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Report: U.S. Special Operations Raid Kills ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Posted on | October 27, 2019 | Comments Off on Report: U.S. Special Operations Raid Kills ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

 

The identification is still tentative:

A “high value ISIS target” believed to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed by U.S.-led forces in Idlib, Syria, a well-placed military source told Fox News on Saturday night.
The U.S. military cannot yet confirm the identity of the deceased target.
But at 9:23 p.m. Saturday, President Trump posted a Twitter message hinting at “very big” news.
Soon after, the White House issued a statement that major news would be announced from the White House at 9 a.m. Sunday.
Newsweek reported late Saturday that Baghdadi was killed during a special operations mission that President Trump approved about a week ago.
In September, an audio recording purportedly by Baghdadi included a call for members of the extremist group to use any means necessary to free Muslims who were being detained “by Crusaders and their Shiite followers.”
The U.S. had reportedly posted a bounty of $25 million for information leading to the capture of Baghdadi.

We got our money’s worth, apparently.


 

Category: Islam, Military, Syria, Terrorism

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