ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI IS THE LEADER OF ISIS.
WRONG, WAS THE LEADER OF ISIS.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE GOT HIM.
IT APPEARS, WELL, WE DIDN'T GET HIM, THE RUSSIANS DID, BUT
STILL.
THE WORLD COMMUNITY HAS GOTTEN AL-BAGHDADI.
3 DIFFERENT SOURCES REPORTING THIS.
LET ME GIVE YOU WHAT THEY ARE.
THE SYRIAN OBSERVATORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, A RELIABLE MONITORING
GROUP BASED IN THE UK CLAIMS THEY HAVE SEEN CONFIRMED
INFORMATION THAT ISIS CHIEF ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI HAS BEEN
KILLED.
THE RUSSIAN MILITARY CLAIMED LAST MONTH THE JIHADIST
LEADER MOST LIKELY DIED AFTER THEY DID AN AIRSTRIKE AGAINST
AN ISIS GATHERING IN THE HEADQUARTERS IN RAQQA.
WELL, THOSE REPORTS WERE NEVER CLARIFIED BY AMERICAN
INTELLIGENCE, AFP, WHICH IS THE MAIN NEWS OUTLET IN FRANCE
PICKED UP A STATEMENT FROM SOHR DIRECTOR RAMI ABDULRAHMAN
CLAIMING AL-BAGHDADI'S DEATH WAS CONFIRMED BY THE
ISIS CHAIN OF COMMAND.
I'M GOING TO DOUBLE DOWN.
AMERICAN OFFICIALS HAVE NOT CONFIRMED IT, BUT TODAY
SOMEONE ELSE DID AND IT WAS ISIS.
ISIS CONFIRMED THAT HE PASSED AWAY.
I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR A LONG TIME UNFORTUNATELY OUR ADVERSARY WAS
QUITE INTELLIGENT AND HE DID THINGS THAT WERE BOLD AND
ACTUALLY DID PLAY THREE DIMENSIONAL CHESS TO SOME DEGREE
AND THAT WAS TERRIBLE NEWS BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT AN
ADVERSARY LIKE THAT AND THAT IS WHY THEY WERE ABLE TO GRAB A
HUGE CHUNK OF LAND AND RENEWABLE SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR THEMSELVES
IN BOTH IRAQ AND SYRIA AND CAUSE ALL OF THIS DAMAGE WORLDWIDE AND
I SAID THAT IF HE WAS TAKEN OUT, LIKELY ISIS WOULD FALL INTO
DISARRAY BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT A LOT OF OTHER BRILLIANT
MUSLIM RADICALISM RUNNING AROUND.
FUNDAMENTALISM DOES NOT LEND ITSELF TO GREAT ACUMEN IN
STRATEGY SKILLS.
AL-BAGHDADI, IF IT IS TRUE THAT HE IS GONE, I THINK IT WILL BE
ON
AN ENORMOUS SETBACK FOR ISIS.
I CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW BIG A SETBACK THAT WILL BE NOW.
IT IS
POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS AN ELABORATE RUSE BY ISIS TO
PRETEND THAT HE IS DEAD WHEN HE IS NOT, BUT I DON'T THINK THE
RUSSIANS WOULD WANT TO PLAY ALONG WITH THAT, LET ALONE THE
OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS THAT ARE REPORTING IT, SO NOT HUNDRED
PERCENT CONFIRMED YET, BUT PRETTY CLOSE AND IF THAT IS
TRUE, THAT IS PRETTY GREAT NEWS FOR THE WORLD AND YOU KNOW, I
WAS VERY FRUSTRATED WITH THE CIA BECAUSE THEY DO A LOT OF THINGS
WRONG AND THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE NEED THEM TO DO RIGHT SUCH AS
FIND HIM AND IT APPEARS THEY DIDN'T, THE RUSSIAN STATE DID
BUT I'LL TAKE IT EITHER WAY AND IT IS GOOD FOR THE WORLD.
ANOTHER NEWS RELATED TO ISIS, THEY HAVE LOST MOSUL.
THAT FELL VERY RECENTLY TO A COMBINATION OF TROOPS MAINLY LED
BY THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT AND SOME
OF OUR ALLIES SUCH AS THEY ARE AND SYRIA ARE ALSO NOW
BESEECHING RAGGA WHICH IS INSIDE SYRIA AND IS THE
SO-CALLED CAPITAL OF ISIS, BUT MOSUL WAS A VERY
IMPORTANT CITY IN IRAQ THAT ISIS HAD CAPTURED.
THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT HAS RECAPTURED IT AND AMERICAN
LEADERS
ON THE GROUND, MILITARY LEADERS ON THE GROUND, BESEECHING
BASICALLY THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO NOT MAKE THE SAME
MISTAKES THAT IT MADE IN THE PAST, WHICH WAS TO ALIENATE
SUNNIS IN IRAQ, AND NOT GIVE THEM ANY VOICE IN THEIR
GOVERNMENT WHICH THEN LEADS TO AN UPRISING WHICH NOW U.S.
MILITARY LEADERS ARE WARNING COULD LEAD TO AN ISIS 2.0.
THE LEADER OF ISIS IS DEAD, NOW LONG-LIVE THE NEW LEADER.
ACCORDING TO THE REPORTS, ISIS HAS NOT PICKED A NEW LEADER
YET, BUT WHEN WE WERE IN THE OLD DAYS OF KILLING THE
NUMBER THREE GUY IN AL QAEDA, THE NUMBER TWO GUY, WE
WOULD KILL AN ENDLESS LOOP NUMBER TWO AND NUMBER THREE
GUYS IN AL QAEDA AND THE PROBLEM WOULD NEVER GO AWAY THAT
THEY WOULD JUST GET A NEW UNTIED IN THE CASE OF ISIS, I
THINK KILLING THE NUMBER ONE GUY IS GOING TO HAVE A BIG IMPACT.
AFTERWARDS, TROUBLE TAKE CREDIT AND SAY SEE, I TOLD YOU I
WOULD TAKE CARE OF ISIS.
THE PLAN TO RETAKE MUSCLE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH DONALD
TRUMP, BUT YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN THOSE NUANCES TO HIS
FOLLOWERS ONCE THEY PUT ON THEIR RED HATS.