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We start with some breaking news. The first video footage of the man believed to be the leader of the ISIS, the militant group which has taken control of large part of Syria and Iraq. This is the material that was posted online. But it appears to show Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi speaking in a great Mosque, as now being, which is in Mosul. It's thought the video was filmed on Friday, and this follows report that he may have been killed in the fighting in Iraq. Well, let's get more now from our correspondent Paul Adams who is in Baghdad. 

首先让我们来说一些爆炸性新闻。第一个视频镜头是ISIS恐怖组织领导头目，该组织下的军队已经控制了叙利亚和伊拉克大部分领土。这是网上流传出来的信息。从中可以清楚的看出巴格达迪是在摩苏尔的一个大清真寺里讲话。据说这个视频是在星期五录制完成的，随后的报道称巴格达迪已经在伊拉克战争中被杀死。下面是驻巴格达记者从前方发回的报道。

“Paul, how would we know that this is the ISIS leader and this was filmed recently?” 

保罗，你是怎样知道这就是ISIS组织头目，而且这个视频就是最近录制的呢？

“You've good, propose for a good question because certainly the man who appears in this video is rather different from the couple of the rather grainy still images that we've had of him up to now and which he’d appeared somewhat scrappy unshaven figure. Here we have a man who looked every inch the religious preacher with this full black beard and robes, as speaking there in the very grand surroundings of the Great Mosque of Nur al-Din, which is one of the most famous mosques in Iraq and certainly the most famous landmark in Mosul. We've spoken to people who believe that this is indeed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, that is certainly how the video presents him, the video produced by ISIS themselves. We've spoken to an Iraqi official who is quite well acquainted with Mr. al-Baghdadi and he believes that this is him. And it is also consistent with reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did indeed address the congregation there in the mosque in Mosul yesterday. So as you say, after about 24 hours or so in which a number of fairly vague rumors about his possibly having been injured or killed in some kind of military operation have been circulating here in rather glorious technicolor would've appeared to be the ISIS response. Here is a man re-carved as a religious and temporal leader addressing the faithful in one of the most important mosques in the country.”

问得好。视频中的人与我们之前所知的胡子拉碴，不修边幅的巴格达迪确实有很大的不同。视频中我们所见到的的人是一个非常有绅士风度温文尔雅，留黑胡子穿黑袍子的人在苏摩尔一座大清真寺里发表讲话。这座清真寺是在伊拉克非常有名的，并且也是摩苏尔当地的标志性建筑。通过与当地人的交谈我们确信，视频中出现的人正是巴格达迪本人。伊拉克政府内部官员也证实了这就是巴格达迪。这也和昨天报道称巴格达迪现身摩苏尔摩苏尔当地清真寺相符合。就像你说的，在随后的24小时里各种模糊不清的传言称他已经在军事行动中受伤或者遇难了，其实这也是对ISIS组织一直所推崇的光荣献身号召的响应。巴格达迪也在这个国家最负盛名的清真寺里成为了“伊拉克和大叙利亚伊斯兰国”的“国王”。