The ISIS spy who betrayed Baghdadi was an insider motivated by revenge, commander of the Kurdish-led SDF tells NBCNews.
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 al-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.
“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.
“We learned that there was a tunnel in the house,” the general said. “We learned how many people in the house, how many guards were in the house. We learned the closest al-Nusra checkpoints near the house. We learned all the security details of the house.”
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