[4] Al-Sudani grew up in Ramadi then Baghdad, within a strict disciplinarian family, working after school in his father's small print shop.

Under pressure from family, he settled into an arranged marriage, returned to school to learn English and Russian, but eventually took a surveillance job for Iraq's oil infrastructures.

Harith was hired in 2013, leveraging his computer and languages skills and assigned to monitor web traffic and telephone calls of terrorist suspects.

[2] ISIS leadership quickly valued his perceived quality of being native from Baghdad, which would increase chances to pass through omniscient check points.

[2] First trained on explosives and religions, "Abu Suhaib" was put in charge of practical bombing operations, receiving Mosul's orders, selected suicide bombers sent from there, and picking up the explosive-loaded vehicles in preparation of ISIS attacks.

[2] At a check-point or agreed stop, he would let the Falcons demining team dismantle the bomb and replace it with relevant pyrotechnic devices, or lure and neutralize the suicide bomber he was transporting.

He used his longer presence in Baghdad to pay a visit to his family, receiving a worrying phonecall from ISIS operatives pointing out his GPS position was not as he claimed.

[2] At a closer point, eight agents swiftly dismantled the vehicle's bomb made of a detonator, 26 bags of C4 explosive, ammonium nitrate, and ball bearings.

[2] A rescue operation was mounted in 3 days, the time needed to plan an action into ISIS stronghold, but failed to find Captain al-Sudani while one special forces soldier was killed.

[2][4] Based on the ISIS execution video, both his Falcons Intelligence Cell and Iraqi's Joint Military Command announced his death in a counter-terrorism operation.