The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, General Mazloum Abdi, gave NBCNews a detailed account of how he ran a spy inside ISIS for months, who followed al-Baghdadi as he moved from one safehouse to another.
Abdi declined to say when or how they first made contact with the ISIS informant, but he said in the last five months the relationship deepened and expanded dramatically. That coincided with Baghdadi's move from a hideout in eastern Syria to the Idlib province in western Syria, near the Turkish border.Idlib was an unlikely place for the ISIS leader to hide. The province is largely controlled by other Islamist groups, including one linked to al-Qaeda often called the Al-Nusra Front.
“When they approached the area, they would ask him to lower his seat so he can't look around,” Abdi said. “They asked him to lay down, to lower the seat in the taxi.” He started memorizing the internal spaces and distinguishing structural features that could be seen from above like a red water tank on a roof.
But before sending in the commandos, Abdi said, U.S. intelligence wanted concrete proof that the source had the access to Baghdadi that he claimed.So the spy stole a pair of the ISIS leader’s used underwear and later a blood sample to compare with known samples of Baghdadi's DNA. Baghdadi had been in U.S. custody in Iraq years before.
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