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ISIS fanatics in talks with al Qaeda about working together and creating a global terror army to strike fear into the heart of the West

Iraqi Vice President says thugs close to ISIS and Al Qaeda leaders have been in regular contact

    

        

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So-called ISIS caliph Bakr al Baghdadi declared himself leader in Mosul in 2014

ISIS and al Qaeda are in talks to form a joint terror force as Iraqi troops move in to liberate the city of Mosul from the jihadis’ grip.

Go-betweens acting for self-declared Islamic State “caliph” Bakr al Baghdadi have been speaking with thugs close to Ayman al Zawahiri, the head of al Qaeda.

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Mosul is on the verge of being liberated from ISIS thugs who are in talks with al Qaeda

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The tower of the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul, where Baghdadi declared himself caliph in 2014

 

ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi calls on jihadists to invade Turkey and slaughter infidels

ISIS split off from the militants formerly led by Bin Laden in 2014, and each group has been battling for recruits and funding ever since.
Al Qaeda had also criticised Islamic State's barbaric tactics and its brutal use of torture and execution videos as twisted propaganda.
But Iraqi Vice President Ayad Allawi has revealed that messages are being passed between the two evil leaders in an attempt to form a sick pact.

   

 

"There are discussions and dialogue between messengers representing Baghdadi and representing Zawahiri," he said. "The discussion has started now".

It is so far unclear how the two groups may work together, Allawi added.
After splitting from al Qaeda ISIS marauded across large swathes of northern Iraq in 2014, leaving the government reeling.
Baghdadi declared a caliphate over its territory from the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul the same year — another point of contention with its former terror allies.

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Baghdadi's followers have been in talks with al Quaeda in the hope of forming a joint terror force

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Civilians fleeing the rubble of Mosul, where a coalition is driving out ISIS militants

Last October, Iraqi security forces, Shi'ite volunteer fighters and a US-led foreign coalition teamed up to drive Islamic State from of Mosul and the areas surrounding the city.
The group has been pushed out of the half of Mosul that lies east of the Tigris River, but Iraqi soldiers and their allies are now bogged down in tough fighting in the narrow streets of the Old City.
Islamic State has used suicide bombers, snipers and armed drones to defend the territory under their control.
The group has also repeatedly targeted civilians or used them as human shields during the fighting, according to Iraqi and American security officials.

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Osama bin Laden with Ayman al-Zawahiri , right, who would go on to lead al Qaeda

Iraqi troops in dramatic machine gun battle with ISIS fighter in narrow alleys of Old City

While it has lost ground in Mosul, ISIS still controls the towns of Qaim, Hawija and Tal Afar in Iraq as well as Raqqa, their de-facto capital in Syria.
But Allawi warned that even if Islamic State loses its territory in Iraq it will not simply go away.
"I can't see ISIS disappearing into thin air," Allawi said.
"They will remain covertly in sleeping cells, spreading their venom all over the world."
(The Sun, UK)

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