US President Donald Trump welcomed an unusual guest to the White House on Monday.
President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, an unidentified dog handler and first lady Melania Trump pose for photographs with Conan, the U.S. military K9 that assisted in the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, on the Rose Garden colonnade at the White House November 25, 2019 in Washington, DC.
"We're very honoured to have had Conan here and to have given Conan a certificate and an award that we're going to put up in the White House," Trump told reporters on the steps facing the White House garden.Baghdadi, an Iraqi who rose from obscurity to declare himself"caliph" of all Muslims as the leader of Islamic State, died last month by detonating a suicide vest after he fled into a dead-end tunnel as elite US special forces closed in.
Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of US Central Command which oversees American forces in the Middle East, said previously that Baghdadi brought two young children into the tunnel with him. Both children were believed to be under the age of 12 and both were killed, he said.
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