because of the success of the operation, i mean, the intelligence was a mosaic that allowed us the level of awareness and fidelity of information to be able to conduct this in the way we did. >> was he responsible for the abbey gate bombing? >> i don't have anything to speak to that directly, however, he was the leader of isis and it was an isis-k attack. we do know he was hands-on kind of leader. we know that he certainly had knowledge of and was at least maintaining a level of situational awareness during the hasaqa prison break last week. he was directly involved in the massacre and the rape of innocent yazidis back in 2014.