Bearded man with Baghdadi's appearance gave 18-minute address in the video
In the video, a bearded man with Baghdadi's appearance sitting cross-legged on the floor gives an 18-minute address. Several aides with their faces covered are shown listening.
Written script at the start of the video dated the video to earlier in April. The authenticity and date of the recording could not be independently verified. The man said to be Baghdadi also referred in the past tense to the fight for Baghouz, IS's final bastion in eastern Syria, which ended last month.But he insisted that IS's operations against the west were part of a "long battle," and that IS would "take revenge" on members who had been killed.Baghdadi, 47, had a long grey beard that appeared dyed with henna and spoke slowly, often pausing for several seconds in the middle of his sentences.
He appeared for the first and last time in public in Mosul in 2014, where he declared an Islamic "caliphate" in the swathes of territory IS then held in Syria and Iraq.
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