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The Killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

An Iraqi flag flies from the top of the heavily damaged Church of St. Ephraim, a Syriac Orthodox church, in Mosul, Iraq, in the months after this part of Mosul was taken from ISIS. The ISIS emblem was painted on the front of the building during the ISIS occupation of Mosul.
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Posted: October 28th, 2019

By The Cipher Brief

More details are emerging about  just how U.S. commandos located and cornered ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi over the weekend as well as questions about how much intelligence was gathered from Baghdadi’s compound.

Reuters reports that  Iraqi intelligence teams gathered details about Baghdadi’s movements from a former top aide in February 2018.  

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