PARIS, July 21 — With monikers as divergent as the “Professor” and the “Destroyer,” the Islamic State group's new head has a reputation for brutality, but otherwise remains largely an enigma. Amir Mohammed Said Abd al-Rahman al-Mawla replaced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after his death in a raid...
New head of the Islamic State Amir Mohammed Said Abd al-Rahman al-Mawla — Image via terrorism-info.org
Mawla was initially presented to the world by the Islamic State as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi — a man about whom America and Iraq had little intelligence. His ethnic origins prompted the United Nations to predict in a January report that he might be a “temporary choice until the group finds a more legitimate “emir,”, a direct descendant from the Quraysh Hashemite tribe who could therefore command the full support of the remote provinces.”A former officer in the army of Saddam Hussein, he joined the ranks of Al-Qaeda after the US invasion of Iraq and Hussein's capture in 2003, according to the Counter Extremism Project think-tank.
A profile drawn up by the CEP said that Mawla “quickly established himself among the insurgency's senior ranks, and was nicknamed the 'Professor' and the 'Destroyer.'” “Despite its serious losses in territory and manpower, it remains financially solvent, creative, lethal, and once again confident enough to threaten those who violate its principles,” CGP analyst Abdullah Al-Ghadhawi wrote.
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