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5/16/2026, 11:15:02 PM
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For more on this, let's bring in Dan
Hoffman. He's former CIA station chief
in the Middle East and elsewhere, now a
Fox News contributor. Dan, um, this is a
name that doesn't exactly roll off the
tongue. I I wasn't aware of this guy as
the number two person in ISIS, but
getting him is a big deal.
It is. And I think the fact that we're
not tracking on him is in and of itself
recognition that uh the US government is
doing a good job of finding and fixing
and finishing our terrorist targets. We
all don't wake up in the morning
wondering whether we got uh um Abu Baku
al- Mininoi. Uh but it's a it's a really
critical uh intelligence success for us.
It's noteworthy because we partnered
with our Nigerian uh armed forces and
used them as a force multiplier uh the
intelligence we had uh to really to
enable us to to act as snipers to track
the movements of this highv value target
number two in ISIS reportedly for
months. Uh and lastly the impact on our
homeland because ISIS is not only
interested in conducting attacks in
Western Africa. They are focused on our
homeland and when we take out a leader
like this, we are potentially disrupting
plans that ISIS might have had to target
us here in the United States or
potentially uh overseas.
>> And the fact that the president says,
you know, the Nigerian government was
involved in the planning and execution
of this attack is good news. I mean, you
know, you you you have to be careful who
you share intelligence with because
things leak, but this one apparently was
a success.
Yeah, if if there's one thing I learned
at at CIA serving uh years overseas in
in war zones, it's that our local
partners can be extraordinarily helpful
with to us with their own intelligence
on the ground, their ability to
themselves infiltrate terrorist networks
because they have native language
ability. Uh and so it's important for us
to to uh enable our own mission by
partnering with others as we did here.
And the good news is that this is a
stepping stone potentially to future
collaboration against these sorts of
targets. H
>> how did we find him? How do we track
him? Do we know?
>> So that's sort of the mystery, John. And
when I served at CIA, we used to like to
say that the secret of our success is
the secret of our success. The sources,
the methods, those will remain secret to
us all. I could tell you that my guess
is that we had human sources inside ISIS
who were telling us where this uh high
value target might have been located. We
might have had selectors like telephones
and other things that he or his cutouts
were using. But at the end of the day,
this is an intelligence success and and
I expect the details to remain secret
from us, but not to Senate and House
oversight committees. I'm sure they'll
be briefed on this, I would expect, as
early as Monday morning.
>> Yeah. And I guess the good news there is
if there was an informant inside ISIS,
now they're all going to be pointing
fingers at each other and wondering, you
know, who who let the cat out of the
bag, which is good for us as well. Um, I
want to turn your attention to another
topic and Sentcom commander Admiral Brad
Cooper uh giving his assessment to
Congress of Iran's capabilities these
days. Listen,
>> their capability have been significantly
degraded. If I just use my own
professional experience, uh, and 100
transits through the straight of Hormuz,
you would typically see 20 to 40, uh,
fast boats and and lately we've seen two
or three. So, the degradation means uh,
it's been super it's been significant.
>> So, significant, but not complete
because the state of Hormuz is still a
bottleneck.
Yeah. And if that's true, and we have no
reason to doubt uh Admiral Cooper's
assessment there, then we should be on
the cusp of restoring escalation
dominance where we control the straight
of Hormuz and ensure that there is safe
uh and secure navigation through that um
key waterway and ensure that
international trade uh in oil and
fertilizer and other things is able to
proceed without any issues at all. I
think that's going to be a key uh issue
for the Trump administration this week
on which to focus um is ensuring that
the the straight of Hormuz is reopened
uh and then continuing to apply the
pressure to Iran economically with the
blockade potentially with additional
military strikes to ensure that Iran
comes back to the negotiating table
induce them to come back to the
negotiating table and do so in good
faith. Yeah, it seems like u reopening
the straight should have been the focus
maybe six weeks ago. It's it's really
caused a lot of economic hardship around
the world
>> and it gives Iran a bit of leverage.
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