whole organization, the ISIS, has been coming under intense and immense pressure particularly with the commencement of the bombardment from the new coalition.

The coalition, which is serious, which is genuinely seeking to demolish and destroy and take apart ISIS, that is a new coalition between Russia, between the Islamic Republic of Iran, between Iraq and between Syria. Because these are the countries which have been really genuinely at the forefront and spearheading the movement or the fight against the terrorist organization, while as if we compare that with the US so-called anti-ISIS coalition which actually incorporates or has at its odd the very countries that have revived and reinvigorated ISIS and have actually been at the forefront of backing up ISIS to the hell that is Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

And that’s according to and confirmed by the staunchest and closest allies that is the United States when Biden said that major problem or major force behind ISIS is the millions of dollars and actually tens of thousands of weapons that are sent out or pumped, restoring of arming, funding, logistical support, salaries by the Saudis and also by Turkey opening the door for all the Takfiri extremists to actually converge on Syria.

That is it has opened the door with the full support of Saudi Arabia to actually bring to life again and revive al-Qaeda in what that is ISIS. We must refigure that the Saudi strategy has actually in 2012 focused entirely on toppling the Syrian regime, which is what Biden said obsessively pursuing the aim of overthrowing the regime when they spectacularly failed, they widened the strategy, trying to break the backbone of Iraq, accusing Iraq of being the main emphatic supporter of the Syrian government.

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