Trump described al-Baghdadi as 'whimpering & crying' before he died. Can you confirm those details?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

REPORTER: Gen. Milley, President Trump described al-Baghdadi as 'whimpering & crying' before he died. Can you confirm those details?

GEN. MILLEY: I don't know what the source of that was.

Link to tweet

OCTOBER 28, 2019
Pentagon Briefing on Raid That Killed ISIS Leader
Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley revealed new details into a raid that ended with the suicide death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. They said video and photographs from raid would be made public following declassification.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "I don't know what the source of that was." I do.

It came from the dark, stinky recesses of Fat Nixon's colon.

[Raster]

2. No kidding. al-Baghdadi blew himself up with a suicide vest he was wearing...

...I VERY MUCH DOUBT there was any type of scene described by FAT NIXON.

[lapfog_1]

3. my theory

some poor schlub that LOOKED like Baghdadi and was strapped with a bomb vest (remotely triggered when he was trapped)

who didn't speak English of course.


Probably the same person who was the source of the used underwear and blood given to the Americans as "from Baghdadi" for the DNA test (they learned from Bin Laden). A plan put in place probably months in the making.

Baghdadi hasn't been making much noise in the last few years... so he might be dead already or has been spirited out of the area a long time ago.

[matt819]

4. Are any responsible news outlets confirming anything?

Right now they all seem to be reporting what is being reported from the WH.

The Russians have questioned the WH reporting, including that the raid took place.

We know - or at least strongly believe, thanks to Pete Souza - that the photo of the buffoon watching the raid was staged. Whether it was or wasn't, WTF was the story with all those cables?

-- So. . . Are there any independent sources for the following?
-- Did the raid take place?
-- Did the raid take place where it was reported that it took place?
-- Which other country/countries supported the raid, and how? The Russians have already said nope. What have the Turks said? And did the Turks and the Kurds cooperate?
-- Some people say that the military carried out the raid without Trump's prior knowledge so that he wouldn't reveal it to the world. Was this true?
-- Was it Baghdadi who was killed? After all, he has been reported killed 6 times before.
-- Was Baghdadi in a wheel chair? Was he wearing a suicide vest? If so, doesn't that strike you as weird, assuming he didn't know the raid, if it took place, was about to take place?
-- Did he run down a tunnel? Did he wheel chair down a tunnel?
-- Were children killed? Is this SOP for this sort of raid?
-- If the raid took place and if the photo was staged, was Trump in fact playing golf when US Special Forces risked their lives for an election campaign?

Thanks to Obama, many Isis fighters were imprisoned. How active has Isis been in recent years and to what degree has Baghdadi been active in planning terrorist attack? And now, thanks to Trump, Isis fighters are available to take up the fight once more. To what degree is Isis set up to allow others to plan and conduct terrorist attacks without Baghdadi or his possible second in command who was reportedly killed in the past few days?

Anyone?



Call me a cynic, but I don't believe anything coming from the WH (and fuck Nate Silver for his tweet re giving Trump his due on this raid).

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. [We know or suspect that] the photo of the buffoon watching the raid was staged.

Not so fast.

Was a Photo of Trump in the White House Situation Room Staged?
Critics claimed a picture of President Trump watching a raid in Syria unfold from the White House was actually taken after the fact.
DAVID MIKKELSON
PUBLISHED 27 OCTOBER 2019

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Realistic answer: "Of course not, it was probably projection.

... Mr. Trump imagined how he would behave if his own scam had been fully exposed, and he was cornered by people who were determined to put a stop to him, one way or another. He tried to imagine taking three of his children with him, could obviously decide that Don Jr and Eric would be two of them, but couldn't decide on the third."

[MineralMan]

7. The Source for That Was Trump's Addled Brain

Simple.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I think it came from a somewhat lower region of his anatomy.

[MineralMan]

13. That's where he keeps his brain.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Trump will be doing the same on Nov. 4th, 2020.

[volstork]

10. it's just

more projection on trump's part. We will see him whimpering and crying before it's all over...

[spanone]

11. Well general, the source of that was donald trump

[TidalWave46]

12. I find this to be truly disgusting on Trumps part.

Say we did execute someone who was whimpering and crying... No one should ever hear about that.

I am now and have always been opposed to executions. I do get that some do find them necessary and I accept that I'm in the minority. Never should a President say that we executed someone who was whimpering and crying.