Rumor has it that the head of the Islamic State (Isis), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, continues to be disabled as a result of supposed spinal damage and is being taken care of by 2 doctors who go to his hideout from the group’s refuge of Mosul, news outlets report.

More than 2 months after being seriously injured in a US air strike in north-western Iraq, the self-proclaimed caliph is yet to continue control of the terror organisation that has been storming through Iraq and Syria since June this past year. 3 sources in close proximity to Isis have verified that Baghdadi’s injuries could suggest he will never ever again direct the organisation.

Isis is currently being directed by a long-term more mature official, Abu Alaa al-Afri, who had been assigned deputy leader when his predecessor was wiped out by an air strike late this previous year.

Specifics of Baghdadi’s situation, and of the doctors dealing with him, have surfaced since news media like News Max, JNS, and the Guardian exposed he had been critically wounded on 18 March in an air strike that killed 3 men he was travelling together with. The assault took place in al-Baaj, 80 miles (128km) west of Mosul.

The Pentagon consequently dismissed that Baghdadi had been killed and, although it admitted that it had carried out the assault, believed to be ignorant that the world’s most hunted man had been amid the casualties.

Sources inside Mosul, who declined to be named, stated a female radiologist from a primary Mosul medical center and a male surgeon had handled Baghdadi. Each, along with their extended families, are solid ideological followers of the group.

“The women’s sons work in the hospital,” stated one Mosul citizen with information of Baghdadi’s injuries. “They dress like Kandaharis and even carry guns inside. Both are on the regional health board.

“The man is not a renowned surgeon, but he is absolutely with them [Isis]. His daughter married a Salafist and said she was going to have as many children as she could to fight the enemies of Islam.”

Basically a small groupe of Isis leaders fully understand the degree of Baghdadi’s problems, or exactly where he is being cared for. Much less still have seen him. Nevertheless, word of his injuries has began to spread to the group’s second-tier leadership, which is where conversation is rife of avenging the most significant blow to Isis since the group overran fifty percent of Iraq.

Afri is a professor of physics and a long-term member of Isis. He was recognized as predecessor to the group’s former chief, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a US-led raid near Tikrit in April 2010. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi assumed the mantle of leader in the days right after his predecessor’s death, but has significantly climbed to popularity since early 2013, when the group initially made its reputation felt in Syria’s civil war. In June last year, less than 1,000 Isis fighters expeled the Iraqi army from the north of the country, and had taken control of Mosul, Tikrit as well as Anbar and Nineveh provinces.

Ever since then, Isis has terrorized Baghdad and Irbil and attracted the US military back to a country it had left in 2011.

“They have a lot of confidence in al-Afri,” said Hisham al-Hashimi, senior adviser on Isis to the Iraqi government. “He is smart, and a good leader and administrator. If Baghdadi ends up dying, he will lead them.”

2 Isis insiders explained to media that the US-led air strikes, which have also included Jordanian and GCC fighter jets, have undertaken a major impact on the organisation’s numbers, and progressively its spirits.

“They are planning to fight back against Europe,” one associate stated. “They want to take revenge for Baghdadi.”

Though demonstrating to be a powerful menace to the group’s leaders, intelligence associated with air strikes has often been imperfect. In April, the White House was pressured to apologise after the US military wiped out an American and an Italian resident, as well as al-Qaida’s spokesman, Adam Gadahn, in a drone strike in Waziristan in January. Pentagon representatives took more than 3 months to determine exactly who the hit had destroyed.

While touting technical skills that can keep track of telephone calls and internet traffic, the US and its allies have minimal accessibility to on-the-ground sources within Isis – a truth well comprehended by the group’s senior members, who mostly steer clear of utilizing technology.

Baghdadi particularly had demonstrated challenging to track. His appearance in the al-Noori mosque in Mosul to anoint himself as caliph was the only time he had been viewed publicly since the Isis campaign began, and produced the only pictures of him due to the fact he was jailed by the US military in the notorious Camp Bucca prison in 2004.

An Isis insider informed media in December that Baghdadi had started positioning himself to ultimately lead the organisation as early as then. By the time he finally took over in 2010, the group was known as the Islamic State of Iraq, and had endured several years of setbacks, which seemed to stymie its objectives.

Nevertheless, the outbreak of the Syrian civil war gave Isis a new base, on which it started to capitalise in early 2013, 2 years into the turmoil. Helped by a porous border with Turkey, which witnessed at least 15,000-20,000 foreigners cross to enroll in its ranks, and the alliance of the Iraqi army around Mosul, the group was by last June working outside of state control and intimidating the whole regional order.

Baghdadi wanted legitimacy as caliph in a family ancestry that records back to the Prophet Muhammad and from post-graduate training in Islamic research. However, he has been considered within Isis as more than a figurehead, adding to strategic selections taken by the group.

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