President Trump’s elaborate tale of ISIS’s Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dying “like a dog” and a coward, whimpering pathetically all the while, and watching the whole thing in real time like a Hollywood film is raising eyebrows, mostly on the basis that it didn’t happen like he says.
It’s not just that Trump is known for embellishing on his accomplishments. Rather, officials say that the footage Trump and his staff were watching amounted only to overhead surveillance footage, with no audio, so he couldn’t have seen or heard much of what he claimed.
The story of Baghdadi fleeing into a tunnel “crying and screaming all the way” while being chased by a military dog, before whimpering and blowing himself us, killing himself and his children, and wounding the dog may all be a story, apart from a dog getting injured.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said he was unable to confirm any claims of Baghdadi whimpering, and the White House similarly said they have no idea where Trump got that, though neither is denying that it happened.
Whimpering is part of the official Trump story, and it’s politically risky to get in the way of such a story once it’s out there. That said, Trump had no audio, and couldn’t possibly have heard anything himself.
Adding to questions about the DNA test related to Baghdadi’s killing, the Kurdish SDF now claims that they’d seized Baghdadi’s underpants and used those for a DNA test before the raid, to 100% identify him.
Gen. Milley reported that Baghdadi’s corpse, or what’s left of it, was taken by US forces and “disposed of” at sea. Officials insists his body was gotten rid of appropriately, and no more photos or videos will be released.
I’m as skeptical that Bin Laden was actually killed in Pakistan in 2011.
Join the club…
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-big-lie-obama-did-not-kill-bin-laden/5448927
Ultimately, who cares? Except that the Dems were crowing about what was basically a murder, perpetrated on an old man by a crack team of well-armed assassins, whether you believe the murder actually took place. As a tentative Dem, this disgusted me.
don’t worry, Hollywood propagandist kathryn bigelow will embellish things some more and will soon be making a propaganda film I mean blockbuster movie about al-Baghdadi and how he ‘died like a dog’
Dead or Alive, in all cases, Al-Baghdadi was An American asset, you are right, Sir: Fit for a Blockbuster Movie for the ignorant audiance.
Jeffrey Epstein and Elliot Shimon are agents of a particular intelligence service, both retired this year.
I’d put Rita Katz on this one. She’ll stage a reenactment, complete with the actual actors involved. Mossad can grab al-Baghdadi, who’s probably sitting on a beach in Tel Aviv, for a few hours. The Hunt for al-Baghdadi, the sequel!
I’ll wait for the television series. Don’t forget that it will be established that Iran was actually behind al-Baghdadi. Watch any US TV show – it’s always the Iranians and the Russians behind everything – when it isn’t the Chinese.
The only exception is The Black List – where the lead character *is* a former Russian spy (although no one knew until season six) and the female lead is the daughter of his and her mother is a Russian spy – who, however, is a bad guy (woman). Great show, has run seven seasons, I watch it religiously.
There are books out documenting how deep the CIA is in Hollywood. The CIA owns it just like they own ninety percent of the mainstream media.
The only show I’ve seen recently that isn’t devoted to Iranian or Russian conspiracy theory is “Deep State” – which is devoted to the “conspiracy theory” (i.e., truth) that the US military-industrial complex runs the CIA. And that show got canceled after season two.
They “disposed of at sea” … seriously?
George Kennedy was supposed to be buried at His Family Cemetery but all of a sudden was disposed of at sea, Why?
Trump’s Fanciful version was that the US forces took DNA samples after Baghdadi had blown himself up and that they where able to remove the debris and take some of Baghdadi`s body parts with them.
So who`s version is it……or maybe a third or forth version will show up soon.
The timing suggests they could have gotten him much earlier but waited till the political usability was optimal.
Very little difference between Trump & Hillary Clinton. Trump has a pretty wife, Hillary doesn’t.
I know it’s just a technicality but have you seen her girlfriend ? 😉
Huh? There’s a world of difference between Hillary and Trump. The end result of a Presidency with either of them would be bad, but that doesn’t mean there’s little difference between the two.
