The Abu Sayyaf raid [in Syria in May of 2015] was critical. We did a Special Forces operation to capture Abu Sayyaf, the No. 1 financier in ISIL, right outside Shaddadi. It ended up killing him and capturing his wife. We got more sensitive site exploitation—the S.S.E.—off of that raid than from any Special Forces raid in history. We learned an awful lot. We’ve already reduced their economic generation, oil and gas, by thirty per cent or so. This is not going to stop. We’re learning more and more every single day.
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