On Thursday2015/1/29, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi attacked Taliban leader Mullah Omar, describing him as “demented” and “an ignorant prince of war.”
An Afghan website quoted Baghdadi, in a statement shared by websites belonging to the ISIS organization, as saying, “Mullah Omar does not deserve any spiritual or political credibility,” noting that, “The organization has achieved in two years what Taliban could not achieve in its campaign in ten years.”
The statements come amid growing concern about the impact of the ISIS organization in Afghanistan and Pakistan after the emergence of a videotape during last week in which leaders claimed that they are from Afghanistan and Pakistan and pledged support for ISIS.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or Abu Du'a (ʾabū duʿāʾ) alternatively calledAbu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Al-Husseini Al-Qurashi , ʾabū bakri l-baḡdādī l-ḥusaynī l-hāšimī l-qurašī) and known to his supporters as Amir al-Mu'minin, Caliph Ibrahim ḵalīfatu ʾibrāhīm) born as Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri is emir, proclaimed as the so-called Caliph, of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an Islamic extremist group in western Iraq and Syria, self-proclaimed as the "Islamic State".
On 4 October 2011, the US State Department listed al-Baghdadi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and announced a reward of up to US$10 million for information leading to his capture or death. Only the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, merits a larger reward (US$25 million)
