Who is ‘Caliph Ibrahim’ and How Dangerous is He?

To the United States, 43-year-old Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the leader of the jihadist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and a “specially designated global terrorist” with a $10 million bounty on his head.  To his followers, he is Caliph Ibrahim, the new leader of a global Muslim empire, the Islamic State. In an unannounced statement released to the media July 1, Baghdadi widely condemned the West and summoned all Muslims, especially those with military, medical,...

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