The operation to kill the world’s most wanted terrorist, the Islamic State group’s Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was named after American aid worker and former ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller, who was killed in 2015.
And on finding out that the operation had been named for her daughter, Marsha Mueller started to cry.
“Gosh what a gift, for Kayla and for us,” she told NBC News. “It also lets us know that this administration did not forget about Kayla and was trying to help us find Kayla.
