headquarters might be directly involved in this. how is it possible that one of the main masterminds, if it is confirmed that he was present in this apartment, was able to operate, apparently, if not treely, in a maker western country, close to the area of the attack. at the soccer stadium. well, the way that isis works, is similar to the way in a al qaeda worked. it s an international note work, that local operators have massive leeway to manage their own operations, to have the recruits they want and the facility they want. the type of people they work with. that s to minimize the government s ability to monitor them and track them, or prevent such attacks. isis, since last year, especially after the u.s.-led
syria and wanted to help, but now he s realized that rather than helping, isis has only helped to enslave these populations and make their lives much worse. did he provide any information that could help defeat isis? i think what you ll see over the course of these four interviews or four parts in the interview is some really interesting information about how isis works and how it doesn t work, what its weaknesses and strengths are. whether or not that s used to defeat isis, that s not really our goal as journalists. i think it s a really amazing look. obviously pulling the veil or pulling the information out and bringing it out in the open, one would assume if he s disillusioned with isis, he s not trying to improve the organization. he seems to, if i m reading it correctly, certainly does not
who the u.s. targeted and now they have his widow in iraq who they are questioning interrogating. can you just tell me a little bit about what she may know about isis? well, interrogators are actually learning a lot from her about how isis works and the prominent role of women within the organization. she was not just the woman cooking in the kitchen and taking care of the family. she was entrusted with taking care of the women s slave network. she also was entrusted with running some of the other wives, coordinating how they took care of their commanders. so because of that and because probably she is trying to make sure that she has some future after this that is not spending the rest of her life in jail she s been cooperating, telling
knuckles amongst those soldiers and an extraordinary fight for this man sayyaf who they thought they could capture alone. so a complex task. certainly for u.s. commandos here and one that leaves them with, they say, substantial intelligence how isis works and this detainee umm sayyaf. 19 fighters killed in this and some said to be foreign and questions, of course, being asked as to why the u.s. is willing to endure this substantial risk and a difficult thing to explain to the public had it gone wrong the promises president obama said he wouldn t put soldiers in the middle east during his tenure. maybe seeing what the white house is to do. a spark intervention one here the white house said it was successful in killing a man they hoped to capture but so many questions as to what exactly was entirely in the u.s. cross-hairs
u.s. military officials telling nbc news that isis senior commander was the emire of oil and gass for isis but that does not mean that he was high up in the isis hierarchy. one analyst comparing him to al capone s accountant. but with his hands in so many of isis s major operations, he apparently was well connected within the organization, making him someone who could potentially explain how isis works. funding, military, top brass. this is why the plan was for u.s. forces to take him alive if at all possible. not because of who he is but because of what he might know.