ruhle. we are learning more today of the intelligence work that led up to the raid against isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi, northern syria compound. u.s. middle east based officials knowledgeable of the operation told the washington post that the informant cultivated ahead of the raid was a person facilitated baghdadi s movement in syria and helped oversees construction work on his syrian safe house. the mold details knowledge of baghda baghdadi s whereabouts proved to be critical in the raid. joining me now, he spent more than two decades covering international affairs. bob bobby, thank you for being here. let s talk about what it means for isis. how big a deal is this? the context in which i asked you about this is when osama bin laden was killed, everybody in the world knew osama bin laden s
fact, killed by u.s. air strike. they seem to be working fast on the intelligence they ve got. and the isis leadership, shattered by the loss of its key figure. nick paton walsh, live for us in irbil, iraq. thank you, nick. the parents of slain kayla mueller is speaking out about ail baghdal baghda baghdadi s death. th this has been going on for so long, i m not sure about the last 48 hours for me. i m just searching for kayla. she was killed in 2015. here s what the muellers told fox news. this has been going on for so long, i m not sure about the last 48 hours for me. i m just searching for kayla. i was glad that he blew himself up, that no one killed him from our side. they hope the mission can shed some light on their unanswered questions. our hope is to seize this moment. and this moment is the fact that al baghdadi has been killed.
be controlled by the russians. turkey is predominantly getting what it wants in that area. that will raise questions. and there s one outstanding question, too. given the control of idlib where he was hiding, a matter of miles you can count on one hand. there will be after about what turkey knew and what it could have known better to get baghdad baghda baghdadi earlier. we re starting to hear from american families that were murdered by this regime, this isis regime. it s just so sad and terrifying for them now. they re waking up and learning about this. coming up, microsoft beats out amazon for a major defense contract. was the president s disdain for jeff bezos behind the move? i need a ride.
yesterday, trump recounted the baghd baghda baghdadi s death in shall we say colorful language, died like a dog. in contrast president obama took pains to emphasize that he believed the war on terror was not a war against islam. later, obama called former presidents bush and clinton before the announcement. trump notably did not do that. he apparently call obama or congressional democrats who would give a heads-up but gave kremlin a headsup. we know that size matters a lot to this president. this is the biggest this is the worst ever. osama bin laden was very big. but osama bin laden became big with the world trade center.
50 days, you watched the last days days, hours of isis, as they tried to hang on. what are you thinking, now, as we seem to have two u.s. officials confirming to cnn, that they believe that al baghdadi is dead. it s significant. i was thinking about, what does all this mean? when we were interviewing, we interviewed dozens of isis wives and children. for few of them spoke about baghda baghdadi. their loyalty was to the islamic state. unlike, for instance, bin laden, who was a cult figure in al qaeda, al baghdadi wasn t seen as the embodiment of the