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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on September 29, 2017, 02:17:04 am

Title: Baghdadi reemerges with new speech calling on followers to be patient and strong
Post by: TomSea on September 29, 2017, 02:17:04 am
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Baghdadi reemerges with new speech calling on followers to be patient and strong
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Thursday, 28 September 2017

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has re-emerged in a new voice recording released on social media on Thursday calling his followers to be “patient and strong”.

The 46-minute sermon by al-Baghdadi published on Youtube and the Telegram app called for his followers to rally to not “allow lives lost in Mosul, Sirte, Raqqa, and Hama be lost in vain”.

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References in the speech made to North Korea threatening America and Japan with nuclear power indicate that the speech was recent. Also other references about the Astana conference held earlier this month in Kazakhstan were made.

Continued: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2017/09/28/Baghdadi-remerges-with-new-speech-calling-on-followers-to-be-patient-and-strong-.html