ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi believed killed. How did US forces do it?
US media has provided the most likely scenario for the details of the US operation that is believed to have killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi who has been surviving all previous attempts by anti-terrorism coalition forces over the last years.
Amid all the speculations of the operation’s details, the US president Donald Trump is getting ready to deliver a speech later on Sunday after he tweeted earlier that “Something very big has just happened.”
If the killing took place for real, then it was most likely done through the following stages:
On October 20, CIA director Gina Haspel briefed Trump about the hiding place of Baghdadi and that a military operation is needed to take him down.
Saturday night, Trump signed an executive order allowing Delta Special Force to carry out the attack on a location that the CIA says was for Baghdadi along with a number of leaderships.
US military helicopters carried out the mission by striking the location in Brisha village in Idlib, Syria, with some of the US soldiers getting on the ground trying to catch ISIS leader alive, but were repelled by heavy fire.
Given the intensity of resistance on the ground, Delta Force soldiers requested immediate air raids which led to the demolishing of the building ISIS leaderships were barricading in.
The soldiers on the ground scoured under the rubble for bodies and managed to take to the helicopter some limbs of women and two men’s bodies.
US Defense Minister told Trump secretly that the operation was successful and that the target was killed but they were doing DNA tests to make sure.
“Something very big has just happened.” Trump tweeted and thus, all US and international media started their media coverage for the incident.
US media spoke about the possibility that Baghdadi took his now life by detonating an explosive vest he always wore in order not to be captured by any military or security forces.
