Baghdadi retreated into the tunnel with two children, not three as Trump originally described on Sunday, according to McKenzie. “We originally thought there were three,” he said, but have revised the count to two based on the reports of the special operations troops.

The general said he could not confirm Trump’s description of Baghdadi “screaming, crying and whimpering” in the minutes before he detonated his vest. “He crawled into a hole with two small children and blew himself up,” McKenzie said when asked about Trump’s characterization. “I’m not able to confirm anything else about his last seconds. I’m just not able to confirm that one way or another.”

McKenzie also rejected reports that the mission had to be sped up because of Trump’s order to withdraw U.S. forces from northeastern Syria earlier this month. “Absolutely not. We chose the time based on a variety of factors — weather, certainty, lunar data, a variety of things like that,” McKenzie said, adding that the withdrawal order “was not a limiting factor.”

As they did with al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden following his death in a 2011 Navy SEAL raid, U.S. troops disposed of the ISIS leader’s remains at sea. “Following collection of samples for formal DNA analysis, Baghdadi’s remains were buried at sea,” McKenzie said, noting that this would prevent the site of his death from becoming a “shrine.”

The Defense Intelligence Agency confirmed Baghdadi’s identity by comparing the DNA to a sample collected when he was a prisoner of U.S. forces in Iraq in 2004, McKenzie explained, saying that results proved his death “beyond a shadow of a doubt.”