repaired. this is the tribal arab region, the sunni conservative heartland of the middle east where isis tends to thrive. so for me what's extraordinary about this allegation or this news reporting is that baghdadi has gone to a place that frankly he's not all that welcome in. the place that the u.s. has announced it was going to withdraw from until donald trump rather precipitously said, no, we're doing an about face, we're actually going to come back into syria to guard the oil wells, this is the place i would expect to find baghdadi. so, the questions in my mind are when did he repair to idlib? under what circumstances? was this precipitated by the fact the u.s. announced its military withdrawal from eastern syria in conjunction with the turkish invasion of northeast syria? also, where did the intelligence come from? there are all kinds of deals