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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Eight-takeaways-from-the-Baghdadi-raid-606025
Iraqi Intelligence Penetrated Baghdadi's Family
(Jerusalem Post) Seth J. Frantzman - In mid-September a man appeared before Iraqi intelligence who had smuggled two of Baghdadi's wives through Turkey and two of his brothers. Iraqi intelligence penetrated Baghdadi's family and handed details to the CIA. For weeks Baghdadi was under surveillance. Three raids had to be cancelled. Finally at the end of October they had him, in a house next to the Turkish border, home to another extremist group called Hurras al-Din. The White House named the mission after Kayla Mueller, an American woman kidnapped by ISIS and held by Baghdadi until her death.