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		</div><p>The leader of the Islamic State group has reeled a new message encouraging his followers to keep up the fight for the city of Mosul.</p>
<p>The Site Intelligence Group, a US organisation which monitors militant activity online, said the speech purporting to be from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was released in an audio recording late on Wednesday.</p>
<p>In it al-Baghdadi, who has reportedly not been heard from for more than a year, rallies his fighters and calls on them to obey orders while remaining resilient and steadfast.</p>
<p>He also urges others to carry out attacks in Saudi Arabia and Turkey in the message, which is more than half an hour long.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Oh you who seek martyrdom! Start your actions! Turn the night of the disbelievers into day,&#8221;</i> he says.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Totally decimate their territories and make their blood flow like rivers!&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The recording was the reclusive al-Baghdadi&#8217;s first released message to supporters since Iraqi forces launched the battle to retake Mosul, the country&#8217;s second-largest city, from IS.</p>
<p>The message is being seen as an attempt to stir up the same Sunni resentment which preceded the 2014 IS takeover of Mosul, a largely Sunni city in Shiite-majority Iraq.</p>
<p>Using a derogatory term for Shiites, he says followers of the Muslim sect want to <i>&#8220;empty Iraq of Sunnis and replace them with the worst of people&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>He calls on fighters to <i>&#8220;respond to all attacks&#8221;</i> and to <i>&#8220;target all in their media and forces, and all who belong to them&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>The message could not be independently verified but it was similar to recordings previously released by al-Baghdadi.</p>
<p>The Islamic State group is fighting to hold Mosul as Iraqi forces and allied Kurdish forces advance on the city with US-led coalition support.</p>
<p>The city of more than one million people and surrounding territory fell to IS fighters during a surprise attack in June 2014.</p>
<p>Al-Baghdadi visited Mosul after the takeover and declared an Islamic caliphate that at one point covered nearly a third of Iraq and Syria.</p>
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