REUTERS COULD NOT INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRM THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE AUDIO RECORDING OF ISLAMIC STATE LEADER, ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI<br/> <br />Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said a U.S.-led military campaign against his group in Syria and Iraq was failing and he called for "volcanoes of jihad" the world over, in a speech purported to be in his name posted to the Internet on Thursday (November 13).<br/> <br />Baghdadi also called for attacks against the rulers of Saudi Arabia saying his self-declared caliphate was expanding there and in four other Arab countries.<br/> <br />Reuters could not independently confirm the authenticity of the speech - an audio recording carried on Islamic State-run social media. The voice sounded similar to a previous speech delivered by Baghdadi in July in a mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul, the last time he spoke in public.<br/> <br />It followed contradictory accounts out of Iraq after U.S. air strikes last Friday (November 7) about whether he was wounded in a raid. The
