Death find the end of a chapter. But no mistake, something does still continue. We dont know what it is but we know that isis was fractured as an ideology and franchise and unlikely that one mans death will end from a stretch from philippines through russia and to the streets of european capitals but an interesting set of questions that the commanderinchief will end up answering about how this raid came about. It was literally miles away from the southern turkish border, an area where many did not imagine abu bakr albaghdadi, the leader of isis, would look for shelter. This is where al qaeda have the biggest strong hold, a place where western intelligence chiefs are concerned about the next wave of jihad but who led them to that particular location. We understand from u. S. Officials turkey was told this operation was happening perhaps already underway and the question being what piece of
information brought them to that spot. The syrian kurds who have been the u. S. Main ally on the g
raid and human intelligence and spies and informants and they are both very important especially going into an area of syria where isis is not known to have a presence. completely. and this is an area that we don t normally operate so the intelligence had to be obtained at least on the ground through partners and folks that we work with on the ground. what was important about this osama bin laden raid, yes, it was signal intelligence but the analytical corp of the intelligence community were able to piece together small bits of information of how couriers got in and out of the osama bin laden compound which led to the discovery of that compound. so it wasn t just signals intelligence, it was critically important, it wasn t just human intelligence, they had bits and pieces of sighting or identifying, it was identifying the courier route to put small pieces together. i bet when they do the forensics