will continue to exist and perhaps thrive in the absence of abu bakr al baghdadi because he was in a sense just the figure head of an organism that is self sustaining. they obviously lost their fis l physical caliphate. but as an idea it exists. it is not just about to disappear because abu bakr al baghdadi has been killed bit americans. there s probably no doubt that places around the world are on alert because of what happened there in syria. thank you for your perspectives. let s go to our sam kylie. he is on the border, the turkish-syrian border. interesting that nick was pointing out this reasonabgion, very close it is to turkey. reporter: yeah, not only close to turkey but very heavily
as a result. yet from that moment onwards, what was left of isis so-called caliphate collapsed in on itself. mosul freed from their grip in july, raqqah, back october. isis reduced to a tiny slip of land on the iraqi and syrian border. and an idea, infectious, hateful, still capable of inspiring barbaric insanity, yet now without its figure head, a man willing to lead his followers to death but only from the shadows. now natalie, we are hearing actually from an eyewitness, i should say a witness to some of the loud explosions that were in idlib province in northwestern syria just after midnight or so. this witness lives inside a village about five kilometers away from the town. balisha is a town you ll hear a lot of. it is pointed to be the location of the raid. the witness says after midnight
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sau kau we, the u.s. killed. became a magnet for the bloodthirsty. baghdadi silently behind an isis brutality to extreme even al qaeda disowned it, leading to the extremist groups to split in february 2014. and months later, the group to show its fighters breaking the borders of syria and iraq, declaring their caliphate. with baghdadi at its helm, claiming direct lineage from the prophet mohammad, the new caliph, the pinnacle of years in calculation, isis rose fast. then came an attack on an occupation of mosul. the atrocity against the yazidis in mt. sinjar.
grand mosque of mosul in iraq. he did not really develop a cult of personality. and natalie, when i spent two months in eastern syria, covering the fall of the so-called physical caliphate, we spoke with dozens of captured fighters, their wives, their children, ando only a handful mentioned the name of abu bakr al baghdadi. the vast majority stressed their allegiance to the islamic state. and it s not as if he made, he made that one public appearance. he made very few public statements until actually the collapse of the islamic state, the elimination of it. and therefore, he wasn t the same sort of personality or public personality in the sense that osama bin laden was.