{"id":34739,"date":"2020-10-30T03:53:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T03:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/10\/30\/trump-meets-with-troops-from-al-baghdadi-raid-during-fort-bragg-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:34:40","slug":"trump-meets-with-troops-from-al-baghdadi-raid-during-fort-bragg-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/10\/30\/trump-meets-with-troops-from-al-baghdadi-raid-during-fort-bragg-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump meets with troops from al-Baghdadi raid during Fort Bragg visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump quietly met with U.S. Special Forces troops involved in last year\u2019s raid to kill Islamic State leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/10\/27\/isis-leader-al-baghdadi-believed-killed-in-us-commando-raid\/\" target=_blank>Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump flew into Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Thursday for what the White House described as \u201ctroop engagement.\u201d It was conducted outside the view of the press corps traveling with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters traveling with Trump on Air Force One after the visit that Trump presented the troops with a Presidential Unit Citation and visited a Special Forces memorial on the sprawling military base.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2019\/10\/30\/centcom-commander-releases-video-of-raid-on-baghdadi-compound-which-now-looks-like-a-parking-lot-with-large-potholes\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19303795379494.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">CENTCOM commander releases video of raid on Baghdadi compound, which now looks like a \u2018parking lot with large potholes&#8217;<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The compound \u2014 located about four miles from the Turkish border near Syria\u2019s Idlib province \u2014 now \u201clooks pretty much like a parking lot with large potholes.&quot;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The visit came a little more than a year after the U.S. launched the operation to kill al-Baghdadi as he hid out in northeast Syria. 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