{"id":1041,"date":"2019-10-30T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2019-10-30T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:18:38","slug":"the-hollywood-death-of-baghdadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2019\/10\/30\/the-hollywood-death-of-baghdadi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hollywood death of Baghdadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They\u2019ve killed Baghdadi \u2013 again. It has been reported all over the mainstream media. The story goes that on or about 11:30 pm Syria time, 26 Oct 2019, there was a raid by American special forces on a compound where one Ab\u016b Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding out with his wife, his supposed children and other children as well, during which Baghdadi blew himself up with a suicide vest rather than being captured, along with three children. It was like a scene from a Hollywood film. Problem is, there are probably good reasons to doubt the story is true, at least in certain details.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This raid comes on the heels of the Turkish Peace Spring operation, at a time when Turkish\/US relations are at an all-time low. It also takes place at the beginning of campaign season in the US, with Trump facing impeachment investigations, with a shaky US economy (despite what we hear), with the Turkish advance into Syria having halted due to Russian diplomacy and so forth. In short, the timing of the raid appears to be more than\u00a0 a little \u2018convenient\u2019, which we will outline in part.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We will get to the chart of the event in a bit. There are several things that do not add up about the story, as well as conflicting stories, confusing the narrative as told by the White House. <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-50200703\">There is a BBC article<\/a><\/span> that gives probably the most detailed description of events, linked below. But their story does not gibe with observations on the ground. There are quotes from the article and then the questionable bits, unfolded as we go along:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe raid was launched from Iraq\u201d: If so, the flight to Idlib would have taken almost two hours by helicopter, depending. The flight from the Iraqi <em>border<\/em> in <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Syria\/@34.7323425,34.5106638,6z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x1518e6dc413cc6a7:0x877546f4882af620!8m2!3d34.802075!4d38.996815\">the shortest distance<\/a><\/span> to the Turkish border at Idlib is just at 250 miles. The helicopters flew out of Al-Asad airbase in Iraq, it was reported (app. 400 miles). The top speed of a <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/89e8716887514b95af5fea38d604ee30\">CH-47 helicopter<\/a><\/span> is 170 knots (196 mph). The math is simple. The BBC reported the transit time was about an hour and ten minutes. More likely is that the raid originated in Turkey, or perhaps from al-Tanf.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe helicopters arrived at destination at about 1:00 am local time\u201d: Reports on the ground say that the raid took place at 9:30 UT (11:30 pm local time). They would have left at\u00a0 just before 6:00 pm DC time (EDT) for a 1hr 10m transit time. Trump stated he arrived at the situation room around 4:30 pm. \u00a0Then there is this:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cAt around 5 pm, he [Trump] gathered in the White House Situation Room with Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, national security adviser Robert O\u2019Brien, and other intelligence officials. <em>They watched the raid unfold live \u201cas if you were watching a movie,\u201d<\/em> said Trump. <em>Moments after they gathered<\/em>, U.S. military personnel and military dogs lifted-off in eight helicopters from an unidentified military base in the Middle East, according to Trump. The personnel came from the Delta Force, one of the U.S. special units mainly focused on counter-terrorism and often deployed to capture high-value targets. <em>A U.S. official told Reuters the operation was staged from an airbase in western Iraq<\/em>. The on-the-ground operation in the Idlib region of Syria was supported by military aircraft and ships, said Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Problem is, <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.syriahr.com\/en\/?p=145453\">The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights<\/a><\/span> (SOHR), which has usually been pretty reliable at reporting the timing of events and casualties, reported that the raid took place at 9:30 UT. That would mean that the helicopters would have had to leave well before 4:30 pm EDT (DC time). There is a four hour time difference between EDT and UT. That means that Trump would have been on the golf course when the mission started. Trump <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/trumpgolfcount.com\/displayoutings\">would have been playing golf at the time<\/a><\/span> of the mission in progress \u2013 not starting \u201cmoments after he entered the situation room\u201d. Trump\u2019s recounting of events is clearly obfuscation or confusion of the facts. Or is it? If the BBC article is true, he didn\u2019t observe the entire mission. How can we say that with certainty?