Abbas al-Jubouri, commander of Iraq's Emergency Response Division, which worked with the SEALS, said the teenager was the only survivor of a group of 30 ISIS fighters who had run out of food and ammunition. "I asked him, 'What is the proof? Please bring me his phone, or ID or some clothing,' and he never came back."īut Khaled was actually captured in Mosul, according to an Iraqi commander interviewed by Navy investigators. "A friend of his came from Mosul to my door to tell me he was killed in an airstrike," Naser says when asked what he thought had happened to Khaled. They had been told by someone who knew Khaled that he had died while fighting but were never able to confirm it. He says the teen looks like his son, but he wants his wife to see it to make sure.
After the war in 2003, his salary and pension cut off, he sold cement.Īt the shop in Shoura where he now works, behind a counter piled with potato chip bags, Naser studies the video twice. Naser, Khaled's father, had been an Iraqi intelligence officer under Saddam - a career that included a posting at the Iraqi Embassy in Malaysia. Before the United States invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, the town was home to Iraqi army and police officers who were later dismissed from their jobs. Khaled Jamal Abdullah was from the Iraqi town of Shoura, about 30 miles south of Mosul. Until NPR reached his father last week, his family said they did not know what had happened to their son and had not spoken to a reporter. Khaled Jamal Abdullah after running away from home to pledge allegiance to ISIS and join the militant group as a fighter.
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