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Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Is Dead, Trump Says
Trump makes announcement in White House remarks
By Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2019:
Baghdadi Was Killed in U.S. Military Raid in Syria, Trump Says
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. military targeted the head of Islamic State in a raid in northwestern Syria that U.S. officials said resulted in the death of an individual—an operation that, if successful, would remove the operational and spiritual leader of the group the U.S. has been attempting to defeat for the past several years.
Those officials said the individual targeted was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of Islamic State, but they wouldn’t confirm if he was killed in the raid. The White House announced late Saturday that President Trump would be making a major statement on a foreign policy matter Sunday morning. The White House declined to elaborate.
Turkish and Iraqi officials said on Sunday they had knowledge of the raid.
“Something very big has just happened,” Mr. Trump tweeted about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, without elaborating.
Two U.S. officials said the announcement was tied to the raid carried out by special-operations forces near Idlib in northwestern Syria, an area U.S. forces have generally stayed away from since their operations against Islamic State have been focused in the northeast.
The ground operation was meant to target Baghdadi, who is considered the ideological leader of Islamic State and responsible for its reign of terror across Iraq and Syria. Islamic State displaced tens of thousands of people and was responsible for widespread barbarism, including rapes and video-recorded beheadings.
The removal of Baghdadi from the battlefield would amount to a symbolic move, but a potent one, as President Trump reconsiders the U.S. presence in the region and the fight against Islamic State in Syria, where he this month ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
President Trump announces the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during comments from the White House Sunday. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Associated Press
Targeting operations—akin to the one that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011—are highly risky and inherently perilous, especially if the U.S. conducted a raid in that region, where there is a smaller U.S. presence.
Islamic State didn’t immediately confirm or deny reports of its leader’s death, but some of the group’s supporters responded to the news by offering condolences and prayers on Telegram, according to Hisham al-Hashimi, an Iraqi researcher who monitors the group’s channels.
Turkey, which borders northern Syria, had information pointing to Baghdadi’s presence in the Idlib village 48 hours before the U.S. raid, according to a senior Turkish official.
The official said he couldn’t confirm or deny that intelligence was shared with the U.S. to facilitate the raid on the Islamic State leader, but said the Turkish military had advanced knowledge of the operation and described Baghdadi’s alleged death as “a very welcome development.”
An official in the Iraqi National Intelligence Service said the agency had provided the U.S. with the coordinates of Baghdadi’s location through “a complex intelligence operation using information from captured associates of Baghdadi.” The official said one lead had placed Baghdadi in northern Syria and the other had given the exact coordinates of the location that was targeted by U.S. special-operations forces overnight.
A resident in the Syrian town of Sarmada, near the location of the raid, said he began hearing the sounds of helicopters flying above starting at midnight. Given the area’s proximity to the Turkish border, it is unusual for Syrian regime planes to fly above that area.
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