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[gregory999]

Is it Barak Obama?
No.
Is it John Kerry?
No.
Is it Vladimir Putin?
No.
Is it Angela Merkel?
No.
Is it the Pope?
No.

Then, who is it?
It has to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi


The editors of TIME magazine may have other ideas, but the sad fact is that the leader of the would-be Islamic State has changed the course of history
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 like Vladimir Putin, who mounted his own quixotic intervention in Syria, and Angela Merkel, who decided to throw open Germany's doors to 900,000 refugees.
Tragically, Baghdadi’s efforts to bring war to the world are more significant than the peacemaking of John Kerry, the US secretary of state, who achieved the nuclear deal with Iran in July.
Most heart-wrenchingly of all, the terrorist leader’s memory will probably outlive that of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose death by drowning on a Turkish beach briefly pricked the conscience of Europe.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12030139/Person-of-the-year-2015-It-has-to-be-Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi.html

[wangdaning]

Peace-making John Kerry

Also, it is sad that someone who is hardly known to most of the world becomes a media sensation. Are they trying to glamorize IS, guess it is what they need now that they are actually getting their ---es kicked.

[steki47]

Now it is Putin and Trump in the lead.

http://www.today.com/news/times-person-year-2015-caitlyn-jenner-donald-trump-isis-join-t59931

[nomad soul]

They chose German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Trump has already tweeted his displeasure at not making the cover.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/09/europe/time-person-of-the-year-merkel/index.html

[spiral78]

Yeah, be on the lookout for rioting in the streets by Trump's outraged supporters