{"id":11242,"date":"2019-10-26T23:34:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T03:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11242"},"modified":"2019-10-26T23:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T03:34:46","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11242","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Something very big has just happened!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1188264965930700801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>Newsweek<\/i> says the big news is that ISIS leader al-Baghdadi has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-approves-special-ops-raid-targeting-isis-leader-baghdadi-1467982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killed in a raid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek has learned. President Donald Trump approved the mission nearly a week before it took place.<\/p>\n<p>Amid reports Saturday of U.S. military helicopters over Syria&#8217;s northwestern Idlib province, a senior Pentagon official familiar with the operation and Army official briefed on the matter told Newsweek that Baghdadi was the target of the top-secret operation in the last bastion of the country&#8217;s Islamist-dominated opposition, a faction that has clashed with ISIS in recent years. A U.S. Army official briefed on the results of the operation told Newsweek that <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Baghdadi was killed in the raid<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With independent confirmation from the military, and the implausibility of (even) Donald Trump lying about a thing like this, I think we&#8217;re probably good to accept that al-Baghdadi has been put down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something very big has just happened! &mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019 Newsweek says the big news is that ISIS leader al-Baghdadi has been killed in a raid. The United States military has conducted a special operations raid &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11244,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions\/11244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}