now, this is just what they say that they captured some isis prisoners, including a currier for al baghdadi in september. and he gave them, or his wife gave them, the coordinates for where al baghdadi was. so it s possible this has nothing to do with the recent decisions to go into to let turkey go into syria. so we will see how trump tries to put it all together. it will take a couple days for richard engel and hans to piece out what happened. let me turn to you and get your reaction to how this raid was conducted. as i said, the defense department indicating jets and drones were used. richard engel saying there were forces on the ground as well. i think a lot of people will draw this parallel to the raid of osama bin laden? how good is that parallel as you see it? pretty good parallel. except when we went in to get osama bin laden, we landed
rebuild, so we must be mindful that yes, the iraqi security forces may have taken ramadi back but it s going to take a long time to rebuild it. now, more broadly, within the region, there are unconfirmed reports in haweja, a peshmerga and u.s. commander assault on an isis prison a couple of months ago, unconfirmed reports yesterday another assault by peshmerga and u.s. forces that have gone in here to retake that area. we ll keep you updated as we go along. as eamon referred to earlier on, there was an audio message put out by the islamic state s leader that s abu bakr al baghdadi. al baghdadi in september was targeted on the border between syria and iraq by an iraqi drone and there were unconfirmed reports that he had been killed but clearly this audio message yesterday tells us quite clearly that he is alive and well. moving up to raqqah, just above raqqah, the self-proclaimed capital of islamic state, there