ISIL leader compared to a chicken by Dubai’s security chief

Catching Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi should be no harder than catching a chicken, Dubai’s security chief has said. Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan bin Tamim, head of General Security for the Emirate of Dubai, made the remark while criticising governments across the globe for failing to bring the world’s most wanted terrorist to justice. He tweeted: “Where is the Calipha Al Baghdadi? Catching Al Baghdadi is easier than catching a chicken.” Khalfan added on Twitter: “There is a global failure to arrest Al Baghdadi. Who is behind not arresting Al Baghdadi?” Khalfan, who was head of Dubai Police between 1980 and 2013, has often used Twitter in the past to express his opinions on international matters, including blasting the Muslim Brotherhood. On Friday, he also tweeted about the Paris terror attacks earlier this month, claiming ISIL managed to reach France even though they had plenty of targets nearer to home. He wrote on Twitter: “Everybody demanding to arrest [Abdelhamid Abaaoud, ringleader of the attacks] and his followers.. why don’t people go to Iraq and arrest Al Baghdadi.” He said also that ISIL was turning rappers to their extremist cause. He tweeted: “They transfer them from nightclubs to jihadist!!.. what jihadists they are?!” His tweets divided users on Twitter, with some people supporting his views and others mocking them. One Twitter user replied to a tweet: “Al Baghdadi is a rooster not a chicken.” Another said: “The words are easy to say… the east united with the west to arrest Al Baghdadi and nobody has arrested him yet.” ali.shouk@7days.ae