Via CNS News:
In a new audio message, the leader of the Islamic State said that the U.S. is “stumbling in failure” because it is “unable to send ground forces to fight” ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was thought to be wounded or even killed in a recent U.S. airstrike. But, an audio recording has surfaced in which he references recent events such as President Obama’s decision to send and addition 1,500 military advisors to Iraq. This seems to point to him being alive, at the very least.
Multiple times throughout the speech, al-Baghdadi references the “failure” of the U.S. and coalition mission to destroy the marauding terrorist army. While directly referencing President Obama, al-Baghdadi claimed that due to the early failure of the mission, Obama would be forced to send ground troops.