President Donald Trump of the United States of America announced yesterday that ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “died like a dog” as the result of a U.S. Special Ops forces raid on his hideout in northwest Syria.
“Last night the United State brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,’ Trump said from the Diplomatic Reception Room, where just a week earlier he announced a ceasefire between Turkey and the Kurds.
“He was the founder and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world,” he said.
Al-Baghdadi, according to Trump, detonated his suicide vest, killing himself and three children, during an overnight targeted attack in Syria’s Idlib province.
He touted the operation and al-Baghdadi’s death as “bigger than bin Laden.” Osama bin Laden, founder of Al-Qaeda and the terrorist leader behind the September 11 terrorist attacks, was killed in 2011 during a Navy SEALs operation during Barack Obama’s presidency.
“This is the biggest there is. This is the worst ever. Osama bin Laden was big, but Osama bin Laden became big with the World Trade Center. This is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it, a country,” Trump said, referencing al-Baghdadi’s creation of the Islamic State.
President Trump addressed the nation Sunday morning, confirming that the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He said he had watched and monitored the whole operation Saturday night.
“I got to watch much of it. No personnel were lost in the operation, while a large number of Baghdadi’s fighters and companions were killed with him,” he said.
“He died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way,” Trump said.
“He reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. He ignited his vest, killing himself and the three children. His body was mutilated by the blast. The tunnel had caved in on it, in addition. But test results gave certain, immediate and totally positive identification. It was him. The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread, terrified of the American forces bearing down on him,” he said.