killed and did that eliminate alqaida in iraq? no it didn t. it transformed alqaida in iraq to an islamic state and it became more powerful than ever and i m quite worried that the details in syria right now isis still has something like 18,000 fighters between iraq and syria and they re ramping up operations after they re losing their cal fate. now i m worried about what is going to fight isis now that president trump has decided to pull out most of our forces out of syria. the president made a comparison with the killing of bin laden. he became big with the world trade center. this is a man who built as he would like to call it, a country
years ago. it squeezed into a tiny enclave bracing itself for righting russian and syrian forces and many different fighters. the real question is, what is isis intent today for attacks outside of that area, outside of the country. timing and location is interesting. what does it say that baghdadi was holed up so close to the kurdish fighters who wanted him dead? why there? was he just hiding in plain sight? this is what bin laden did. for years he hid in the house in the same town as a large pakistani military training camp. a huge army headquarters less than a mile from his house. baghdadi had gone to an area where not so much hiding in plain sight but harder for the united states to get him. it s closer to those turkish troops on the ground.
trump does not have a plan going forward for eastern syria. our withdrawal is destabling it and creating greater opportunities for an isis resurgence. thank you both very much. our breaking news continues on the raid that killed isis leader al-baghdadi. president trump says this is bigger than the death of bin laden. you re live in the cnn newsroom. take in fragrance inspired by nature. .with air wick essential mist. with kits starting at just ten dollars you can transform natural essential oils into mist at a price that is just right. it s not acceptabled or nothing. and it s definitely not close enough or nothing.
that doesn t make any sense. exon mobile is not going to want to take gas from the syrian governor. what s the point of abandoning our you mentioned that several times. sni we re not going to steal syrian oil and ship it over here. we don t need it. it s probably illegal under national law. the policy doesn t make a lot of sense and the larger issue i have as i suggested earlier is s how are we going to keep isis at a resurgence and we ve ended our successful partnership with the kurds and now you see the minority expanding its reach across and those are precisely the conditions that gave ride to the rise in the first place so i am concerned that president