ISIS Keeps Getting Better at Dodging U.S. Spies

Run Silent

There’s a reason ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi has proven so hard to take out. He and his followers have become really good at keeping their communications covert.

Published Nov. 14 2014 6:00AM EST

articles/2014/11/13/isis-keeps-getting-better-at-dodging-u-s-spies/141113-shane-isis-tease_dtyjnp — The Daily Beast

On Thursday, around the same time ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi announced that he had survived a U.S. airstrike and promised in a recorded message to “erupt volcanos of jihad,” American officials were meeting to discuss just how hard it was to track the militant group.

Baghdadi and his followers...