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Pentagon releases first images from raid that killed ISIS leader
« on: October 31, 2019, 10:15:44 am »
Washington (CNN) — The Pentagon released newly declassified video and images Wednesday of the daring, two hour raid targeting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that shows US forces taking small arms fire from multiple locations as their helicopters approached the compound.

Video from an overhead drone also shows the commandos approaching Baghdadi's compound and aerial strikes carried out by US F-15 fighter jets and MQ-9 Reaper Drones to blow up the site once it was cleared.

The commander of US Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie, said the DNA used to confirm Baghdadi's identity was from samples collected during his previous detention at Camp Bucca in Iraq.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/politics/pentagon-baghdadi-raid-video/index.html


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Re: Pentagon releases first images from raid that killed ISIS leader
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2019, 11:02:22 am »
(edit, 3 paragraph limit please, thanks so much for posting)

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Re: Pentagon releases first images from raid that killed ISIS leader
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2019, 11:10:06 am »
"U.S. releases Baghdadi raid video, warns of likely retribution attack"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-baghdadi-video/u-s-releases-baghdadi-raid-video-warns-of-likely-retribution-attack-idUSKBN1X92S1

I wonder if we will find out more about Manchester yesterday? Could those arrested have been planning something? Thank goodness it was thwarted. I have heard nothing about ID-ing the suspects yet.
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