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26 Oct 2019, 10:48 pm

BREAKING: ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Believed to Have Been Killed, According to Report

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), is believed to have been killed in a top-secret operation, according to Newsweek.

(Via Newsweek) The United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek has learned. Donald Trump approved the mission nearly a week before it took place.

Amid reports Saturday of U.S. military helicopters over Syria's northwestern Idlib province, a senior Pentagon official familiar with the operation and Army official briefed on the matter told Newsweek that Baghdadi was the target of the top-secret operation in the last bastion of the country's Islamist-dominated opposition, a faction that has clashed with ISIS in recent years. A U.S. Army source briefed on the results of the operation told Newsweek that Baghdadi was killed in the raid. And the Defense Department told the White House they have "high confidence" that the high-value target killed was Baghdadi but further verification is pending."

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonst ... d-n2555405

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27 Oct 2019, 12:27 am

He's dead, Jim.

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27 Oct 2019, 12:46 am

why wasn't this covered as heavily as osama's killing?

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27 Oct 2019, 12:48 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:

why wasn't this covered as heavily as osama's killing?

Because Al-Baghdadi hadn't killed thousands of American civilians inside the United States like Bin Laden did.

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27 Oct 2019, 12:58 am

wasn't he dead several times already ( ?)
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how"s this a thing?

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27 Oct 2019, 1:28 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:

why wasn't this covered as heavily as osama's killing?

Just happened within the last few hours (middle of the night). Public announcement expected Sunday morning US Eastern time.

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27 Oct 2019, 1:44 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

Kiprobalhato wrote:

why wasn't this covered as heavily as osama's killing?

Because Al-Baghdadi hadn't killed thousands of American civilians inside the United States like Bin Laden did.

of course.....

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27 Oct 2019, 3:46 am

The US armed ISIS and Al Qaeda

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27 Oct 2019, 8:06 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:

why wasn't this covered as heavily as osama's killing?

It appears to be getting a bunch of coverage now.

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27 Oct 2019, 10:37 am

Great, now Abu Bakar Al-Baghdadi is going to be stuck in my head. :skull:

I just ridded myself of Jeanne Mancini, motor encoder, Gloria from Astoria, Danger Noodle and dangle. :nerdy:

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29 Oct 2019, 12:52 am

While all of us would like a POS like Al-Baghdadi to have an ignominious death, it seems the Pentagon is questioning how Trump would know that he had died screaming and crying.

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29 Oct 2019, 2:06 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

While all of us would like a POS like Al-Baghdadi to have an ignominious death, it seems the Pentagon is questioning how Trump would know that he had died screaming and crying.

Why?

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29 Oct 2019, 2:10 am

EzraS wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

While all of us would like a POS like Al-Baghdadi to have an ignominious death, it seems the Pentagon is questioning how Trump would know that he had died screaming and crying.

Why?

Because those military officers who were observing the action from DC said they had no way of telling such a thing, and so neither did Trump.

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29 Oct 2019, 2:17 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

EzraS wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

While all of us would like a POS like Al-Baghdadi to have an ignominious death, it seems the Pentagon is questioning how Trump would know that he had died screaming and crying.

Why?

Because those military officers who were observing the action from DC said they had no way of telling such a thing, and so neither did Trump.

Maybe he got intel from the Russians or whoever.

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29 Oct 2019, 4:52 am

EzraS wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

EzraS wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

While all of us would like a POS like Al-Baghdadi to have an ignominious death, it seems the Pentagon is questioning how Trump would know that he had died screaming and crying.

Why?

Because those military officers who were observing the action from DC said they had no way of telling such a thing, and so neither did Trump.

Maybe he got intel from the Russians or whoever.

How would they know?

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29 Oct 2019, 4:56 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

EzraS wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

EzraS wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

While all of us would like a POS like Al-Baghdadi to have an ignominious death, it seems the Pentagon is questioning how Trump would know that he had died screaming and crying.

Why?

Because those military officers who were observing the action from DC said they had no way of telling such a thing, and so neither did Trump.

Maybe he got intel from the Russians or whoever.

How would they know?

They who? The Russians or Whoever?

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