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US Took Two Prisoners During Raid of ISIS Leader’s Compound
epoch times ^ | 10/28/2019 | ZACHARY STIEBER

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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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abubakralbaghdadi; albaghdadi; erdogan; idlib; isis; kurdistan; markmilley; pow; receptayyiperdogan; specialforces; susanrice; syria; trumpgwot; turkey
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To: gasport; bitt
“The disposal of his remains has been done, is complete, and was handled appropriately,” he said.

In a Glad bag with ballast over the Mediterranean?

Close.

Chum for shark fishing off the coast of Australia.

21 posted on 10/28/2019 8:53:49 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Steven Tyler

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.


22 posted on 10/28/2019 8:53:50 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: bitt

Funny how they complain about how much detail Trump gave and yet things that he never mentioned are still trickling out.


23 posted on 10/28/2019 8:54:37 PM PDT by wiseprince
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To: bitt
Can't wait for the Hollywood movie of this raid. I wonder how they'll portray it? Silly me....it's a Trump victory, of course there won't be a movie.

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.

24 posted on 10/28/2019 8:57:34 PM PDT by Scooter100
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To: Scooter100

It was an Army show.

No swabbies. No jarheads. No zoomies.


25 posted on 10/28/2019 8:59:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oatka

Send in more dogs to make them talk.


26 posted on 10/28/2019 9:02:26 PM PDT by Salamander (Is A Dream A Lie If It Don't Come True...Or Is It Something Worse?)
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To: beethovenfan

Hannibal movie comes to mind.


27 posted on 10/28/2019 9:02:54 PM PDT by redshawk (Willie's Whore was bused......oh my...lying pig)
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To: Windflier

Perhaps to make the other miscreants paranoid, wondering what’s being spilled?

Psy-Ops are cool.

:)


28 posted on 10/28/2019 9:04:03 PM PDT by Salamander (Is A Dream A Lie If It Don't Come True...Or Is It Something Worse?)
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To: Steven Tyler

Didn’t see your reply.

We think alike.

[you may want to seek help for that]

:D


29 posted on 10/28/2019 9:05:14 PM PDT by Salamander (Is A Dream A Lie If It Don't Come True...Or Is It Something Worse?)
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To: BuffaloJack

Why?
............

We are better off if they are dead.


30 posted on 10/28/2019 9:08:27 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BenLurkin
Not directly, but any NSG or AFSS assets in theater were on Sigint Alert.
31 posted on 10/28/2019 9:19:27 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Windflier
I read and re-read the posted article- "“There were two adult males taken off the objective, alive,” Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,"

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).

32 posted on 10/28/2019 9:31:22 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Abu Trump is on a Holy Jihad! Go Trump!)
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To: bitt

I don’t know how they captured anyone after the videos came in of the compounds.. They were totally destroyed!!


33 posted on 10/28/2019 9:36:20 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: tallyhoe

The team was at the compound for two hours or so. The compound was destroyed after they left.


34 posted on 10/28/2019 9:37:49 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: gasport

“The disposal of his remains has been done, is complete, and was handled appropriately,” he said.


Fried the pieces up in pig grease and fed them to the dogs I hope.


35 posted on 10/28/2019 9:42:40 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: bitt

Yes they did. Top ISIS commanders.


36 posted on 10/28/2019 9:44:42 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: tallyhoe

They had tunnels all over that place.

We blocked the output.


37 posted on 10/28/2019 9:45:56 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Great movie. I think it leaves us to our imaginations as to whether he was really yellow or pretended to be yellow.


38 posted on 10/28/2019 9:49:26 PM PDT by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: tallyhoe

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.


39 posted on 10/28/2019 9:51:27 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: eyedigress

I forgot Nanners not briefed.


40 posted on 10/28/2019 9:54:07 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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