Pentagon Releases Photos And Video Of Special Forces Raid That Took Out ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi
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Getty Image / OMAR HAJ KADOUR / Contributor The Pentagon released a video of the U.S. Special Forces raid in Syria that took out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The footage that was released on Wednesday afternoon at a press conference showed the nighttime raid that eventually forced the terror-in-chief to kill himself via a suicide vest. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command, narrated the video and provided a play-by-play of the events on the ground at al-Baghdadi’s compound in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. The launch order for the top-secret mission to kill or capture the Daesh leader was given at 9 AM ET on Saturday, October 26, 2019. BREAKING: Pentagon reveals video of al Baghdadi Raid pic.twitter.com/5OTKEb8YQb — Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) October 30, 2019 “Baghdadi was the subject of an intense inter-agency effort to bring him to justice, and that effort significantly advanced recently as we closed in on his whereabouts,” said McKenzie, who was the operational commander of the Delta Force raid. “As it became clear that we had gained fleeting and actionable intelligence on his hideout, we developed an execution level plan designed to capture or kill him and started preparing a special operations team for the mission,” the Marine Corps General said at the press conference. "Here we see the object of the assault-the compound where Baghdadi was hiding. As I noted earlier, thi
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Getty Image / OMAR HAJ KADOUR / Contributor The Pentagon released a video of the U.S. Special Forces raid in Syria that took out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The footage that was released on Wednesday afternoon at a press conference showed the nighttime raid that eventually forced the terror-in-chief to kill himself via a suicide vest. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command, narrated the video and provided a play-by-play of the events on the ground at al-Baghdadi’s compound in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. The launch order for the top-secret mission to kill or capture the Daesh leader was given at 9 AM ET on Saturday, October 26, 2019. BREAKING: Pentagon reveals video of al Baghdadi Raid pic.twitter.com/5OTKEb8YQb — Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) October 30, 2019 “Baghdadi was the subject of an intense inter-agency effort to bring him to justice, and that effort significantly advanced recently as we closed in on his whereabouts,” said McKenzie, who was the operational commander of the Delta Force raid. “As it became clear that we had gained fleeting and actionable intelligence on his hideout, we developed an execution level plan designed to capture or kill him and started preparing a special operations team for the mission,” the Marine Corps General said at the press conference. "Here we see the object of the assault-the compound where Baghdadi was hiding. As I noted earlier, thi
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