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syriahr.com\/en\/?page_id=1030\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The SOHR<\/span><\/a> observes events from on the ground in Syria, in the opposition and government regions alike, not in newsrooms thousands of miles away. The BBC article, linked in the first bullet point above, is clearly off the mark. Further, the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/defense\/1085522\">Russian Ministry of Defense says there is no evidence of air activity over Syria<\/a><\/span> at the time of the raid. Russian radar tracks everything in Syria. If there had been helicopters over Syria, they would have known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/10\/28\/20936137\/isis-baghdadi-raid-military-dog\">It was stated<\/a><\/span> that the helicopters flew over territory controlled by Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Russia, (norther Syria in the Pace Spring zone) which is another obfuscation. The Russians have S-300 and S-400 installations in Syria, on the coast of the Mediterranean and inland. <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S-400_missile_system\">The S-400<\/a><\/span>, of which there are two in Syria, even if located on the coast, can \u2018see\u2019 into Iraq almost to Mosul, to Ankara and to the southern tip of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1042 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/s400_range.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/s400_range.png 758w, https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/s400_range-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There is no unmonitored airspace in the region. The Russians and Syrians would have had good data on what was taking place in the air. And Chinook helicopters do not have stealth capabilities, especially if having taken off from Iraq, not that it would matter (both the S-400 and S-300 can track stealth aircraft). The only way to approach and avoid detection the whole time is to fly behind the mountains on the far western side of the village where the raid took place, along the Mediterranean coast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">So, here is another possibility: Trump\u2019s recounting of the timeline is true. If so, then the mission would have started shortly after 11:00 pm local time, meaning the transit time would have been at most half an hour, or about 95 miles in a Chinook copter at top speed. That would place the takeoff point for the mission most likely at Incirlik air base, in Turkey. So, either the Russians are lying about not knowing (possible), there is deliberate misinformation about the length of the journey given to news sources (likely), or Trump spilled the beans (also likely). <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/officials-cringe-trump-spills-sensitive-details-al-baghdadi-raid-n1073001\">Trump has been known to disclose sensitive information<\/a><\/span> that is normally kept under wraps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Then, there is the famous \u2018underwear DNA\u2019 instant analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cLab technicians conducted an onsite DNA test to make sure and <em>within 15 minutes of his death, positively identified the target<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Apparently, such machines for near instant analyses of DNA do exist, but <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/how-us-commandos-ided-a-mutilated-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-so-quickly?ref=scroll\">neither of the ones mentioned<\/a><\/span> does so in less than one hour, at least not those we know of:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cIn 2015, SOCOM officials revealed that commandos had begun using two new types of a small and portable DNA lab: the RapidHIT 200 from California-based IntegenX and the DNAscan from NetBIO in Massachusetts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A quick search on the units mentioned shows the fastest one takes about an hour, and the other comes in at 90 minutes, not the 15 minutes <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/89e8716887514b95af5fea38d604ee30\">recounted by the AP<\/a><\/span>. And the reference DNA supposedly came <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/10\/sdf-al-baghdadi-underwear-stolen-dna-tested-raid-191029070259141.html\">from Baghdadi\u2019s soiled underwear<\/a><\/span>, obtained through his wife\/defector\/daughter\/undercover source (?!). Or, it was collected when he was a prisoner during the Iraq war. And we are certain said \u2018underwear\u2019 was from Baghdadi? OK&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">So, we see there are inconsistencies in the stories. The above may seem to be splitting hairs, but there is a point to it. Firstly, it reveals the inconsistency in reporting, beyond human error. Secondly, it goes to illustrate facts on the ground in the region. And thirdly, it supports what is shown in the chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Aside from the preceding, then, there is no body, Baghdadi\u2019s remains were given \u2018<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/isis-leader-founder-abu-bakr-al-baghdadis-remains\/story?id=66591175\">a burial at sea<\/a><\/span>\u2019 (dumped in the sea in contravention of <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islamic_funeral\">Islamic tradition<\/a><\/span>. Plus, why would they care if he was such a criminal?), no video, although we are told by Trump that some <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/news\/article\/Why-Obama-didn-t-release-footage-of-the-raid-that-14568641.php\">unclassified video may be coming<\/a><\/span>, and then there is the picture of the brave canine who \u2018pursued the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/pentagon-can-t-confirm-al-baghdadi-whimpering\/564020862\/\">whimpering<\/a><\/span> and terrified Baghdadi\u2019 (maybe not) into the dead-end tunnel. G\u2019boy! (Not to insult the dog or the service members. We have three dogs at home. Everyone loves dogs, almost. The problem with focusing on the dog is with the spin on the story and using the dog\u2019s image for stirring patriotic fervor and media ratings.