"Something very big has just happened!" - Part 3

He got his Obama watching the raid on Osama bin Laden moment.

Baghdadi detonated a suicide best and killed himself and three of his children, Trump said. “He died like a dog, he died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place.”

  Guardian

Everybody's always doing whatever thing they do as a loser "like a dog" in Trump's world.

And yet...



Tribute and insult in the same speech.  ("Our canine. I call it a dog."  Jesus.)*

Trump said US forces were engaged with “massive firepower” as they arrived at the building where Baghdadi was sheltering with his family and associates.

“The compound had to be cleared at this time with people either surrendering or being shot and killed,” he said. “Eleven young children were moved out of the house and are uninjured.

“The only ones remaining were Baghdadi in the tunnel and he had dragged three of his young children with him. They were led to a certain death. He reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down.

“[Baghdadi] ignited his vest, killing himself and the three children,” Trump said. “Test results gave certain immediate and totally positive identification, it was him.”

[...]

“The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, total panic and fear, terrified of the American forces bearing down on him,” Trump said.

Presaging his own last moments in office?

Baghdadi’s death is likely to be a significant fillip for Trump, who has faced withering criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike for withdrawing troops from north-eastern Syria, effectively allowing Turkey to move against the US’s Kurdish allies in the region.

Which was, I'm going to go out on a limb and say, impetus for a push to find and kill al-Baghdadi.

Several Syrian rebel groups active in Idlib province say they had been asked by US officials over the past fortnight to establish whether senior Isis members were hiding in Idlib.

[...]

Baghdadi’s death is a devastating blow to a terror group that had run rampant across the region for five years from mid-2014, spawning gruesome terror attacks across the world, amplifying a mass refugee exodus and sparking a war to contain it that killed thousands of people and displaced millions more.

Throughout that time, Baghdadi remained the face of Isis: a fearsome implacable ideologue who eluded the world’s intelligence agencies while continuing to incite a war of civilisations.

They have another one who's been waiting in the wings for this moment.

UPDATE:

Does this need to be said?



*UPDATE:

It's worse than that.  What he actually said was, "A canine as they call it.  I call it a dog."

UPDATE:

Yes, General, you do know.  We all know.  HE was the source.