Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, dies in 2019 after detonating a suicide vest after being besieged by US special forces.
Apart from being a head of most terrible Terrorist organization. Baghdadi was a serial rapist who kept several sex slaves as personal sex slaves. Baghdadi killed himself and two children on October 27, 2019, in Syria's northwestern Idlib Province, by detonating a suicide vest during the Barisha raid, which the US carried out with President Donald Trump's approval.
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