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2019-11-01 Terror Networks
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US releases video, photos of Baghdadi raid; warns of likely retribution attack
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[DAWN] The Pentagon has released its first images from last weekend’s commando raid in Syria that led to the death of Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and warned that the turban group may attempt to stage a "retribution attack".
The declassified, grainy, black-and-white aerial videos from Saturday’s raid showed US special operations forces closing in on the compound and US aircraft firing on bully boyz nearby.
The most dramatic video showed a massive, black plume of smoke rising from the ground after US military bombs leveled Baghdadi’s compound.
"It looks pretty much like a parking lot, with large potholes," said Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of US Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East.
McKenzie, briefing Pentagon news hounds, said the idea of destroying the compound was at least in part "to ensure that it would not be a shrine or otherwise memorable in any way.
"It’s just another piece of ground," he said.
| Courtesy of Rantingly, the video can be seen here. |
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