Hajji Bakr

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Samir Abed Mohammed al-Chleifawi , also ... Khleifawi ( Arabic سمير عبد محمد الخليفاوي; † January 2014 in Tall Rifaat , Syria ), better known under the battle name Haji Bakr ( Arabic حجي بكر, DMG Ḥaǧǧī Bakr ; also found as Haji Bakr and internationally Haji Bakr ), was a former Iraqi military officer and from 2010 to 2014 the chief strategist of the Islamic State terrorist militia .

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Hajji Bakr was a Colonel of the Iraqi Air Defense Service of Saddam Hussein . He lost his position after the US occupation in 2003. In 2004, he joined the predecessor organization of IS in Iraq. In 2010 he helped bring Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to the helm of IS. In 2012, Hajji Bakr went to Syria.

Hajji Bakr was the strategic head of the rebel group "Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant" (ISIS). Officially, he acted as head of the ISIS military council and was al-Baghdadi's top (deputy) representative in Syria. However, documents found in his home after his death appear to prove that he and former intelligence officer comrades were the actual leaders behind al-Baghdadi and that Hajji Bakr was the one who made the meticulously detailed plans for the conquests and territorial administration in Syria and Iraq designed by ISIS.

Hajji Bakr drew up plans for the takeover; Espionage cells, disguised as Islamic mission offices, were to be set up in all villages and towns and later also carry out murders and kidnappings. This strategy was successfully implemented by the terrorist organization. An Iraqi journalist reported that Hajji Bakr was “absolutely not an Islamist” but a “highly intelligent and excellent logistician”.

In January 2014, Hajji Bakr was killed by the Shiite rebels.

In 2014, his family was released by the Syrian rebel group Liwa at-Tauhid in exchange for Turkish hostages.

biography

During the Ba'ath regime

Prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein, Hajji Bakr was a colonel in the Iraqi army who had been a weapon development officer and served in the intelligence services of Saddam's air defense corps. According to Hisham al-Hashimi , an Iraqi journalist whose cousin served with Hajji Bakr, he was stationed at the military airport in al-Habbaniyah for a while . According to the Iraqi intelligence service, he joined al-Qaeda in Iraq and participated in the Iraqi uprising .

After the invasion of Iraq

Imprisoned by American troops, Hajji Bakr was held in custody at Camp Bucca , alongside men who would later form the top leadership of ISIS, including Abu Muslim al-Turkmani , Abu Abdulrahman al Bilawi and the future leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

After his release, he became a senior leader in the Islamic State in Iraq and headed the group's military council after the killing of Supreme Commanders Abu Abdullah ar-Rashid al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri by US forces in 2010. Hajji Bakr played played an influential role in deciding in favor of al-Baghdadi as the next ISIS leader and organized an internal purge, which was accompanied by numerous murders, to consolidate al-Baghdadi's power over the group.

Hajji Bakr was killed in early January 2014 in the northern Syrian city ​​of Tall Rifaat by members of the Syrian Martyrs Brigades , who were unaware of its importance, at the time of the conflict between ISIS and other Syrian rebel groups. After Hajji Bakr's death, Abu Abdulrahman al Bilawi rose to head the ISIS military council. Al-Bilawi (1971-2014) was also a former captain in the army and was replaced in this position on the ISIS military council by yet another former officer from Saddam's army, Colonel Abu Ayman al-Iraqi .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christoph Reuter: Terror mastermind Haji Bakr: The spy leader of the "Islamic State" Spiegel Online, April 19, 2015
  2. ↑ IS and the long shadow of Saddam. In: news.orf.at. April 21, 2015, accessed October 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ chz: Internal paper from Turkey: Secret service warns: "We no longer have IS under control". In: Focus Online . September 23, 2014, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria: A Primer . The Soufan Group. June 13, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  5. ^ A b Key Al-Qaeda Militant Reportedly Killed in Syria , Yahoo. January 27, 2014. Accessed January 1, 2016. 
  6. ↑ Who runs the militant group Islamic State? . Reuters. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  7. ↑ Exclusive: Top ISIS leaders revealed . Al Arabiya. February 13, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ Deadly revenge of Saddam's henchmen . The Times. June 14, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  9. ↑ a b ISIS confirms death of senior leader in Syria . In: Long War Journal , February 5, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2014. 
  10. ↑ Christoph Reuter: The Terror Strategist: Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State . In: Der Spiegel , April 18, 2015. 
  11. ^ Military Skill and Terrorist Technique Fuel Success of ISIS . In: New York Times , August 27, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2014. 
personal data
SURNAME Bakr, Hajji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samir Abed al-Mohammed al-Khleifawi (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi military officer and the chief strategist of the terrorist group ISIS (2010-2014)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH January 2014
Place of death Tall Rifaat , Syria