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Podcast: The Scalpel With Dr. Keith Rose
Episode: #53 Double Standard, Single objective: Welcome to the Insurgency
Description: Mugshot of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by US armed forces while in detention at Camp Bucca in 2004 From 2013 to 2019, ISIL was headed and run by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State's self-styled Caliph. Before their deaths, he had two deputy leaders, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani for Iraq and Abu Ali al-Anbari (also known as Abu Ala al-Afri)[181] for Syria, both ethnic Turkmen. Advising al-Baghdadi is a cabinet of senior leaders, while its operations in Iraq and Syria are controlled by local 'emirs,' who head semi-autonomous groups which the Islamic State refers to as its provinces.[182][183] Beneath the leaders are councils on...