* Neighbors were woken by helicopters swooping out of the dark sky at just after one o'clock in the morning
* 24 US commandos quickly surrounded a three-story home in Atmeh, Syria, not far from the Turkish border
* The top floor was home and headquarters to ISIS chief Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi and his family
* An Arabic voice could be heard through a bullhorn telling the residents to give themselves up
* Only 45 minutes after the raid began, an explosion destroyed much of the top floor, killing al-Qurayshi
* American officials said it was a suicide blast and witness said bodies were flung clear of the rubble
* An ISIS lieutenant and his wife opened fire from the second floor as the commandoes moved in
* From start to finish the whole operation took two hours. First responders said that 13 people died in all
The helicopters arrived low and fast out of the sky about an hour after midnight.
American intelligence officers had pinpointed the leader of ISIS to the top of a three-story house among the olive groves just outside Atmeh, a Syrian town near the border with Turkey.
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was a stickler for security. He never left the building, running his terrorist group with messages sent through a lieutenant who lived on the floor below.
Two hours later al-Qurayshi - also known as Hajji Abdullah - was dead and 24 elite U.S. commandos were on their way home.
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WNU Editor: There must be more to this story than what they are telling us .... Black Hawk down and out: US commandos were forced to BLOW UP MH-60 chopper during ISIS Syria raid because of mechanical issues - decade after losing another helicopter during Bin Laden assault (Daily Mail).
Update: The Pentagon are saying they will review the Syrian raid .... Pentagon willing to review Syrian raid after reports of civilian deaths; Biden says IS leader blew himself up – as it happened (The Guardian).
More Details Emerge On The U.S. Raid That Killed ISIS Leader al-Qurayshi
Raid Targeting ISIS Leader Came After Months of Planning -- New York Times
Inside US raid that killed ISIS leader: 'Incredibly complex,' on same scale as bin Laden operation -- FOX News
Tense moments in Situation Room as Biden oversaw raid on ISIS leader that was months in the making -- CNN
In Pictures: US forces launch deadly raid in Syria’s Idlib -- Al Jazeera
US routinely violating Syrian sovereignty, this time to supposedly assassinate the latest "ISIS leader" and a few civilians on the side. Followed by the usual pathetic political circus about the world being safer because the bad guys who "hate our freedoms" have been dealt with. No doubt there's a whole ecosystem (due for the most part to US destabilising the region and actually supporting jihad groups through not quite covert CIA programs) of these jihadist terrorists in the area all lined up for future commando raids whenever a US POTUS ratings go under 30.
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