Published 14:43 IST, October 28th 2019
'US knows successors of Baghdadi': President Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump announced that ISIS founder al-Baghdadi was killed in a military operation; Baghdadi Baghdadi blew himself in his suicide vest
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" US kws successors of deceased ISIS leer Abu Bakr al-Baghdi and is alrey tracking m", President Donald Trump said on Sunday. Trump anunced on Sunday that Baghdi blew himself in his suicide vest as he was chased to de end of a tunnel by US service dogs during an American raid in rthwest Syria.
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"We kw successors and we've alrey got m in our sites and we'll tell you that right w. But we kw successors," he told reporters after his major anuncement. Responding to questions, Trump said early this year US troops h killed Hamza bin Len, son, and successor of deceased al-Qaeda leer Osama bin len.
"Hamza bin Len was a big thing. But this is biggest ever. Osama bin Len was very big, but Osama bin Len became big with world tre center. This is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it, a country, a caliphate. And was trying to do it again," Trump said. "I h t heard too much about his health. I've heard stories about he may t have been in good health. But he died in a ruthless vicious manner that I can tell you," he said.
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Baghdi came to prominence in 2014, when he anunced creation of a "caliphate" in areas of Iraq and Syria. ISIS carried out a number of atrocities that resulted in thousands of deaths. "I don't want to talk about it, but he was screaming, crying and whimpering. He was scared out of his mind. Think of James Foley, think of Kayla, think of things he did to Kayla, what he did to Foley and so many ors. And for those people that say, Oh, isn't this a little violent?" he asked.
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"Think of how many times have you seen men? I think in all cases, men for most part, but in terms of this where you see orange suits and you see ocean and y'd beheed. Or how many of you got to see Jordanian pilot whose plane went down, y captured him. y put him in a c and y set m on fire," Trump said. This was al-Baghdi and you should never, ever, hopefully see a thing like that again, he said.
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Trump said that new people will emerge, but ISIS leer was worst of this world. "This was worst, probably in certain ways, smartest. He was also a coward and he didn't want to die," Trump said. "Everybody was out and we were able to search him down and find him in tunnel. We knew tunnel existed and that's where he was," he ded.
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14:19 IST, October 28th 2019