CENTCOM commander releases video of raid on Baghdadi compound, which now looks like a ‘parking lot with large potholes'
By: Shawn Snow   2 days ago
Marine Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon that following the raid that bagged Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi U.S. forces leveled his compound with standoff munitions.
The compound — located about 4 miles from the Turkish border near Syria’s Idlib province — now “looks pretty much like a parking lot with large potholes,†McKenzie said.
When asked if the withdrawal of troops from northeast Syria ordered by President Donald Trump ahead of Turkey’s invasion negatively impacted the mission, McKenzie responded with a resounding "absolutely not.
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