LEADER AL-MAWLA AN EX-INFORMANT, DOCUMENTS SHOW

ISIL leader Amir Muhammad Sa'id Abdal-rahman al-mawla is in fact a former informant used by the U.S. to gain intelligence on 88 jihadist fighters, new documents indicate.

Twelve years ago, before he had risen to the top of the terror group — he would eventually replace Abu-bakr al-baghdadi after the latter's death in 2019 — al-mawla is reported to have given up the names of his fellow extremists after being detained.

A new trove of previously classified documents, the

Daily Mail reports, have been released by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. military academy West Point. They come from interrogation reports at the time of al-mawla's capture in Mosul, Iraq, in January 2008.

The Daily Mail reports that those given up by the terror boss included militants focused on targeted killings and kidnappings.