DESTROYED BY DELTA.... IS LEADER TARGETED IN HIS LAIR
October 26th, 5pm Washington Donald Trump goes into the White House situation room, alongside his generals and the Vice President Mike Pence to watch the events unfold in ‘real time’. ‘Lift off started moments after that’, Trump says.
1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta deploy on 8 helicopters from an air base in Iraq on a journey over ‘very very dangerous territory’ taking 1 hour 10 minutes. ‘We flew very low and very fast’, says Trump. The US helicopters fly over Russian-controlled airspace during the mission.
6 US commandos engage in a fierce firefight, clearing the compound of fighters. Baghdadi’s family and followers either surrender or are shot and killed. Eleven children are moved out of the house uninjured. Two wives in undetonated suicide vests are discovered. There are ‘more dead than alive’, says Trump.
7 Baghdadi runs into a tunnel, dragging three children with him ‘to certain death’. Delta forces and K-9 dog units pursue him.