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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | December 20th, 2024: US Eliminates ISIS Leader & Putin Taunts West With Proposed 'Missile Duel'
Fri, 20 Dec 2024
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, an update from Syria, where the U.S. has managed to take out the top leader of ISIS in a precision strike, as U.S. diplomats travel to Damascus for their first in-person meeting with Syria’s rebel leaders. Then, Vladimir Putin has floated an insane plan to have an experimental "missile duel" with the west in Ukraine, prompting Volodymyr Zelensky to call the Russian leader a "dumbass." To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Patriot Gold: Call 1-888-870-5457 for a free investor guide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. Okay, it's a little bit of a late afternoon bulletin. It's the travel schedule. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. Let's get briefed. Just some breaking news. A sad story out of Germany where a vehicle drove into a crowd at a Christmas market located approximately two hours west of Berlin.
Details are few at this stage, although there's at least one fatality and upwards of a reported 60 to 80 injuries. According to German authorities, The driver of the vehicle is in custody, and some reports indicate that there were explosives in the vehicle.
The German authorities have now described it as a terrorist attack, and this, unfortunately, is reminiscent of a similar terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market back in December of 2016 that killed 12. We'll keep an eye on the investigation and report further as details emerge. First, though, coming up in today's afternoon bulletin, an update from Syria, where the U.S.
has managed to take out the top leader of ISIS in a precision strike as U.S. diplomats traveled to Damascus for their first in-person meeting with Syria's rebel leaders. Then, Vladimir Putin apparently has a senior moment, or perhaps he's just simply off his meds. as he suggests that Russia and the West engage in an experimental missile duel over Ukraine. But first, our afternoon spotlight.
I want to begin with an update on US activity inside Syria following the collapse of the Assad regime, as the American military steps up assaults on ISIS strongholds, while top US diplomats meet in person with Syria's new leaders for the first time. U.S.
Central Command, or CENTCOM, announced Friday that their forces had carried out an airstrike in eastern Syria that has killed ISIS leader Abu Yusuf. Officials added that another unnamed ISIS operative was also taken out in the precision strike. That's according to a report from the Jerusalem Post.
CENTCOM said the strike was carried out in an area formerly controlled by the Assad regime and the Russians, where ISIS fighters are now working to reconstitute their battered terror army, ambitions, of course, that the U.S. is intent on thwarting. Since Assad's ousting on December 8th, the U.S.
has unleashed a number of strikes across Syria targeting known ISIS camps and operatives in an effort to disrupt and degrade the terror group. In a statement on Friday, CENTCOM said, "...the United States, working with allies and partners in the region, will not allow ISIS to take advantage of the current situation in Syria and reconstitute.
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