The next leader of the Islamic State is likely to be from a close circle of battle-hardened Iraqi jihadists who emerged in the aftermath of the 2003 US invasion, two Iraqi security officials and three independent analysts said.
The group of potential successors to Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi, who blew himself up during a US operation to capture him in Syria last week, includes one commander whom Washington and Baghdad declared killed last year, the Iraqi officials said.
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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. it read like an indictment today, a new united nations report accusing syrian president bashar al-assad of crimes against humanity. assad is trying to crush a freedom movement that has risen qunicy his family s 40-year dictatorship. this is one street today in the city of homs. more than a million and a half people live in homs, but they re in hiding, amidst the distant thunder of assad s artillery. there are reports from homs tonight of hunger and of wounds sewn up with sewing thread. secretary of state hillary clinton is headed to tunisia for a conference on what to do next and wyatt andrews is with the secretary tonight in london. reporter: scott, that international conference the secretary will attend has two main goals, the first, getting food and medicine into syria and then getting rid of bashar al- assad. but it is clear to me that there will be a breaking point.