Video has emerged from Syria showing explosions at the same time U.S. troops carried out their raid on Islamic State leader’s Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s compound, Sunday, October 27. The footage appears to support official accounts and local reporting of events related to the raid and regional experts have confirmed the accents are consistent with the area. –––––––––
READ MORE: President Donald Trump said Sunday he cloaked the raid to kill Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in secrecy, telling only his closest advisers, two Republican lawmakers and no opposition Democrats in advance, for fear of leaks about the operation.
Trump told reporters at the White House that Russia was given a heads-up that a mission was underway but not the details.
The U.S. leader said he informed Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a key political ally in Congress, Senator Lindsey Graham, but no others. He did not inform such key Democrats as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence panel who also is leading the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Trump, who normally would be informed of such an important U.S. military operation..
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