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Officials from several countries said US special forces carried out an attack targeting the terror group’s leader in the northern province of Idlib late on Saturday, but confirmation of his death is still pending.
Several reports suggest Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest during the raid by Delta Force operatives, which lasted for nearly two hours and involved helicopters, warplanes and ground forces.
Speculation over Baghdadi’s fate came as US President Donald Trump teased a major development in a tweet on Saturday night, saying: “Something very big has just happened!” The president is expected to make a statement at 1pm GMT today.
If the reports are confirmed, the death of the Isis leader would strike a major blow to the terror organisation.
www.independent.co.uk...
originally posted by: Gothmog
Got to laugh at the folks saying dead "again" .
Sounds like an old comedy series from years ago.
I think the predecessor was Abu Omar al-Baghdadi
Assassinated , I think , in 2010 (?)
The King is dead …. Long Live the King
originally posted by: St Udio
there will forever be a new or replacement Abu Bakr that will arise to the status of (Temporal) Caliph of the Sunni sect...
Thus Springs the perpetual 'Hope' -> renewed to another generation
in the Western world... Its'
The King is dead …. Long Live the King
a reply to: gortex link
28 July 2017 - Velicovich was further questioned by Fox News about the reports of al-Baghdadi's death after a Russian government claim of having killed him in Syria, during which Velicovich stated that he didn't believe the claims and if he was dead the U.S. Government would have announced it.
29 April 2019: A video emerged of Baghdadi on ISIS's media network Al Furqan praising the perpetrators of the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings