is just how reliable these reports are about al baghdadi his death well miranda the news of baghdad he's killing should be tape handled with a bit of care really over the last few years there have been several claims that but he had been killed in 2017 for example russian forces said that he had likely been killed in a russian as strike in syria and as we just saw in that report he is very elusive i mean he's a fugitive he doesn't make many public appearances so over the last few years there's been a lot of uncertainty and speculation over whether he's actually still alive now there's obviously been no official confirmation from the white house as yet but high ranking pentagon sources talking to newsweek magazine and gave some details about the operation he said that after a short gun fire a gun exchange fire exchange in dieties compound in it live province and