thank you so much, ben wedeman for us in beirut. let s go now to cnn s sam kyle eye. he is on the turkish-syrian border, near where this operation was carried out. and many questioning now how al baghdadi came to be hiding so close to the turkish border there in idlib province, sam. reporter: yeah, remarkable place to have found him, again, echoes of the bin laden raid, which was deep inside pakistan, next to their office s academy. in this case, the world s most wanted man who s reportedly been killed according to u.s. officials hiding deep in al qaeda territory or al qaeda-dominated area. now the islamic state were bitter rivals of al qaeda, which indeed isis and al baghdadi split away from what was the al qaeda franchise, the nusra