"Little is known about the new leader himself, but Schindler, senior director at Counter Extremism Project, and a former United Nations expert on jihadism, explained what the announcement means. 'Baghdadi, as a caliph should be, was making statements all the time: the result was he died. Qurashi was the exact opposite, not public at all, not communicating except with very few individuals... (but) the result is he died,' he said."