Posted on 10/28/2019 8:13:35 PM PDT by bitt
The United States took two prisoners during the raid on the compound of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, officials said on Oct. 28.
The Oct. 26 raid left al-Baghdadi and several top ISIS members dead, as well as several children who were killed when al-Baghdadi detonated a blast in a dead-end tunnel, President Donald Trump said over the weekend.
In an update during a briefing at the Pentagon on Oct. 28, military leaders said two men were taken prisoner.
“There were two adult males taken off the objective, alive,” Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during the briefing in Washington. “They’re in our custody and they’re in a secure facility.”
He declined to say what the men’s relationship with the ISIS leader was. The raid took place in Syria’s Idlib province, just miles from the border with Turkey.
Milley said al-Baghdadi was hiding in a tunnel and detonated a suicide vest as U.S. forces closed in. Visual evidence and DNA testing confirmed his identity.
“The disposal of his remains has been done, is complete, and was handled appropriately,” he said.
Trump said on Oct. 27 that al-Baghdadi was “whimpering and crying” just before he detonated the blast. Milley said he didn’t know who Trump had gotten that information from, but said the president had spoken “directly to the unit members.”
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In a Glad bag with ballast over the Mediterranean?
Close.
Chum for shark fishing off the coast of Australia.
Chatter going around suggests they provided the info. Reward money is $25-million. Maybe they even got some US residency deal out of this. New names? Marvin and Jimmy-Joe.
Funny how they complain about how much detail Trump gave and yet things that he never mentioned are still trickling out.
One thing is sure, if I were a SEAL who participated in the raid, I wouldn't take any helicopter rides for a year or so. If you know what I mean and I think you do.
It was an Army show.
No swabbies. No jarheads. No zoomies.
Send in more dogs to make them talk.
Hannibal movie comes to mind.
Perhaps to make the other miscreants paranoid, wondering what’s being spilled?
Psy-Ops are cool.
:)
Didn’t see your reply.
We think alike.
[you may want to seek help for that]
:D
Why?
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We are better off if they are dead.
and I really can't tell if Gen. Milley is the First "official" to have made that statement about the capture, or just reaffirming what some other "official" said. It sounds sort of like Gen. Milley is the one that made the statement, and if so, he is not really some ding-a-ling official, but the military's highest ranking member below President Trump (or maybe Sec Def).
I don’t know how they captured anyone after the videos came in of the compounds.. They were totally destroyed!!
The team was at the compound for two hours or so. The compound was destroyed after they left.
“The disposal of his remains has been done, is complete, and was handled appropriately,” he said.
Yes they did. Top ISIS commanders.
They had tunnels all over that place.
We blocked the output.
Great movie. I think it leaves us to our imaginations as to whether he was really yellow or pretended to be yellow.
Think now about the last two weeks.
The President pulls US troops out.
Gets attacked on TV by everybody for abandoning the Kurds.
The Kurds lead us to bagdaddy.
Libs apoplectic.
I forgot Nanners not briefed.
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