that he was able to use, because in the cover of darkness, u.s. special operations forces dropped out of helicopters and found him and chased him down into the tunnel according to the president and he killed himself, but he met his end. >> thank you, richard. and a couple of questions about the description of the tunnels under the safehouses, and is that the norm of the safehouses that you know about or have seen in the aftermath, and also the significance of this very tumultuous region of northern syria, and the fact that he had made his way there, what does that signify to you? >> so, we were told by a kurdish official that the majority if not all of the safehouses that abu bakr al baghdadi had been prepared for in case he needed to fall back to them did have tunnel complexes and some of the tunnels were like the one that president trump described a dead end tunnel and hiding space, and