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Analysis: Would the demise of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi also be the end of Islamic State?

AL HOL, Syria - "Our emir is not dead!" shouted a bespectacled Egyptian woman from behind a chain-link fence. "This is propaganda! We don't believe it!"

"More American lies," said another woman, who spoke with a French accent but would not say what country she was from.

The women, who wore black veils and cloaks from head to toe and would not give their names, are among 70,000 detainees at a camp in northeastern Syria - all relatives of Islamic State fighters who were dead or in jail.

They bridled at the notion that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State, had been killed Saturday in northwestern Syria in a U.S. raid -

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