Lawfare Archive: Syria and The Al-Baghdadi Raid
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🗓️ 5 February 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
From October 28, 2019: President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, died in a raid conducted by U.S. Special Operation Forces. The president used highly unusual language to describe the raid, including that al-Baghdadi “died like a dog.” He also stated that the U.S. would be “leaving soldiers to secure the oil.” Scott R. Anderson and Dan Byman join Benjamin Wittes to discuss the raid, what it means for the future of the Islamic State, Trump’s speech and what it all means for the broader region.
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| 0:29.0 | I'm Kathryn Pompilia with an episode from the LawFair Archive for February 5th, 2022. |
| 0:45.0 | Earlier this week, President Joe Biden announced that U.S. Special Forces |
| 0:49.0 | successfully completed a counterterrorism operation that killed Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashimi Al-Quriyashi, |
| 0:54.0 | the leader of the Islamic State. |
| 0:56.0 | The operation was the largest U.S. raid in Syria since the 2019 mission |
| 1:00.0 | that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bukar Al-Bukdadi. |
| 1:03.0 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from October 2019, |
| 1:08.0 | in which Scott R. Anderson, Dan Bimon, and Benjamin Wittis discussed the raid that killed Al-Bukdadi, |
| 1:13.0 | what it meant for the future of the Islamic State, |
| 1:16.0 | former President Trump's speech announcing the operation, |
| 1:19.0 | and what it all meant at the time for the broader region. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis, and this is the LawFair podcast. |
| 1:28.0 | Special edition, October 28th, 2019, Abu Bukar Al-Bukdadi has been killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Syria. |
| 1:40.0 | The President says he died like a dog, whimpering, and crying, |
| 1:47.0 | and gave a remarkable statement, victory lap, football spiking on Sunday morning. |
| 1:58.0 | We put together a quick group to discuss the implications for ISIS and U.S. policy in Syria. |
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