TIME Magazine Person of the year, 2015? It has to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.A decade ago, an obscure Iraqi of no fixed abode called Ibrahim al-Samarrai was completing a brief spell in US detention. Last month, the United Nations made him the world’s public enemy number one.
So it was that Samarrai – better known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – passed from nonentity to global villain. In a rare moment of unanimity, the Security Council declared the movement he leads to be an “unprecedented threat” and said every country on the planet should use “all necessary measures” to destroy his blood-soaked creation.
The passage of UN Resolution 2249 on November 20 probably marked the peak of the murderous career of Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). He has done nothing but evil and the lives of countless innocents are already seared on his conscience, but as someone who has changed the course of history, no one else has run him close in 2015.
As such, Baghdadi deserves to be TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” – to be revealed on December 9, when its editors put the most significant individual of the past 12 months on their cover, as they have been doing since 1927.
Baghdadi’s significance in 2015 far exceeds other possible contenders likeVladimir Putin, who mounted his own quixotic intervention in Syria, andAngela Merkel, who decided to throw open Germany’s doors to 900,000 refugees.
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