The Sun: ABU Bakr al-Baghdadi has risen from a shy, polite and talented schoolboy to being a mass killer with a $25 million bounty on his head
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"The 47-year-old has been seen for the first time in five years in a new video released by ISIS to prove that he is still alive. Some say he was already a militant when the US and its allies invaded Iraq. Baghdadi founded the Jamaat Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaah - Army of the People of the Sunna and Communal Solidarity), a militant Sunni group. He also became influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Counter Extremism Project says."
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April 30, 2019
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