ISIS last stand: Desperate al-Baghdadi says defeat is 'blessing' in rambling message

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THE DESPERATE leader of the crumbling Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has tried to portray its crushing recent defeats as a blessing from Allah in a rambling message calling on Muslims worldwide to take up arms.

By Nick Gutteridge

PUBLISHED: 00:02, Mon, Dec 28, 2015 | UPDATED: 13:03, Mon, Dec 28, 2015

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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has issued a bizarre rallying cry to supporters

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi assured followers his so-called Caliphate is “fine and expanding everyday” in a bizarre audio recording issued just hours after Iraqi forces liberated the key city of Ramadi and Kurdish Peshmerga recaptured a strategic dam.

In a desperate call for support the terrorist leader admitted that Western and Russian airstrikes have had a “calamitous” toll on ISIS, but brushed off the death and mutilation of thousands of its fighters as a “blessing from Allah” which are simply part of a “pre-destined ordeal”. 

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He also bizarrely welcomed the recent widespread desertion amongst ISIS ranks, branding deserters “hypocrites and agents” and insisting that the numbers of fighters abandoning the jihadis every day is actually making the group stronger.

The unhinged message, which was circulated amongst jihadi fighters online, is the latest evidence that the increasingly fragile hate group is falling apart amid reports it is desperately short of both fighters and weapons.

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Kurdish forces have recaptured a key dam in Syria

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Kurdish special forces recaptured the key dam from ISIS

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The dam was a key strategic ISIS stronghold in Syria

In it Baghdadi calls for Muslims worldwide to travel Syria to help defend the so-called Caliphate as part of a desperate last stand against liberating forces.

He paints the seemingly impending collapse of the terrorist group as a "battle of all the infidels against all the Muslims", adding that "each time that the number of nations against us grows, so too does the certainty of the help of Allah and the fact that we are on the right path".

He says: “O Muslims, the current battle is not a simple crusade, but a war of all the nations of the infidel nations against the Islamic State. It has never happened in the history of our people that the world has gathered in a single battle like the one taking place today."

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The audio message was released just hours after Iraqi troops retook Ramadi

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Iraqi troops have driven the jihadis out of the key city, delivering a crushing blow

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The jihadis fled the city in a hurry, leaving behind a huge munitions dump

The fact that the incredibly reclusive Baghdadi, who has not been seen in public for more than a year, has chosen to issue such a call to arms now was seen as a sign of ISIS’ growing desperation in the face of ultimate annihilation.

In the chilling message the terrorist supremo also warned of further attacks against Israel and the West, urging the “sons of immigrants” to rise up against their adopted countries and wreak bloodshed.

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