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Kurdish Informant Provided Key Intelligence for al-Baghdadi Raid
(NBC News) Richard Engel and Daniel Arkin - Gen. Mazloum Abdi, leader of the Kurdish forces in Syria, told NBC News in an interview Monday that his intelligence service had a source deep in al-Baghdadi's inner circle who described a room-by-room layout of the terror leader's compound, including the number of guards, floor plan and tunnels. Abdi said the source was on location during the raid and left with the attacking U.S. forces. The source, described as one of al-Baghdadi's security advisers, provided the ISIS leader's DNA to U.S. intelligence by stealing his used underwear and later providing a sample of his blood.