US troops demolished ISIS leader's suspected building to prevent it from becoming a shrine
David Choi
US special operations forces who are believed to have killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi issued an airstrike on his compound to prevent the location from becoming a shrine, according to Newsweek.
Soldiers from the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment, or Delta Force, conducted a raid against what they believed to be Baghdadi at the northern province of Idlib, Syria, on Saturday.
White House officials previously ordered Osama bin Laden's burial at sea in the event he was killed, in order to prevent his gravesite from becoming a shrine.
Baghdadi was previously rumored to have been killed or wounded by airstrikes on numerous occasions in recent years.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-troops-destroyed-isis-leader-building-baghdadi-shrine-2019-10
