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Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi transformed himself from a little-known teacher of Koranic recitation into the self-proclaimed ruler of an entity that covered swaths of Syria and Iraq bloom.bg/2Nf0ZLv
Baghdadi, who was killed in a U.S. military operation in northern Syria, led a terrorist group that slaughtered thousands during a fearsome rise to power stopped only after an international military coalition was formed to bring it down bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
He “died like a dog. He died like a coward,” Trump said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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