Operation Kayla Mueller

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US special forces (bottom right) advancing towards the target building of Operation Kayla Mueller
Donald Trump between Vice President Mike Pence (left) and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (right) in the White House Situation Room during the military operation
Video recording of the US armed forces, which shows how persons considered to be hostile try to approach the residential complex at the time of the deployment and are attacked from the air
Video recording of the destruction of the building after the operation
Televised address by President Trump

The operation Kayla Mueller was an American military deployment in the night of 26 to 27 October 2019 at Barischa in Syria and was directed against Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , leader of the jihadist terrorist organization Islamic State to (IS), the case Death came.

The coup was supported by the Special Forces Delta Force running and other forces and was after the aid worker Kayla Mueller named, had been mistreated in captivity IS-2015 and was killed.

According to the New York Times , al-Baghdadi's refuge was located after one of his wives, a wife of his courier and his nephew, who had previously been arrested in Syria, testified about the region where he was staying. With eight helicopters ( CH-47 Chinook , MH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache ) of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and supported by fighter jets and drones from a temporary US military base, the special unit reached its destination in about an hour's flight.

When al-Baghdadi, who was staying in the house of a confidante, did not surrender without a fight, according to President Donald Trump, the special forces were able to put him in an underground tunnel with no exit, where he, pursued by the army dog Conan , detonated his explosive vest and himself and killed two of his children whom he had taken there. The dog that pursued al-Baghdadi was slightly injured. Five ISIS members (four women and the house owner) and around 10 to 15 militia fighters who approached the US soldiers from outside were also killed in the operation . At the same time, two IS fighters and children were captured. After the American special forces left the place with prisoners and booty material after about two hours, the property was completely destroyed by an air raid.

A DNA analysis confirmed hours later, al-Baghdadis identity. According to their own statements, the US military buried al-Baghdadi's mutilated corpse at an undisclosed location in the sea.

The action was announced the following Sunday morning US local time by President Trump in a televised address from the "Diplomatic Reception Room" of the White House . Trump thanked the US units, in which no one was seriously injured, the intelligence services of the Syrian-Kurdish associations and Iraq as well as Russia, Syria and Turkey, which dominated the airspace in the overflight areas and in the target.

After the operation, Donald Trump posted a first photo of the army dog Conan on Twitter ; a little later he was presented to the press in the White House .

On October 31, ISIS confirmed al-Baghdadi's death and named Abi Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Kurashi as his successor.

See also

Web links

Commons : Operation Kayla Mueller  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper: CIA Got Tip on al-Baghdadi's Location From Arrest of a Wife and a Courier . In: The New York Times . October 27, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 27, 2019]).
  3. ^ Howard Altman: Trump: ISIS leader al-Baghdadi killed in US commando raid. October 27, 2019. Retrieved October 27, 2019 (American English).
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  5. ↑ a b Kyle Mizokami: The Helicopters That Made the US Army's ISIS Raid Possible. October 28, 2019, Retrieved November 2, 2019 (American English).
  6. ↑ Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper: CIA Got Tip on al-Baghdadi's Location From Arrest of a Wife and a Courier . In: The New York Times . October 27, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 27, 2019]).
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  9. ↑ a b Christoph Reuter: Death of IS leader Baghdadi: End of a terror king without a country . In: Spiegel Online . October 27, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 27, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Injured military dog who chased down al-Baghdadi returned to full duty . In: Military Times . October 28, 2019 ( militarytimes.com [accessed October 28, 2019]).
  11. ↑ a b Head Of US Central Command Says ISIS Leader Baghdadi Buried At Sea. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Martin Chulov: Nowhere left to run: how the US finally caught up with Isis leader Baghdadi . In: The Guardian . October 27, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed November 2, 2019]).
  13. ↑ a b US command in Syria: Donald Trump confirms the death of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi . In: Spiegel Online . October 27, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 27, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Baghdadi given burial at sea, afforded religious rites: US officials . In: Reuters . October 28, 2019 ( reuters.com [accessed October 29, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: IS leader 'killed in US operation' in Syria. BBC News, October 27, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Michael Safi, Martin Chulov: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed in US raid, Trump confirms. The Guardian, October 27, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  17. ↑ US military operation: Terrorist militia "Islamic State" confirms the death of Baghdadi and appoints successors . In: Spiegel Online . October 31, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 31, 2019]).

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