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A Senior Turkish official on Al-Baghdadi raid; • Good day for the good guys • Turkey to continue working with US • Baghdadi arrived in 48hrs ago • Close coordination with relevant parties • Cannot comment on intel coop • Turkish mil had advance knowledge —
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#Baghdadi • US official says Turkey wasn’t notified. But Turkey says it exchanged info, coordinated • US official says they started the op a week ago. But Turkish official says Baghdadi arrived in 48 hours ago prior to the raid •YPG and Iraq: We shared intelShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Senior Turkish official to various international journalists: Turkish army had advance knowledge of the U.S. raid in Syria’s Idlib. And to best knowledge of Turkish official, Baghdadi arrived at location of U.S. op 48 hours prior to the raid.
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Tbh, “exchanging information” or “coordinating” don’t mean Turkey was notified that US was about to kill or capture ISIS leader al-Baghdadi. This could be very well coordinating US military activities for de-confliction purposes, and if Incirlik was used for authorisation
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BREAKING — Turkey exchanged information and coordinated with the US military counterparts before the US operation in Idlib, [which targeted ISIS leader al-Baghdadi], Turkish Defense Ministry says
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A US official told Newsweek that Turkey wasn’t notified about al-Baghdadi operation.
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Turkish officials are keeping radio silence since the news broke out that the US had killed ISIS leader Al Baghdadi in Syria Idlib, 5 km away from Turkish border
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Here is Syrian Kurdish YPG/SDF spokesperson takes the ownership of the US op that reportedly killed ISIS leader al Baghdadi. This one talks about beyond the intelligence sharing, as if they take place in the actual operationhttps://twitter.com/mustefabali/status/1188372866007519232?s=21 …
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So, this information implies that US officials had intelligence on the whereabouts of Baghdadi for a time and didn’t act on it until they were ordered to withdraw from Syria?
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• US official: Army’s elite Delta Force carried out the mission with the CIA providing intel/recon info on the ground. • Gen. John W. Brennan Jr., oversaw the mission, which had been staged for a week before taking place on Saturday, — NYT
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Why did US target ISIS leader Al/Baghdadi NOW? • American official: Senior military leaders decided that commandos should quickly kill or capture Senior terrorists before the completion of US withdrawal from Syria • US was concerned that it could lose ability to do so — NYT
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Senior YPG/SDF commander Polat Can double downs here, saying that it was joint YPG/US intel operation that facilitated ISIS leader al- Baghdadi ophttps://twitter.com/polatcanrojava/status/1188362155864797184?s=21 …
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Syrian Kurdish YPG/SDF head Mazlum Abdi is trying to claim the ownership of the US operation that is reportedly killed ISIS leader Al Baghdadi He says: “It was a successful and historical operation,the result of a joint intelligence work with the United States of America.”https://twitter.com/mazloumabdi/status/1188361357114171392 …
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Here is another aftermath video from ISIS leader Baghdadi operationpic.twitter.com/Uwfx0hS8UB
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Apparently source of this information was Newsweek, citing a US official: “Turkey, a NATO ally backing local insurgents, was not notified prior to the operation, the official said”
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US choppers could take off from Turkey’s Incirlik with a cover story, if you ask me.
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To understand where US exactly targeted and destroyed in Baghdadi operation. The location hit in Bashira, Syriapic.twitter.com/qF1xMSIcT7
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NEW — Pentagon DID NOT inform Turkey about the operation to kill ISIS leader Baghdadi in Syria’s Idlib before it happened, per Al Jazeera
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So this is how Baghdadi op happened; • US forces with choppers from Turkey’s Incirlik land in Bashira around 00:40 • Arabic speaking soldier asked civilians to leave • 3 men, 3 women, one child died • Compound destroyed after the op — AJ Arabicpic.twitter.com/zgLV5vVUgr
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Here is the location of the town Barisha in Syria’s Idlib where the Baghdadi operation occurred. Very close to Turkish borderpic.twitter.com/tv4LqlgQmq
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