U.S. officials who also watched the feed of the raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Syrian compound “have declined to echo details” of President Trump’s macabre account of the Isis’s leader death on Saturday, including that Baghdadi was “whimpering, crying and screaming all the way,” the Guardian reports.
Doubts Grow Over Trump’s Dramatic Account of Raid
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