If Baghdadi were in Mosul and if he were killed, ISIS would fall. The Kurdish government's predictions are clear that it expressed its idea regarding the possible capture and killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which would - according to unconfirmed sources - be found in Mosul. The eastern suburbs of the city (Gogjali) have been liberated, and the commander of the Iraqi anti-terrorism, Talib Kanani, has declared that 'all the jihadists in the area have been eliminated'. There are no sources that can confirm the presence of the Caliph in the city, de facto capital of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, but the advance of Iraqi forces and Kurdish peshmerga is overwhelming jihiadist positions. The villages of Al Khafsan, Shalhoub, Bezrah and Munira were freed and Iraqi police forces stood at just 14 kilometers from the airport.
If the rumors about al-Baghdadi's presence prove to be well founded, the secret services could unleash a manhunt to eliminate the number one of Islamic terrorism. Trusting, finally, in the perspective that without a leader and driven by the advance of the Coalition, ISIS collapses on itself.
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