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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: US releases first images of raid on compound

2019-10-31 08:36:30       source:BBC

October 31, 2019


The US military has published the first footage of the raid in northern Syria in which the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group was killed.


Grainy video showed troops firing at militants on the ground as they flew towards the compound where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding before they moved in on the ground.


Baghdadi fled into a tunnel and killed himself by detonating a suicide vest.


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