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ISIS Head Is a Terrorist with Gang-Leader Charisma
(Washington Post) David Ignatius - A glimpse of the passionate loyalty inspired by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, comes in a recent video made by a 20-year-old Muslim recruit from Cardiff, Wales. "In a few days we will go to Iraq and will fight them and will even go to Lebanon and Jordan, wherever our sheik [Baghdadi] wants to send us. Send us, we are your sharp arrows. Throw us at your enemies, wherever they may be," pledges the young man to Baghdadi on the video. Baghdadi's ability to inspire such intense support worries U.S. officials. His fighters combine a fanatical passion with an unusual degree of organization, technical skill and tactical planning. Baghdadi is creating his own "emirate," guarded by tanks and heavy weapons, something bin Laden only dreamed of.