MOSCOW – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was “the brainchild of the United States,”Russia’s foreign minister said.
Speaking to the Russia-24 news channel, Sergey Lavrov said they want moreinformation on the killing of the leader of the Daesh terror group.
“Everything was solemnly and triumphantly announced, but our military isstill studying additional facts, and they cannot confirm yet much of whatthe U.S. has said.”
Lavrov noted that Daesh emerged after the U.S. invasion of Iraq and therelease of extremists from prisons by Americans.
“Therefore, to a certain extent, the Americans eliminated the one they gavebirth to, if it actually happened.”
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Baghdadi led Daesh as it snapped up large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he had been killed in alate-night raid in northwestern Syria’s Idlib province.
In announcing Baghdadi’s death, Trump said the Daesh/ISIS leader attemptedto escape via a tunnel that ultimately was a dead end, taking three youngchildren with him “to certain death.”
