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The Hunt: Is ISIS leader dead or alive?

WASHINGTON — Is ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead or alive? A Syrian human rights organization said this week it has confirmation of his death, but no proof has been presented.

In this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green, Brett Velicovich, a U.S. Army veteran who hunted Baghdadi for years, says he has been very elusive from the day he was released from an Iraqi prison in 2009.

WTOP photo tour: Historic nuclear power plant at Fort Belvoir to be dismantled

The red button was always there — just in case. Most people never knew the United States' first nuclear power reactor to provide sustained electricity to a commercial power grid was — and is — on the grounds of Fort Belvoir, the U.S. Army installation in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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