[droithomme]

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/baghdadi-monday-d...

> The informant also obtained Baghdadi’s underwear and blood sample that was used for the DNA test to confirm his identity before the raid took place.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kurdish-source-provided-k...

> U.S. intelligence tested those samples and got positive DNA matches for al-Baghdadi, kicking the hunt into high gear. The informant stole the underwear about three months ago and the blood sample was taken roughly one month ago, a Kurdish official said.

Curiously the articles suggest they used the blood sample in advance of the raid to confirm it was al-Baghdadi, with no suggestion of what they were comparing it to.

[stef25]

Thanks for the correction. I believe the sample was compared to one they obtained when he was in custody in Camp Bucca.

[droithomme]

> when he was in custody in Camp Bucca

OK, thanks, I was unaware of that. You've changed my mind on the issue that we don't really know who the guy in the tunnel was. So we really did get him.

Captured Feb. 4, 2004 as a civilian and released that Dec. 8 as he was seen as no threat.

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jun/19...

https://www.businessinsider.com/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-declass...

> "Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Al Badry, also known as ‘Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’ was held as a ‘civilian internee’ by U.S. Forces-Iraq from early February 2004 until early December 2004, when he was released," the Pentagon said in a statement. "He was held at Camp Bucca. A Combined Review and Release Board recommended ‘unconditional release’ of this detainee and he was released from U.S. custody shortly thereafter. We have no record of him being held at any other time."

This is also interesting. He didn't start at Bucca:

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/25/u-s-military-now-says-is...

[freeflight]

> This is also interesting. He didn't start at Bucca:

That's also a way to not mention the fact that he also served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison around the same time the reports on the on-going torture there were finalized.

As such there's a very good chance he not only witnessed but also experienced that [0] kind of torture, just like neither Abu Ghraib, nor Bucca were exceptions during that time [1].

In that context, it wasn't just a random coincidence how ISIS paraded their prisoners around in "horrible orange suits", as Trump put it, completely missing the reference [2], like many US Americans.

[0] http://100photos.time.com/photos/sergeant-ivan-frederick-hoo... (NSFW)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_prison_abuse_scandals

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detainee_unifor...

[droithomme]

> That's also a way to not mention

I provided a link to an article documenting the evidence he was there and detailing that he was there when they were extensively brutally torturing the prisoners. Abu Ghraib is in the link title.