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1043 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/conan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We\u2019re told the dog\u2019s name is \u2018<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimLaPorta\/status\/1188911522472443904?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">Conan<\/a><\/span>\u2019 \u2013 if that\u2019s her real name, and if it is a \u2018she\u2019. Now the Twitter-sphere is alight with outrage over outing &#8216;Conan&#8217;, as it exposes sensitive information about special forces. Rightly so. Beautiful dog, by the way, but if you want to keep the identity secret, don\u2019t tweet out pictures of her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With all this in mind \u2013 and there is <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/hasty-burial-sea-other-baghdadi-raid-details-which-parallel-bin-laden-death-mythology\">much more we could parse<\/a><\/span> \u2013 what does the chart say, which brings us to probably the most important consideration for this piece \u2013 the spin factor? The chart is set for 11:30 pm local time (EET, as observed by the SOHR) in Idlib province (close enough for our purposes, as we do not have an exact time). The chart is below (<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/malvinartley.com\/PDF%20Files\/charts\/baghdadi_raid.png\">bigger<\/a><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1044 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baghdadi_raid-1024x567.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baghdadi_raid-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baghdadi_raid-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baghdadi_raid-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baghdadi_raid.png 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The main factor that stands out and which is central to the chart is the Moon\/Mars conjunction in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> house, quincunx Neptune in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> house. This was a covert operation, with covert operations being ruled by the 12<sup>th<\/sup> house. The 12<sup>th<\/sup> in this chart is ruled by Cancer, and hence by the Moon. The Mars conjunction marks the military aspect of the operation. The 3<sup>rd<\/sup> house rules the media. This was a made-for-TV event, as evidenced by the Neptune quincunx and the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> house placement. The Neptune aspects point to the contrasting stories\/confusion\/obfuscation\/outright\/lies \u2013 take your pick. The placement in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> house points to \u2018a mysterious death\u2019, or the illusion of the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The illusory nature of events is also notable by the Sun\/Neptune sesquisquare, with the Sun conjunct the IC in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> house (public consumption) also opposite Uranus, the latter in the 9<sup>th<\/sup> and conjunct the MC. This event was an effort to change the narrative, it would seem, with Uranus adding to the surprise of the event and accentuating the contradictory telling of events between various sources. The Mars\/Neptune quincunx shows the effort to move hearts and minds and to stir belief systems. The Sun\/Uranus opposition can also indicate an excitable nature, muddle-headedness, contradictory natures and even trouble-makers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Then, the Leo rising gives the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ewCSNOyl2Ds\">dramatic recounting of events<\/a><\/span>, echoed throughout American media. Finally, Saturn was sextile Neptune, suggesting \u2018controlled illusions\u2019 or perhaps \u2018dreams made reality\u2019. What does this event leave\u00a0 us with, then? Very little, really.