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There. certainly documents, other materials and including they captured at least two isis commandos and theyre now being questioned presumably. so theyre going to get a lot of intelligence out of this. >> potentially theyll get a substantial amount of intelligence. weve seen that after other successful raids but the big question is who might secede baghdadi and what is the future of isis in syria or globally. i think one thing critical to understand is not just seans point about how important ou...

Leader, abu bakr al baghdadi. the images just declassified. quickly want to go to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, what are we seeing? what are we learning from these images? >> extraordinary to see this, wolf. this is a highly classified mission. clearly, president trump wanted the world to see these images. three videos were released a short time ago here at the pentagon. the first one shows as u.s. helicopters are beginning to approach the compound to land u.s. commandos to...

Detection and i wont go any further than that. >> what about the reward money, the $25 million. >> i have no visibility on that. sorry. >> that is going to go to the thank you so much. sorry to have do cut it short but we had a hard deadline and general thank you for coming in today to speak to everybody. >> pretty thorough briefing there from major general kenneth mckenzie, u.s. marine corp. how did the u.s. military central command briefing on the raid that wound up killing the isis leader abu...

Began a 48 hour countdown clock because baghdadis next relocation was thought to be imminent. as you said, the fascinating part, the reason the kurds new when baghdadi was is because a kurdish undercover operative was able to sneak into the terror leaders compound and steel a pair of his underwear. a rapid dna test and then confirmed with 100% accuracy that it was in fact baghdadi and a commander with the kurdish led syrian defense forces told fox news the kurds also had an informant inside the ...

Countdown clock because baghdadis next location was thought to be imminent. as he said, the fascinating part, the reason the kurds knew where he was, is because a kurdish undercover operative was able to sneak into the cheerleaders compound and steal a pair of his underwear. a rapid dna testing confirms with 100% accuracy that it was, in fact, baghdadi, and a commander with the courage led. a force defenses, told fox news he also had an informant inside the compound during the raid on the state ...

Then verify his identity, but the identity of the dog who participated in the raid is still classified and despite at least one news outlet releasing it, for those who think dog doxxing is fine, a retired three-star general says revealing name could inadvertently reveal the handlers name and the military unit used in the raid. a a big time security concern, especially while the unit remains in syria. tucker. >> tucker: a story with everything, from dog doxxing took trapped by underwear -- thats ...

Of the most consequential military operations of his presidency. that resulted in the death of one of the most reviled global terrorist abu bakr al-baghdadi. late today providing additional it tails and released these dramatic images of american commandos conducting the raid. there they are in action. missing from the presidents side during the raid was the presidents chief of staff mick mulvaney. one person close to the white house tells nbc news the president didnt include mulvaney because he ...

He was we can say a personal security official for al-baghdadi himself, the general said the informant, the general said, tracked al-baghdadi for five month providing a floor plan hed memorized of al-baghdadis last hide out, the number of guards, locations of tunnels and stealing a pair of al-baghdadi used underwear and a sample of blood to prove to the cia the source had the access he claimed. so far, president trump has been down playing the kurds role. >> they gave us some information that tu...

Syria this weekend in a raid by u.s. commandos. richard engel reports inside syria on the big assist the americans got to track down the leader of isis. >> reporter: this rubble is all thats left of isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadis last hideout as of tonight, were learning about the spy story that led u.s. troops to the compound the commander of kurdish-led forces tells us that they had a informant in al-baghdadis inner circle why was he doing this? he said his relatives faced very harsh treatm...

Incredibly important for those commandos who were going to carry out the raid. it makes it much safer when they know what theyre going into, how many guards, what the place looks like. but baghdadi was about to go into a new location on the turkish border, that he was going to go there in the next 48 to 72 hours, and they decided, we have to do it now before he moves. so a lot of things go into this planning. but the war was certainly a part of it. >> the president tweeted today that the likely ...