Trump needs constant attention for his ego, and also needs to profit personally, or at least be seen as ‘winning,’ hence his bombastic and exaggerated take on world events (everything is “the best ever,” “the worst ever,” “the biggest ever.” He’s ‘never wrong,’ even though he knows virtually nothing about governing.
Hillary backs the Establishment 110%, and feels the USA can do little wrong when it sticks its nose in foreign policy matters. She hasn’t learned from the last 19 years of interventions or the half-century before that.
Either way, the avg American is screwed, the gov’t spends money like a drunk sailor, and the citizens of whichever country we’re bombing or supplying arms to, lose out at as well.
And they all liked to fly on the “Lolita Express.”
“Trump needs constant attention for his ego, and also needs to profit personally”
And you think Hillary doesn’t? Seriously? The woman is thinking of running for President *again* – and has made hundreds of millions selling access to the State Department.
Even Trump wasn’t *that* crass – mostly because he has his own money. Although one of the two reasons he ran for President is that he’ll make a ton of money once he leaves office due to the cache of making deals with a President. The other reason was ego.
So the two are mirror images of each other.
He probably overdosed on Oxycontin in the flying CIA whorehouse now ran by the next Jeffry Epstein.(Bill Clinton perhaps?)
Meanwhile, the Russians claim there were no US aircraft operating in Idlib province at the time. Can’t Pentagon stage crafters come up with a tiny tidbit of physical evidence to corroborate that this event even happened? Guess with the US MSM swallowing whole everything they say, they don’t have to. It’s been this way since 9/11, at least.
Spokesman for the UN Secretary General says the world body cannot verify the accuracy of the United States’ claim on the death of Daesh leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
“We’ve taken note of the announcement by the President of the United States on the death of Abu Bakr al‑Baghdadi, the leader of the UN‑designated terrorist group Daesh,” Farhan Haq said in a press briefing Monday.
However, he said the UN “cannot personally verify the accuracy of this.”
Not only do I not trust anything General Bonespur says, there are also reports that the Russian ministry of defense has said that they have no records of any such air raids in that area. I will believe the Russians any time over our government or its corporate presstitutes. That’s how bad it has become…..
This is why I always keep my underpants in the safe. The dirty ones at least.
Trump lied yet again about something pointless, except to his massive yet fragile ego. It’s very important to Trump, for whatever reason, that his enemies are vanquished utterly, and die or fail crying and begging Trump for mercy. Life is a zero-sum game for Trump, if anyone else on the planet is doing well for themselves, then they must be doing so at Trump’s expense.
The holes in this article and the “Guardian” which it is linked to is massive. American troops on the ground no doubt had communication with the Pentagon and they relayed what they saw and heard and it would reach the president almost immediately. Antiwar is coming anti-truth and fact joining I am afraid a corrupt mainstream media.
The compound that Trump attached belong to a Al Qaeda commander not Baghdadi……! It’s Just a matter of time Baghdadi’s head would pop out in the news…!
No matter what you believe, listen and think.
The Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whom US President Donald Trump claimed had been killed, was in fact a US or an Israeli agent, says an American scholar.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/10/29/609876/Daesh-Leader-Abu-Bakr-alBaghdadi-Interview-Barrett
‘Terrorist Mastermind ID’d Via Panty Raid’
Best headline ever?
So once again, another story of some big-wig “terrorist” getting killed has sixteen different versions. That was true about the leaders of the insurgency in Iraq, it was true about Saddam’s sons in Iraq, it was true about Saddam, it was true about bin Laden – and it’s true in this one.
Just assume nothing you’ve read is true and you’ll be way ahead of everyone else.
Better yet, don’t even bother to read about it because it’s completely irrelevant to ISIS or anything else happening in Syria or anywhere else. It’s just another dead body – which is not exactly rare – even assuming anything actually happened.