Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi planning to organize ISIS in western Iraq

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has entered Western Iraq to reorganize the terrorist group there amid contradictory reports on his fate, media reports said.

Al-Baghdadi, accompanied by a number of his senior commanders, has arrived in al-Hasiniat region in Al-Anbar desert, the Arabic-language Baghdad al-Youm news website quoted an intel source as saying.

The source noted that al-Baghdadi is trying to reorganize the ISIS terrorist group by utilizing al-Anbar desert and turning it into ISIS's new base.

Meantime, strategic expert Hesham al-Hashemi told Baghdad l-Youm that al-Baghdadi is in a region in Raveh Island or West of al-Sarsar in al-Anbar province.

In a relevant development on Saturday, Iraqi sources revealed that the US wants to occupy the Western parts of the country with the help of the ISIS terrorists after transferring them from Eastern Syria to its bases in the region.

Mohammad al-Baldawi, the representative of al-Bana coalition in the Iraqi parliament, told the Arabic-language al-Ma'aloumeh news website that the US forces have transferred all terrorists and their family members, who have recently surrendered at the Syrian borders, to the US bases in Iraq.

He referred to collaboration between the US and the ISIS terrorists, and warned that the terrorist group will be reorganized for operations against Iraq's security.

Meantime, Qusai al-Anbari, the head of Badr organization's office, said that the ISIS militants have been sheltered in the US military bases and the desert areas near these bases, adding that all terrorist operations in al-Anbar are conducted with Americans' direct supervision.

He added that the US forces stationed in al-Anbar want to pave the ground for the ISIS to occupy certain cities and areas in the region.

In relevant remarks earlier this month, Iraq's security experts disclosed that the US Army was training ISIS terrorists in Al-Anbar province after relocating them from Syria to Iraq to prepare them for creating insecurity in the country.

"The US Army troops are preparing and training the ISIS militants in al-Qadaf and Wadi al-Houran regions of Al-Anbar province with the aim of carrying out terrorist attacks and restarting insecurity in Iraq," al-Ma'aloumeh quoted Kazim al-Haaj, an Iraqi security expert, as saying.

He noted that according to the intel obtained from Iraqi security forces in Al-Anbar province, the US had transferred the ISIS terrorists on Apache and Chinook helicopters to Iraq.

Pointing to the occupation of several regions in Western Iraq, including Wadi al-Houran and al-Qadaf, al-Haaj reiterated that the US Army was using this opportunity to deploy the ISIS terrorists after training them in areas where it plans to make hot.

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