WASHINGTON
The U.S. has an “eye on” deceased Daesh/ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s third-in-command, President Donald Trump said Tuesday.
“His third has got a lot of problems because we know where he is, too,” Trump said during remarks at the Economic Club of New York. “We have to keep it that way otherwise we’re going to continue to have problems.”
The president did not explicitly state whom he was referring to during the public remarks, and Daesh/ISIS’s organizational structure is shrouded in mystery.
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