this was successful is because of the filter and the intelligence and the resources in the region. obviously, we have seen even president trump credit the kurds with the intelligence to making this possible. so i think that, again, moving forward it is early times right now, and the question becomes as to whether we could have similarly successful missions in the future as we continue to pull out, and change the syrian policy moving forward. perspective-wise, charlie, how impactful is baghdadi s death, and there are success source and the president acknowledged this, but lindsey graham is calling this a game-changer in the war on terror and how do you see it? i think that the unfortunate truth of the lived experience in 9/11 is that when you kill one terrorist leader another one does take its place like a hydra, and notwithstanding that trump said that baghdadi was the
the account of the operation in broad terms does match the account that we are hearing from people who live in that town. but what we are still trying to figure out and everyone is trying to piece together is how did they find him? how did that elite unit of special operations forces aided by american intelligence and aided by lots of different people including the kurds here in northern syria and how did they track him down. and the kurd ish officials say they played a significant role and they have been tracking abu bakr al baghdadi in the same province for several months, and he had 50 different safehouse, and this is the first time that he had been at this particular safehouse, and the safehouses would be prepared in advance for him, and that he would move from one to the other to the other in the pocket of sea area which is right on the turkish border, and he went to this house however, and that is the last safehouse