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The Hunt: ISIS leader al-Baghdadi badly wounded

By J.J. Green

Reports that the head of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was seriously wounded, have been circulating for months. But in an exclusive interview WTOP has confirmed it.

Lukman Faily, Iraq’s Ambassador to the U.S., talks about it on this week’s edition of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green.

FBI detects Iranian cyber criminals in US systems

By J.J. Green
WASHINGTON — The FBI has detected a group of hackers it believes are using dozens of IP addresses and hundreds of domains hosted in the United States to possibly attack enemies of the Iranian government. A Cyber Division Flash bulletin indicates “a group of malicious cyber actors — likely located in Iran — use Virtual Private Server infrastructure hosted in the United States to compromise government, corporate and academic computer networks based in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.”
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