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Southern iraq. he was later released. two years after that, the islamic state of iraq was created and in 2010 he ascended to the lead of it after his predecessors were killed in an operation. after 2014 isis announced the caliphate and baghdadi declared himself the ruling of more than a billion muslims. he was believed to have been wounded in a 2017 air strike and said to have seeded control at that time for several months due to injury. and then in april of this year, isis released what was purported to tb a new video message from baghdadi, which brings us to this moment. and sources telling ...

The highway so two sheriff's deputies here when the shooting erupted and then we are told it turned into chaos here as people were scrambling running for their lives from the scene. in that chaos, the gunman appears to have been able to get away. so that search continues here this morning. marty? >> ed lavandera, thank you for update and we will continue to stay in touch with you. >> ed, thank you so much. cnn continue to following the breaking news this morning that the leader of isis is believed to be killed in a u.s. special operations raid. we are waiting as the president is preparing for ...

Might argue, even now, if we are in a conversation where we wonder whether baghdadi might be dead we're trying to work out exactly what isis managed to pull off and the big failing of the west has been to try to work out where initially they came from. and part of the effectiveness of isis at preventing that conversation was to make themselves quite so horrifying, make themselves quite so disgusting to the uninformed viewers. >> nic, pause that thought for just a second because we do have more news here into cnn. again, i want to remind everyone that we're covering a u.s. military special oper...

Anger, a great deal of frustration, alienation among sunnis. some of those sunnis aligned up with elements of the -- with the ousted saddam regime, and some of those sunnis formed together and they formed a group that went by a variety of names, but eventually came to be known as al qaeda in iraq. baghdadi came from this group. zakawi was also killed in a special operations raid. he was perhaps the group's most notorious leader the first time around. he was the one who really characterized the group's modus operandi, which was to terror ize civilians, to capture hostages, to behead them on vid...

To run day to day ops. but beyond that, it's also not clear what kind of role he had. so we're still trying to gather a lot of information here, find out exactly what happened, whether the u.s. is confident that, in fact, he was killed and any more details about exactly how that happened. this was a special operations raid, we know that. what we don't know exactly kind of the flavor of the spec ops who were involved here. there is a task force presence, so it's possible that these are the most elite of the special operators who would be involved in this. but, again, that's one of the questions...