Al Baghdadi, the Caliph from the seven lives – Middle East

The news of the killing of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in an American raid this night in northwestern Syria is the latest in a series on the death of the ISIS leader who helped make him a legendary figure.
Baghdadi, in the century Awwad al Badri, was born into a Sunni family in 1971 in Samarra, Iraq, a city symbol of Shiism, and grew up in Baghdad where it lived until 2004 with two wives and six children.
In 2003, during the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, Awwad, then thirty-two, formed an armed group and joined the jihadist groups. In 2004 it ends up in the hands of American soldiers and is imprisoned south of Baghdad. Once free, he approaches Al Qaida in Iraq, which becomes an 'Islamic State of Iraq'. On the death of chief Abu Omar al Baghdadi, on April 18, 2010, the leaders of the group nominated Awwad as the leader of Abu Bakr. A month later, on May 16, he announced the alliance with al Qaida, led by Ayman al Zawahiri. But shortly thereafter he begins to challenge the authority of the Egyptian doctor, successor to Bin Laden (killed in 2011).
With the worsening of the Syrian war in 2013 and the withdrawal of most of the Damascus government troops from the north and east of Syria, the men of Baghdadi easily climb the Euphrates and take Raqqa without a shot being fired, just as happened then with Mosul, the second city of Iraq, which fell in June 2014. Strong military successes still unexplained against armies described as the most powerful in the region, Baghdadi's credit that has now broken with al Qaida – and on which the US has meanwhile, put a millionaire bounty – conquers the hearts of thousands of young misfits of half the world in search of a reason to live and die. Then the definitive consecration with the famous sermon at the Mosul Mosque announcing the birth of the 'Islamic State'.
In that year, news began to spread about the death of the Caliph. On 10 November 2014, Iraq said that the jihadist leader was injured in an Iraqi air strike in Al Qaim, in the western province of Al Anbar, while the then Iraqi foreign minister, Ibrahim al Jaafari, went so far as to write on Twitter that Baghdadi had been killed. The Pentagon confirms that it hit a convoy of ISIS leaders near Mosul, but could not confirm the fate of Baghdadi.
Only six months later, in April 2015, a new announcement was released by Iranian and Iraqi media, and resumed from pan-Arab websites with little authority, according to which Baghdadi would have died in an Israeli hospital in the Golan Heights after being injured in an air raid. Also in 2015, the Iraqi government also announced that the Caliph was involved in a raid in Baghdad in the west of the country and that he was "taken away urgently", but without being able to specify if he had been injured. The next day, October 12, local medical sources reported that Baghdadi was neither among the injured nor the dead of the operation.
On 11 June 2016, Damascus state television reported that Baghdadi was killed in a raid on Raqqa the day before.
Then again the alleged death in a Russian raid on the same Syrian city in May, which Moscow states it cannot 100 percent confirm. Then the news clears. But in September of 2017 a new audio was released in which the Caliph cites his followers to continue the holy war.
In March 2019 the 007 Iraqis claim that the ISIS leader is hidden in the desert along the border between Syria and Iraq. The following month, for the first time in five years, Baghdadi appeared in an 18-minute video in which he spoke of the "war on the crusaders", but also of current issues such as the battle between Kurdish forces and jihadists in Baghuz, a stronghold of ISIS in Syria, fought at the end of March. Last September, the last signal: an audio entitled 'Act!' in which the head of the ISIS urges the jihadists to redouble their efforts in the field of preaching, media, military and security.