He never left Syria. There is a good chance where the USA backed rebels were fighting was his hiding place. It was another bin Laden raid.
...A U.S. Army official (click here) briefed on the results of the operation told Newsweek that Baghdadi was killed in the raid, and the Defense Department told the White House they have "high confidence" that the high-value target killed was Baghdadi, but further verification is pending DNA and biometric testing. The senior Pentagon official said there was a brief firefight when U.S. forces entered the compound in Idlib's Barisha village and that Baghdadi then killed himself by detonating a suicide vest. Family members were present. According to Pentagon sources, no children were harmed in the raid but two Baghdadi wives were killed after detonating their own explosive vests....
They tried to kill anyone in the area, including the soldiers.
October 27, 2019
By James Doubek
Updated at 8:21 a.m. ET
A Syrian Kurdish general (click here) says ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was "eliminated" in a joint operation with the U.S.
Mazloum Abdi, the Kurdish commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces, tweeted the message Sunday amid reports that Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. attack in northwest Syria.
War monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says U.S. forces attacked ISIS targets overnight in northwest Syria, leaving at least nine people dead.
An Iraqi security official tells NPR that U.S. military commanders told him they believe ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead but are waiting for DNA tests for confirmation. The official asked to remain anonymous because he did not have authorization to speak publicly....
His entire career was extreme and aspired to be a despot. He made overtures about New York to US soldiers when he was released from prison. He was nothing but evil. He thought nothing but evil thoughts empowered by falsehoods about his personal power. He never cared about a society of benevolence so much as power. People, as a society, fail to thrive under power, but, succeed with benevolence. He was doomed from the beginning.
October 27, 2019
By Daniella Peled
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (click here) has only appeared in public once since he declared himself emir (leader) of the Islamic State in June 2014. But this reclusive figure has long been among the most feared terrorist leaders in the world.
Born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri al-Samarrai in 1971 in the Iraqi city of Samarra, he grew up in a devout, lower-middle-class family that claimed to be able to trace its lineage back to the Prophet Mohammed....
