The Pentagon held a press conference a few minutes ago and released footage of their raid on the Baghdadi compound. The video below is cued up to 42:57 where it begins:
Here’s a couple of clips I found on twitter:
BREAKING: Pentagon reveals video of al Baghdadi Raid pic.twitter.com/LPUezWLKpM
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) October 30, 2019
BREAKING: Pentagon releases new images and video of raid that led to the death of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi. pic.twitter.com/eYWLTLLz1S
— Tony Morrison (@THETonyMorrison) October 30, 2019
I’ll add some tweets from Central Command shortly…so check back in a few minutes.
"Baghdadi was the subject of an intense inter-agency effort to bring him to justice, and that effort significantly advanced recently as we closed in on his whereabouts."
– Gen Frank McKenzie CDR USCENTCOM— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"As it became clear that we had gained fleeting and actionable intelligence on his hideout, we developed an execution level plan designed to capture or kill him and started preparing a special operations team for the mission."
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"The general outline of the mission was a helicopter assault by special operation forces that were pre-staged in Syria…"
– Gen Frank McKenzie CDR USCENTCOM— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"I can assure you that the plan was significantly more complex than that, and designed to avoid detection by ISIS and others prior to and during execution, to avoid civilian casualties…"
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"Here we see the object of the assault-the compound where Baghdadi was hiding. As I noted earlier, this isolated compound was in Idlib province in Northwest Syria" – Gen Frank McKenzie CDR USCENTCOM pic.twitter.com/VwxRJMN0rS
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"…at the compound, fighters from two locations in the vicinity of the compound began firing on U.S. aircraft participating in the assault."
– Gen Frank McKenzie CDR USCENTCOM pic.twitter.com/SkrtHNDs7w— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"With the assault force surrounding the compound, we repeatedly urged those inside to come out peacefully."
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"I want to make it clear that despite the high-pressure and high-profile nature of this assault that every effort was made to avoid civilian casualties and to protect children we suspected would be in the compound."
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"When capture at the hands of U.S. forces was imminent, Baghdadi detonated a bomb killing himself and two young children."
– Gen Frank McKenzie CDR USCENTCOM— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"After Baghdadi's murder-suicide, our assault force cleared significant debris from the tunnel and secured Baghdadi's remains for DNA identity confirmation…"
– Gen Frank McKenzie CDR USCENTCOM pic.twitter.com/fNLtXcOMG4— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"The rapid analysis showed a direct match between the samples and produced a level of certainty that the remains belonged to Baghdadi of 1 in 104 septillion."
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019
"Baghdadi's remains were buried at sea in accordance with the Law of Armed conflict within 24 hours of his death."
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 30, 2019