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Vol. 15 · No. 134 · Tuesday, 10 November 2026

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ISIS leader has volunteers for suicide bombings but no one will read his screenplay

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HAJIN, Syria – In the last 6 years, ISIS leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi has called for jihad, death to westerners, and martyrdom, but al-Baghdadi now faces his most ambition request so far: notes on his new screenplay, sources confirmed today.

"A Terrorist and a Gentleman" is al-Baghdadi's first attempt at writing drama. He describes the work as a struggle between the experiential and narrative self that asks "what does it mean to be a terrorist in the 21st century?" He called his work the "'Casablanca' of the Arab world," in an online video.

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