Cherry picked quotes from sites like True Pundit and Breitbart- sites that are hard right. Here's the full exchange from NPR's [url=https://www.npr.org/2019/10/27/773827531/special-coverage-trump-makes-announcement]transcript[/url] that OP failed to provide: [quote]GARCIA-NAVARRO: Greg, I'm going to turn to you again. There was a $25 million, I believe, bounty on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's head. I mean, he, you know, really was one of the most wanted terrorists for the United States in the world. So not only for the president, but this has got to be a significant military victory, too. MYRE: Oh, absolutely. He did something or led a movement that we had never seen before. ISIS had tens of thousands of members, fighters coming in from all over the world. They controlled massive amounts of territory in eastern Syria and western and northern Iraq, controlled several big cities - Raqqa in Syria, Mosul in Iraq - millions of people under their control. They administered cities. They collected taxes. They had this incredible online recruit presence in terms of spreading propaganda, recruiting followers. So this is a guy that sort of just emerged on the scene. I mean, he had a history but was not - you know, in 2014 is when he really sort of exploded on the scene and led this group that had done something we'd never seen before. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Daniel, this is to you. Do we know much about how Baghdadi was found? What are you hearing there? ESTRIN: Well, as I said, the Syrian Kurdish official we spoke with said that they had been monitoring his whereabouts for about five months. The question is, how did he get to where he was reportedly found in Idlib? He reportedly, about 48 hours ago, took up residence at a house next to a displaced persons camp, where a lot of Syrians who had been displaced from the war live. And he rented out or bought this house. His wives and children moved in. And then last night, the U.S.-led coalition helicopters pummeled that site. There's a video that search and rescue teams in Syria have distributed showing that area completely flattened. You see it's a remote rural area - trees, desert mountains around and just a crater and a lot of rubble. GARCIA-NAVARRO: This is going to be a question to both you, Daniel, and Greg. What does this mean for ISIS? I mean, this has obviously been a huge nemesis of the United States. As you mentioned, Greg, they had a caliphate at a certain point. They controlled vast amounts of territory. Is this the end of ISIS? I'm going to start with you, Greg, and then back to you, Daniel. MYRE: It's not the end of ISIS. But he was a real leader. It's not somebody they can just - appoint somebody else, take over and the movement continues. So his leadership was critical. It's not entirely clear. There was some talk in August that he had - he'd named a possible successor. But the group is now scattered. There are thought to be thousands of ISIS fighters scattered around eastern Syria, western Iraq. But they're not in a coherent sort of way where they can wage major ongoing fights as a group. They don't control territory. So it will be a huge question of how ISIS can rebuild or if they can. And again, we have these several crosscurrents here. We have the U.S. forces coming out of Syria. We have the Turks, the Syrians moving into these areas. So a lot of unanswered questions but definitely a major blow to the Islamic State. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Daniel. ESTRIN: Yeah. I would add, as Greg says, that this is a very symbolic victory. But the ISIS network actually has long moved on beyond Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It's functioned for a long time without him. And it largely lives on social media. Its recruiters are attracting new members. It really truly exists in many ways on social media today. And another interesting thing is that the - we've been speaking to sources inside Syria, people who've been speaking with residents in that area of Idlib. Apparently where Baghdadi was found in Idlib seems to be a place where ISIS has been comfortably regrouping. It's a place where, after the fall of the ISIS caliphate, a lot of ISIS fighters fled to that area, sought refuge and ganged up or joined up with jihadi groups in that area. And it's a place that we understand is where money is being sent out to ISIS widows and families possibly. An attack on U.S. military personnel in January was, according to the U.S.-led coalition, planned from there.[/quote]