User talk:Mohamedtoure20
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[edit]Hello, I wanted to let you know that the changes you made to Abu Muslim al-Turkmani and Haji Bakr and Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi and Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi in the infobox and in the dates, doesn't match what is written in the biographies of these people in the article. This will make so many people Puzzled while reading the article, also your claims should be supported by Sources. Thanks Kiro Bassem (talk) 15:23, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I wonder if Haitham al-Badri is al-Baghdad's cousin or one of the sons of his cousin? Kiro Bassem (talk) 10:49, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
According to someone on Reddit who is an expert on ISIS, Haitham was the son of one of Al-Baghdadi's cousins. I even have a picutre of Haitham al-Badri. Keep in mind that the al-Badri clan and tribe they belong to is very large. The interesting thing is that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's family had been religious puritans for generations (Ibrahim al-Badri aka Abu Bakr was known to be religious since his childhood) and they had a love and hate relationship with the Ba'athist regime because they were Salafists yet enjoined the benefits of Saddam's favoring of Sunnis, in fact two of Abu Bakr's uncles and his brother had served in the security and armed forces (Abu Bakr was close to joining the army but his eyesight was too bad).This could mean Haitham al-Badri already had a "religious" background when he joined the Republican Guard and explain why he joined jihadist groups right away after the invasion. The interesting thing is that with Saddam's faith campaign in the 1990's he tolerated Islamic extremists in the army (but didn't give them commanding position to keep close tabs on them) and someone who served with an ex-Ba'athist ISIS member said most were already hardliners before 2003.