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In iraq. according to the national security council. and will likely be interrogated. but the question is how much intelligence does she have? now a senior administration official tells us that they are working to determine whether she had any information about hostages including american citizens held by isis. so the question is is that actionable intelligence that the u.s. can take? how big of a role did the wife have? and will they have any information that gleans new information as they take...

And more importantly, they have the intelligence thats associated with it. thats critical. you always fight for intelligence. its important to to kill the leaders, yes. but its also critical to fight for intelligence. so you can conduct more operations in the future. >> retired lieutenant-general mark hertling thank you so much. so lets learn now what the president is saying about last nights raid on isis. >> were headed live to the white house right after this. stay close. at red lobsters cre...

Black box sealed nature of isis leadership that this man had a substantial role in the eyes of u.s. intelligence that they were willing to put this amount of risk down to try to prevent. were hearing from one long-term observer of isis the real name of abu sayaff which means the father of sayyaf a title. his real name is abu zalik al jaburi. that may not be the case. not featured in the top four or five wanted individuals. perhaps according to experts weve spoken to in regular contact. isis spok...

This including sources in the iraqi government sources inside isis say this is not even an open secret any more theres consensus, he has a spinal cord injury the use of his left leg has been immobilized, thats not to say hes completely incapacitated and cant control the organization he can. in the wake of the injury that he sustained, he vowed total vengeance against the united states, they got him, now he wants to get us. theres another component to this why then would the pentagon or centcom w...

Breaking news of the morning. key isis figure abu sayaff was killed during a u.s. special forces raid in syria. now the operation took place at the presidents direction. and sayyafs wife was capture and is currently in u.s. detention in iraq. >> mike the weiss is the co-author of "isis: inside the army of terror." good to have you with us. wondering about abu sayaff whether thats his real name. do you know his real name? and secondly do you believe that he was indeed the target of this raid? >> ...

So glad to have you with us im christi paul. >> and im victor blackwell. we want to welcome our viewers in the u.s. and joining us from around the world. first up the breaking news u.s. special operations forces have killed a key isis figure in syria. cnn was the first to report that abu sayaff is dead. the plan was to capture him, but he fought back and in hand-to-hand combat and was killed in the raid thats what were learning from the defense department. >> his wife umm sayyaf was captured and...

Sayyaf. it means little else at this stage. it is important to notice how the one captured person they have from this,isemale. is now being interrogated. if i remember rightly, not a lot was gained at the interrogation of bin laden wives. it wasnt like he brought them into the family business to give the phrase so to speak. soy think yes a lot of scrutiny will be upon umm sayyaf at this stage. i think its also reasonably sensible to limit your expectations of what intelligence she may be able to...

Syrian kurdish opponents, who weve seen them fight against. so a lot of confusion about the white house story at this stage. from im soo what im seeing thon on this side of the atlantic. >> there could be this narrative thats built. we talk about al-baghdadi. who was enter a severe spinal cord injury or not. we did receive the audio message, theres the report from the iraqi military that al affri was killed and the pentagon says there was no confirmation of a high-value target and now this going...

Now in iraq being interrogated. weve talked a lot about the effort to recruit women into isis. but at that level, at the top, maybe middle management of the hierarchy, is it credible to believe that she has a lot of organizational knowledge about isis and would know all of the intricacies of that level? >> in the shortest answer is no really. we do know that isis notion of where womans place in society is not particularly 21st century. we know some women are attracted to that ideology. we know w...

And the capture of his wife are being trumpeted by the pentagon now, as a good reason they say in hindsight, that came out of it. bear in mind too, we have this one yazidi woman who is effectively a slave there, who seems, has been rescued. her life massively changed by being reunited with her family. were hearing from the national security council that umm sayyaf. the wife of abu sayaff these arent real names, theyre just nom de guerre father of sayyaf and mother of sayyaf. shes currently being...