The pre-dawn raid Thursday that led to the death of Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was meant to take ISIS leader alive, according to Pentagon press secretary John Kirby.
, said the U.S. operation in northern Syria against al-Qurayshi took two hours, more than twice the time U.S. forces needed to attack Osama bin Laden's compound. That's because, he said, there was an innocent family on the first floor of al-Qurayshi's building.Kirby said that the U.S."had hoped to be able to capture Abdullah alive and that we figured would require some doing, including the fact that he would resist or fight back.
He said U.S. officials have yet to determine whether to release any video evidence of the attack."We're working our way through that. And if we think that that's something that can be done and should be done, we'll certainly explore it," he said.Kirby also said U.S. intelligence believesin order to justify invading Ukraine. Intelligence officials, he said, believe Russia"would manufacture an atrocity, an event, a killing, perhaps a mass killing.
Kirby said the Russians would use actors as mourners and perhaps stage imagery of military equipment"that would make it look like it was actually Ukrainian instead of Russian."As for what proof the U.S. has that Russia would stage a false flag operation to justify moving into Ukraine, Kirby said,"If there was a way to do this and that wouldn't reveal how we know it, I think, you know, we'd be willing to look at that.
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