In other words, there was US Special Operations raid on Baghdadi's compound and a second follow-on raid by US forces that took out Baghdadi's number two, who is described as a spokesman but was really more than that, according to US official sources.
I am also told that the killing of the two top ISIS leaders in Syria is "significant" because beneath them are much weaker successors and the killing of these top two leaders will leave a "leadership vacuum" inside Syria.
All eyes now on Iraq and how ISIS tries to take advantage of the instability there to reconstitute. Daily violent protests against the central government have US officials very concerned.
Also, killing of Baghdadi vs Bin Laden considered very significant because for years before Bin Laden death, Bin Laden had ceded operational control of Al Qaeda, operations were dormant, but Baghdadi was still directing operations globally, according to US officials.
