Not Arab .. The Guardian reveals the new about Khalifa Al-Baghdadi

The British Guardian newspaper reported Monday - quoting intelligence sources - that the new leader of the Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi, is in fact one of the founders of the organization, and one of the leading ideological theorists, whose real name is Amir Muhammad Abd al-Rahman al-Mawla al-Salabi.

The organization announced - shortly after the killing of its leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in a US raid in Syria at the end of last October - the choice of a "new caliph for Muslims" was Hashemi al-Qurashi, but this name did not mean anything to many experts in the affairs of "jihadist" groups, to the extent that Some of them even questioned the possibility of him being a fictional character, while a senior US official said of him that he was "completely anonymous".

But the Guardian newspaper on Monday quoted officials in two intelligence agencies - whom you did not name - that the new leader of the Islamic State organization is the master, was a senior leader in the organization, and "one of his ideological theorists."

According to the newspaper, al-Mawla hails from the Turkoman minority in Iraq, making him one of the few non-Arab leaders in the organization.

Al-Mawla - who graduated (according to the same source) from the University of Mosul - had the upper hand in the "campaign of persecution" launched by the Islamic State against the Yazidi minority in Iraq in 2014.

For its part, the United States in August 2019 offered a financial reward of up to five million dollars for any information leading to Al-Mawla, who was then still a leader in the jihadi organization, but he was nevertheless a "potential successor to ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. "

According to the US government's "Rewards for Justice" website, Al-Mawla - who is also known as Haji Abdullah - was a "religious researcher in the previous organization of the state organization, Al Qaeda in Iraq, and rose steadily in the ranks to assume a major leadership role in the organization." .

As one of the largest ideologists in the Islamic State, Hajji Abdullah helped lead and justify the kidnapping, slaughter, and smuggling of the Yazidi religious minority in northwest Iraq, and it is believed that he oversees some of the group's global terrorist operations.

Last October, US President Donald Trump announced the killing of al-Baghdadi the previous night in a US raid northwest of Syria, a few kilometers from the border with Iraq.