The United States has “tons” of intelligence on ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but so far, it’s “nothing credible,” a counterterrorism official told ABC News in a report published on Monday.
Believing that they were once close to tracking down the elusive leader, that feeling has now faded with the belief that the world’s most wanted terrorist is on the move from Mosul – Iraq’s second-largest city that Iraqi forces are currently fighting to liberate from ISIS.
“There was a sort of ‘spidey sense’ at that time [the week Donald Trump was sworn in as president last January] that they were close, but that has gone away,” a senior counterterrorism official briefed on the hunt to find Baghdadi told ABC News.
“We don’t think he’s in Mosul anymore,” another counterterrorism official involved in the campaign to fight ISIS told the news network. “He’s on the move.”