spokesman and potential successor. for more on this incredible successful operations, our own catherine herridge in washington tonight periods. tonight is coming to record sees during the raid what are called document exploitation. soldiers took two islamic state fighters prisoner and reportedly under interrogation in iraq. we are learning new details about baghdadi s final minutes how he fled with three of his children s as delta force operators closed income accorded in a dead end tunnel, baghdadi detonated a suicide vest. president trump said one of the most wanted terrorist leaders died like a dog and died like a coward with multiple streams of intelligence used to execute the operation, one of the informants were inside the compound, providing key information about the tunnels. and that baghdadi was on the move, apparently after months in the same location which is not
the demonstration. the essence of all of this is intel and its capability. so let s goat there next. what are you most worried about in terms of our approach? the thing i m most worried about, we need to be aggressive. this example of capturing or killing abu sayyaf is a good example, but fwheedneed to do more. there are hundreds doing document exploitation on whether computers that were gained, papers that were there. be abu sayyaf was kind of the cfo of isis. so we have to learn a lot about the operations of the organization, how they re raising money, how they re getting money. and will could lead to additional so it could be a big get.
ground in syria. raids like this that gather that type of inform it and leverage it and we need to be doing more. we need to have better insight into what this threat is doing in their backyard. as long as we continue to allow them to have a safe haven to operate, they are going to continually be a threat. i want to talk to you about the intelligence that would be gathered. you have been involved in these kind of special operations in the clandestine service. we know the guy they were trying to get is dead. at least we think that s who they were trying to get. maybe there s a bigger fish they missed. we know they have his wife. women aren t really worth that much in terms of intelligence value because most of the time in the middle east they re not really part of the network. women don t often wear the pants in terrorist families. third thing though is all the electronic intelligence you could have gathered. what s happening right now with the delta force s safe house? they are bring
the most bake things you do is conduct document exploitation. why is it that the seal team would fought conduct basic document exploitation and throw a few books in a garbage bag, which is why hirsch claims if so why are there 1 million documents recovered in the course of this raid? why do they exist? he claims no documentation occurred. he claims they got these documents from the pakistanis. again, that doesn t hold up. if you talk to people who are familiar with the documents, a lot say the pakistanis do not come off particularly well including in the most recent round of releases that occurred during a criminal trial. bin ladin was reaching out to the pakistanis. there is a lot that doesn t hold up in hirsch s story. we whether hear more from peter bergen why he went to the compound and we will delay his reporting of what he saw there. let s get to this other headline real quick, to have jay johnson,
i will read from the wall street journal about this. the description of koran. these books, according to some u.s. officials contained extremist literature and clandestine communications between prisoners. they were using them to community between each other inside the prison. absolutely. jenna: if that is the case, this isn t a holy book, isn t it? is it enemy propaganda? what are you supposed to do with it? what do you think?. it is intelligence information. catherine herridge and i were speaking same thing. this goes on in guantanamo. this was mistake by a very tired army. these koran were of intelligence value. let set aside religious value caused by destruction. we have document exploitation these things should have been into the larger picture and looked at. the idea someone said get rid of these things because they re trash is insane from two levels. first the intelligence value and secondly, anyone knows in arab country where you have this level of interest