Doubts over Donald Trump's dramatic account of Baghdadi raid [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Footage of the US special forces raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's Syrian compound reportedly consisted of overhead surveillance footage and no audio, prompting questions over the extent of the dramatic license taken by Donald Trump in describing the final moments of one of the most wanted terrorists in the world.
US officials who also watched the feed have declined to echo details of Trump's macabre account of the Isis's leader death on Saturday, including that Baghdadi was "whimpering, crying and screaming all the way".
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The footage piped into the situation room would have consisted of overhead surveillance shots of the dark compound with heat signatures differentiating between US fighters and others, intelligence and military officials told the New York Times.
Those cameras would not have been able to peer into the tunnel where Baghdadi died, nor provide audio proof of his conduct during the last minutes of his life.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/28/doubts-over-trump-dramatic-account-baghdadi-raid
He is such a liar and hyperbolic. I wonder if this ISIS leader was even killed. We can't trust anything he says.
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