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Laden being found a couple of kilometers from the academy. he was living in this peaceful compound for years. this man has been on the run for a long time. the circumstances are very different. it suggests that this recent movement by him kind of brought him out into the open and they were looking out for him. they were able to get him when he showed himself. >> bobby, why would he move? >> there are very few places for him within syria now. >> so much is happening on the ground as we've been talking and reporting. >> i'd like to find out why he felt he had to break cover, if indeed that's wha...

Military operation last night in northwestern syria. u.s. special ops forces there used helicopters, jets and drones to strike a suspected isis safe house. isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi is -- they're verifying his identity. erin mclaughlin joins me from turkey across the border from syria. erin, what more do we know about the operation and what will be next in identifying whether or not this is baghdadi? >> reporter: hey, richard. the details we are getting suggest a well-coordinated, carefully planned operation. we know that from our sources that special forces in the overnight hours first...

But instead, just before this raid over the last two weeks, we saw a change in that relationship, a dramatic one when president trump decided to first pull back american troops and then decide to change his mind and then, instead of pulling all the troops out of syria, he was sending them to another part of syria to protect oil fields leaving the kurds feeling very exposed as they are under attack by turkey. the kurds come out and are saying, this only happened today. this raid, this successful operation, which was an american operation, only happened because for the last five years they have ...

Ops, snatching someone and leaving. there was an intensive military operation, at least focused on one part of this border village leaving a compound, farm compound, farmhouse completely destroyed. >> richard now tell us about the lead-up and how this may have happened because, as you've been reporting and glad to have you there in northern syria, but we understand the dangers there. what was the lead-up to this? >> the lead-up to this, it was very simple. it has become very complicated. the reason it was very simple is that for the last five years, there has been an elite counter isis mission...

Yet at the same time, this success? >> reporter: so, i mean, the baghdadi, if in fact this is beau bakr al baghdadi who was killed in this raid, it's significant for isis, because he's a figurehead, right? there's not an immediate obvious successor at this point. there will be some time of turmoil. in an organization that's candidly in some turmoil. much of them have gone underground in this region. they're not organized into a caliphate. they're not holding land in a way they once were. there will be moments of turmoil. for the most part, someone pops back up afterwards and takes over and thi...