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Killing Baghdadi, or whoever it was, will not change events on the ground in any appreciable manner. Daesh has already been defeated. It is not dead, but it has been pushed underground. <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2019\/10\/isis-death-baghdadi-new-leader-qardash.html\">Daesh has already selected another leader<\/a> <\/span>and is probably already changing its plans, given Trump has blurted out that sensitive documents were taken from the site. It is not necessarily a top-down organization and is comprised of many factions. There was also something more to the story here and it goes back to the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> paragraph of this article: Trump needed a \u2018win\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The troop withdrawal prior to the commencement of Peace Spring enraged many of Trump\u2019s erstwhile allies in Washington and abroad. It was an off the cuff move, made in a hurry and without consultation or planning. We turned tail and ran, basically, while the Kurdish civilians pelted the troops with stones and potatoes. Yet, Trump has been trying to get the troops out since last year. But, the pushback in trying to do so forces him to backtrack. That is what the troops heading back into Syria from Iraq to \u2018protect the oil\u2019 is all about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump had to throw the military-industrial complex (hence the Congressional feed trough) and Israel a bone, or the impeachment proceedings against him would have accelerated quickly. <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2019\/10\/27\/turkey-al-baghdadi-and-the-fly-theory\/\">It is the lobbies in Washington that direct policy<\/a><\/span>, not presidents. Plus, all his talk about the world being a much safer place now that Baghdadi is gone is rich, considering the US funded and promoted Daesh. But, the impeachment brouhaha has calmed down now to a degree as a result of the repositioning of troops at the oil fields. However, <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/heres-why-trumps-secure-syrias-oil-plan-will-be-impossible-implement\">that \u2018secure the oil\u2019 gambit will be impossible to keep afloat<\/a><\/span> in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In closing, this event, even if it was Baghdadi who was killed, is about <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2019\/10\/28\/al-baghdadi-raid-is-the-us-empire-creating-reality\/\">Washington seeking to create its own reality<\/a><\/span> and shifting the finish line yet again. And if it was Baghdadi, good on the special forces and good riddance to a bad dude. When it comes to it, though, we keep troops in Syria and elsewhere because we need the illusion of a dangerous enemy in a region in order to justify occupying territories, justify defense spending (which\u00a0 means American jobs) and exploit the resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This Baghdadi cat has reportedly <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/al-baghdadi-has-now-been-killed-three.html\">been killed at least three times<\/a><\/span>, if not more. We hear tell that <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160615025120\/http:\/controversialtimes.com\/isis\/breaking-respected-middle-east-news-outlets-reporting-isis-leader-baghdadi-killed-in-u-s-airstrike\/\">Obama got him first<\/a><\/span>, (<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/trump-obama-bin-laden\/\">the Seal team<\/a><\/span>! remember) and then the Russians. That cat may have a few more lives to go. But his \u2018death\u2019 will be rolled out with great fanfare at Trump\u2019s election rallies in the next months, along with the story that it was the US under Trump\u2019s watch who defeated Daesh. Tell that to the Syrians, Iranians, Hezbollah and the Russians, who actually <em>did<\/em> defeat Daesh. Oh, but Daesh isn\u2019t gone and we must be tough and vigilant, and keep the troops in Syria to be sure they don\u2019t come back! That will be the story line. And we can\u2019t let that oil get into the wrong hands, can we? \u2013 meaning the Syrians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump said watching the mission, as the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-situation-room-photo-baghdadi-analysis-obama-bin-laden-comparison-2019-10?IR=T\">posed picture<\/a><\/span> shows, was like watching a movie. Wouldn&#8217;t you know, <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/hasty-burial-sea-other-baghdadi-raid-details-which-parallel-bin-laden-death-mythology\">this story has parallels with the Bin Laden killing<\/a><\/span>, if that really happened as well, and that again raises many questions. Maybe Trump did see the whole thing. If so, it would have gone probably something like this, in true Hollywood style:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GoDVEYA7VXc\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ending on a serious note, though, hats off to the Special Forces. They did do a great job, if what we are told is true. The problem is not with them, but with the politicization of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Featured pic from <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsa.com\/according-to-congresss-own-statutes-it-was-not-necessary-to-notify-them-of-the-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-raid\/\">KTSA News<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ve killed Baghdadi \u2013 again. It has been reported all over the mainstream media. The story goes that on or about 11:30 pm Syria time, 26 Oct 2019, there was a raid by American special forces on a compound where one Ab\u016b Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding out with his wife, his supposed children and other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2019\/10\/30\/the-hollywood-death-of-baghdadi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hollywood death of Baghdadi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,250,251],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astrology","tag-baghdadi","tag-raid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}