Exclusive: Parents of ISIS victim Kayla Mueller on al-Baghdadi tell TODAYShow they're glad that 'evil person is gone'
Mueller’s family learned their daughter was killed in February 2015, but the circumstances surrounding her death have remained unclear.
National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien told"Meet the Press" on Sunday that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff named the operation that took down al-Baghdadi after Mueller,"after what she had suffered." The Muellers expressed deep gratitude for the raid."I’d like to thank those brave soldiers and everyone involved in that raid, and compliment the president on that successful mission," the father said.
"I want people to see the light in Kayla. In such utter darkness, there was light," the mother said of her daughter's time in captivity.
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