Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s death isn’t the end of Daesh but it is a significant blow against the terrorist organisation Opinion | Tallha Abdulrazaq
at the hands of US special forces have been flooding in since the early hours of this morning, with speculation rife as to how he was found, who provided the intelligence, and with unverified videos already circulating social media of the supposed aftermath of the US-led operation.
While this organisational efficiency and ideological zeal allowed Daesh to sweep across much of northern and western Iraq, leading to Baghdadi’s infamous announcement of the establishment of his short-livedfrom the pulpit of the now destroyed Grand al Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Daesh proved to be incapable at holding its territory.
Ultimately, however, not only were they outmanned, but they had no answer to the devastating airpower used by the United States and its coalition partners that sadly also led to theIt is likely that Daesh command, first in Iraq and then in Syria, decided to revert back to the Al Qaeda model of decentralisation as a survival mechanism.
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