Yes, it's meant to distract from all of Twitler's "woes", but the conspiracy stuff on this has to stop. It was a long planned operation that got moved up because of our troops being forced to abandon the Kurds. It was a Kurdish operative who knew where B-al-B was, and who was keeping tabs on him. The info had been given to the US forces, who then had to ask PUTIN for permission to act. Of course Putin agreed, but only as long as they got it done asap. The reason he agreed is that defeating ISIS while boosting Erdogan and Assad is in the Russian playbook - remove as many obstacles to total control as possible.
I feel that B-al-B suicided himself and his kids on purpose, because he viewed himself as a martyr for Allah, and wouldn't have wanted US authorities to get their bodies as proof of the deaths. I feel it was a last act of anarchy on his part because all these asshats know that Americans are too susceptible to conspiracy theories, and as I have posted elsewhere here, those conspiracies and the spreading of them is at the heart of the totalitarianism that is taking hold globally.