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Transcripts for MSNBC Lockup San Antonio - Extended Stay 20191027 05:06:00

This is very similar to what we saw in the bin laden raid, you ll recall. they took photos of bin laden to confirm that it was, in fact, him who they had targeted. we don t know what other possible intelligence they may have gathered at the site. it all happened very quickly according to the officials i spoke with, and there are no reports of any u.s. casualties in the mission. so, courtney, baghdadi has reportedly been in hiding for the last five years. any details on how he may have been located there near the turkish border in syria? reporter: no. and, you know, it s funny. it s a question that we ask probably well, frequently of u.s. military officials. do you know where baghdadi is? there have been rumors for some time. of course there was a time where we know he was in iraq. he gave his one of his most famous speeches at a mosque not far from where i m standing right now in mosul, iraq. but he s believed to have been hiding and moving throughout ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Lockup San Antonio - Extended Stay 20191027 05:23:00

We re told a u.s. special ops mission targeted the isis leader near ba isha, syria, overnight. the mission included helicopters, jets and u.s. drones. the u.s. received actionable intelligence from u.s. intelligence sources in recent days and after confirming it, the mission began late yesterday local time at around midnight. the u.s. fired from the air and then landed and gathered intelligence. forensic testing is under way, but they believe it was baghdadi and that he is among the dead. several others were also killed in a convoy. the officials said maybe four or five others were killed, but said it s not clear how many yet. no reports of any u.s. casualties. pentagon correspondent courtney kube joins us now on the phone. courtney she is live. i got up in front of the camera now. what can you tell us, ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Lockup San Antonio - Extended Stay 20191027 05:15:00

Really know who they were, then joined by folks from the free syrian army and folks from the iraqi, kurdish side who came together to fight the islamic state on the ground while the americans came from the air. this was the first time they handed a real defeat to the islamic state. so this is a moment that is five years, a half-decade in the making. gayle, thank you. that was gayle lemmon of the council on foreign relations. i d like to go now to katie bow williams, reporter from defense one. katie, what are you hearing about this latest news? yeah, i started getting indications that this operation was under way and that baghdadi was the target certainly earlier this evening. what we re hearing right now is that this was originally intended to be a capture mission, but that baghdadi actually detonated a suicide belt that he was wearing at the ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Lockup San Antonio - Extended Stay 20191027 05:05:00

Still inhabited by isis. it s not necessarily held by them as, like, a caliphate or as a land that they own and they govern, but there is still an isis presence in that area. so we know that there were a number of u.s. special operations forces. we think these are the most elite of the task force. they went in on helicopters. there was also fixed-wing jets and some u.s. drones that came in across the border from turkey into syria and launched this raid. we know that there was some fire from the air to the ground, but we don t have a really good sense of exactly whether the mission was to target a convoy, whether baghdadi was in some static area when they went after him. we do know there was fire from the air. at least one or more helicopters landed, and they were able to gather some intelligence. now, the u.s. officials i spoke with said that the intelligence included some sort of forensic evidence on the target, abu bakr al baghdadi. ....

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