US Central Command rejects claims that Turkey's Operation Peace Spring delayed raid on Daesh leader Abu Bakr al Bagdhadi
Video of the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid is displayed as US Central Command Commander Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie speaks on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at a joint press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington DC, US.
Answering a question regarding the claims, he said "Absolutely not. We chose the time based on a variety of factors." Among the images released by the Defense Department was grainy black-and-white footage of US troops approaching on foot the high-walled compound in northwestern Syria where Baghdadi was holed up.
"About Baghdadi's last moments, I could tell you this," he said. "He crawled into a hole with two small children and blew himself up while his people stayed on the ground."McKenzie said that in addition to Baghdadi and the two children, four women and one man were killed at the compound.An unknown number of nearby fighters were also killed when they opened fire on US helicopters, McKenzie said.
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