ISIL chief vies with Qaeda's Zawahiri

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https://s3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/bVb8RDBM_5dmhJy6yEjSfg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-AE_XE/News/AFPMideastEN/f2b2c39aee89a7833632905d6c9c986088f2d2da.jpg (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/isil-chief-vies-qaedas-zawahiri-120306789.html)The shadowy leader of thousands of Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq, many of them Westerners, appears to be surpassing Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri as the world's most influential jihadist. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant -- k**wn for its ruthless tactics and suicide bombers -- is arguably the most capable force fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and has even held control of a major Iraqi city for the past five months, in tandem with other groups. Western governments fear it could eventually emulate Al-Qaeda and strike overseas, but their biggest worry for **w is likely the eventual return home of foreign fighters attracted by ISIL and Baghdadi. Among them are men like Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old Frenchman who allegedly carried out a deadly shooting on a Jewish museum in Belgium last month after spending a year fighting with ISIL in Syria.




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