i m fredricka whitfield. isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi was killed in a raid, u.s. forces using the cover of night after tracking him down at a secret compound near the border with turkey. the white house issuing this photo showing a moment inside the situation room during the raid. al baghdadi s death is being seen as a deathly blow to isis. the president went into explicit details about abu baghdadi s death. he went into the turn whimpering and screaming. he was a sick and depraved man. and now he s gone. baghdadi was vicious and violent, and he died in a vicious and violent way as a coward, running and crying. this raid was impeccable and could only have taken place with the acknowledgment and help of certain other nations and people. i want to thank the nations of russia, turkey, syria and iraq, and i also want to thank the syrian kurds for certain support they were able to give us. all right, let s begin with cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, a lot
To present the president with a confrontational letter. but the coup in yemen meant he was no longer in office to make that trip. i can t believe i m holding the letter that my grandfather was carrying with him. the letter that never made it to iraq. ifound this among my family archive. this could be the reason why my grandfather was killed. the letter accuses iraq of meddling in north yemen s affairs and threatening its stability. iraq, at the time, was ruled by the arab nationalist ba ath party. in 1974, al bakr was the president and saddam was the vice president, but who was in power? saddam was completely in power in 1974.
So, why would saddam hussein have wanted to kill my grandfather? if, like we think, that the message was being carried to iraq, then we have to expect that saddam was trying to intercept the message before it found its way to al bakr. and, of course, saddam wouldn t want to kill someone on his own turf, because that will be all on him. so, that s what makes beirut an ideal spot for that crime. what i don t understand is, why would saddam have the motive to kill him, if my grandfather was no longer in power at that point? one thing you need to always remember about saddam was that his claim to fame was violence. if anyone threatened him by half a percentage point, he d take them out. my grandfather was tasked
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It was being planned and the intelligence was being firmed up. then as you get close to execution, you have to start allowing for a little bit wider circle because you have to deal with the actual execution of it, in this case air space concerns and in the aftermath in terms of explaining it. my guess would be they didn t inform russia or turkey, you know, as it was getting ready to be launched. probably just before the aircraft entered spaces that they needed to enter is my guess they would have delayed that to a maximum to protect security. the president did say there was an informant of russia in that air space issue. the president said there really was no correlation between the locating of al bakr and this u.s. troop pullout from syria. no real correlation here, but do you see that in some way there was an assist by u.s. troops
Wouldn t that be nice? a good outcome. and some other shia who puts his country first rather than just the shias first gets elected. that would be good. i don t know what happens with bashar either. i think a real chance in six months, the neighborhood, including some of the sunnis and some of the shias have overreached too. al bakr has overreached. might be in a better place. what do we do? we act carefully. i ve been saying that don t do stupid stuff plus drones is not a foreign policy which i believe. but i also think that we could overreach and we can t pick sides between israeli and hamas right this minute. that will not be helpful. that could backfire big time. i also think we have to be careful and not become maliki s army. jane harman, thank you very