Ebu Bekir El-Bagdadi (Ebu Dua) Who is it?
Who is Ebu Bekir al-Bagdadi?
Ibrahim Avad Ibrahim al-Bedri, that is, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was born in Samarra, Iraq in 1971, as a child of a lower middle class family.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's family was known for his religious devotion and claimed that the tribe, which was part of the family, came from the line of Prophet Muhammad.
He was passionate about reading the Quran in Baghdad youth. It was also very important for young Baghdadi to observe the rules of sharia.
He chose the theology field for university education in Baghdad
University education, master's degree, doctorate period
In 1996, he graduated from the Islamic Studies Department of Baghdad University.
Later on, he completed his master's degree in 1999 and his doctorate in 2007 in the field of Koranic studies in Saddam Islamic Studies Universities.
Following the undergraduate study in Baghdad, in 2004, the period of Kadarki spent two spouses and six children in the Tobçe neighborhood of Baghdad.
A local camel was reading the Qur'an to the children of their neighborhood. He was also the star of the glass football team.
His uncle convinced Baghdadi to participate in the Muslim Brotherhood movement after his graduation.
Shortly thereafter, Baghdadi joined the small number of violent ultra-conservatives in the movement and adopted Salafi jihadism.
Rebellion from political activism
A few months after Iraq was occupied by forces in the US frontership in 2003, Baghdad helped to establish a rebel organization called Ceyh Ehl al-Sunni and al-Cemah.
In February 2004, US forces arrested Baghdad in the city of Fallujah and took it to the detention center in Bucca Camp for 10 months.
During the detention period, Baghdadi read himself an ad for the religious subjects, read the Friday sermon, prayed the prisoners and gave them lessons.
Established alliances among rival groups
According to one of the prisoners who stayed with him, Baghdad was able to operate among the rival groups in the detention house where the jihadists had been mixed with loyal people to Saddam.
Baghdadi formed alliances among the many groups there, and continued to communicate with them after being released in November 2004.
After his release, Baghdadi contacted the spokesperson of Iraqi al-Qaeda, the local foot of al-Qaeda, that Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was at the head.
Affected by Baghdadi's religious knowledge, the spokesman convinced him to go to Damascus to make Iraq's al-Qaeda's propaganda to adhere to the principles of ultra-conservative Islam.
In June 2006, Zarqawi was killed in a US air strike and replaced by Egyptian Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
In October of the same year, Masri distributed Iraqi Al Qaeda and established the Iraqi Islamic State (IID) organization. The group specifically continued to report al Qaeda affiliation.
New command of Iraqi Islamic State
Baghdadi rose steadily in the group with his ability in religious affairs and his ability to bridge the gap between the strangers who founded the Islamic State of Iraq and the local Iraqis who joined later.
At first, the organization became the manager of the Shariah Committee within the organization, and elected the 11-member Board of Trustees, who decided that the organization's commander was Ebu Omer El-Bagdadi.
Baghdad was later appointed as the Coordination Committee, and the group oversees the communications of its commanders in Iraq.
Establishment of the Nusra Front
Following the death of the Founder and his command in April 2010, the Board of Trustees selected new orders from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Baghdadi was set to rebuild the largely destroyed organization by special forces of the US military.
Baghdadi, who wants to take advantage of the turmoil in Syria in 2011, wants to secretly establish a branch of the Iraqi Islamic State in Syria, one of its members in Syria.
This organization will later be recognized by the public in the name of the Nusra Front.
Evolution of IID to ISID
Shortly after, Baghdad fell into dispute with Abu Muhammad al-Colani, leader of the Nusra Front.
The reason for this was that El-Colani did not want to cooperate with mainstream Sunni dissidents who were fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Baghdadi wanted to establish a state based on crude power before going after the Assad.
In the spring of 2013, Baghdad announced that the Nusra Front joined the Islamic State of Iraq and that the name of the emerging new organization was IŞİD.
Al Qaeda leader rebels against Zawahiri
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Baghdadi ordered the Nusra Front to maintain its independence. Bagdadi did not fulfill the order.
In February 2014, Zawahiri removed the ISID from Al Qaeda.
IŞID responded to this by clashing with the Nusra Front and consolidating the strength of Baghdadi's hard religious rules, which he held in the east of Syria.
After receiving the power of his warrant, he ordered the expansion of the Baghdadi men towards the west of Iraq.
Caliphate proclamation
In July 2014 ISIID captured Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq.
Shortly after that, Baghdad declared a "caliphate" and changed its name to "Islamic State".
The media have so far published various reports about the alleged death of Baghdad, but later it turned out that this information is not true.
But if Baghdad died, the organization; he would have lost a talented mediator, a brutal politician, a scholar of religion, and a person with noble roots - an unusual combination for a militant organization leader on a nearly state-built global level.
William McCants is the author of the book 'The Doomsday: The History, Strategy and Judgment Day of the Islamic State'. McCants administers the US Relations with the Islamic World Project at the Brookings Institution in the USA and teaches at John Hopkins University.
