' now-dead leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, otherwise known as 'The Professor,' had a complicated history, where he once served as a U.S. informant and more recently had a $10 million bounty on his head from Washington. Al-Qurayshi, also known as Abdullah Qardash, was nicknamed The Professor or The Destroyer because of his reputation as a brutal legislator - is known as a cruel but popular figure among the ISIS rank-and-file.He replaced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after al-Baghdadi blew himself up with a suicide vest during a U.S. raid in 2019. Al-Qurayshi is believed to be a former officer in Saddam Hussein's military who forged an alliance with al-Baghdadi in prison before becoming his enforcer and chief policymaker.
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