’ISIL’ Leader Calls for Attacks against KSA

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"The "ISIL" leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called for attacks against the rulers of Saudi Arabia in a speech purported to be in his name on Thursday, saying his self-declared caliphate was expanding there and in four other Arab countries.

Baghdadi also said a US-led military campaign against his group in Syria and Iraq was failing and he called for "volcanoes of jihad" the world over.

The voice sounded similar to a previous speech delivered by Baghdadi in July in a mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul in July, the last time he spoke in public.

The United States said on Tuesday it could not confirm whether he was killed or wounded in Iraq following a strike near the city of Falluja.

Baghdadi urged supporters in Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, to take the fight to the rulers of the kingdom, which has joined the US-led coalition in mounting air strikes against the "ISIL" group in Syria.

"O sons of al-Haramayn...the serpent's head and the stronghold of the disease are there...draw your swords and divorce life, because there should be no security for the Saloul," Baghdadi said, using a derogatory term to refer to the leadership of Saudi Arabia.
Haramayn is a reference to the two holiest places in Islam .

"We announce to you the expansion of the "ISIL" to new countries, to the countries of the Haramayn, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Algeria," he said in the speech, in which he spoke at length on his group's expansion.

"We announce the acceptance of the pledges of allegiance of the brothers who swore loyalty to us in these countries... and the appointment governors."

He added, however: "Oh soldiers of the "ISIL"...erupt volcanoes of jihad everywhere. Light the earth with fire against all dictators."

Referring to US-led military action against his group, he said: "Despite this Crusade campaign being the most fierce and severe of all, it is the greatest failure."

"We see America and its allies stumbling in fear, weakness, impotence and failure." The speech was transcribed in Arabic and translated into English.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team