When US President Donald Trump announced the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi following a raid in north-western Syria, he made sure to take the opportunity to one-up his predecessor: Baghdadi's death, he said, was bigger than Osama bin Laden's.
Baghdadi was "the biggest there is", he said, "the worst ever".
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