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Pete: looking at it right now. >> most likely direct attack mooammunition delivered from a variety of aircraft. it looks like it did a very effective job of destroying that facility and everything in it. and which will make it very hard syria to rebuild its in that location. did we get all the locations up in homs and damascus, it looks like we were pretty effective. what we are doing today is battle damage assessment of our attack. we came, in we attacked and neutralized their air defense. then...

Northbouinbound was hit. >> youre absolutely right. i was watching footage coming from damascus, its unconfirmed footage but it appears relatively real time. you can see some of the air defense systems boosting up into the air, some sa-2 an old missile from the 1960s and a lot of anti-aircraft artillery guns. you can see where were striking down to the southeast, a helicopter, air defense, and command and control center. and out to the north and west. and most likely the scientific research faci...

Handprints. rugs blood all over it. >> that missile that was fired, whether it was one or two from that transporter erector launcher, that device requires years of training. very likely that russians were actually involved in the launch of that missile that brought down that measurable airliner. the training manual that russians have for proficiency, two years of training to become a a noncommissioned officer to operate that system on the buk system with sa-11, sa-2 omore training. years, not we...

Certainly have. i want to bring in our military analyst, lieutenant colonel rick francona, who is here with us and of course our own richard quest. lieutenant francona, in terms of what sort of weaponry could actually bring down an airliner traveling at ten kilometers at 30,000 or so feet, what kind of advanced weapon are you talking about? >> your basic air defense missile will do this. the russians have had this capability for decades. >> a shoulder mount? >> no, no, no. this would have to be ...

Fighting late monday. police used what appeared to be tear gas on the crowd. and the muslim brotherhood says they fired live ammo at the protesters. were finding out more this morning about the violent seizure of a north korean ship in panama and what was on boards that ship may have international implications our barbara starr has the latest. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence had been tracking the ship for days and knew that the panamanians would stop it a senior u.s. official tells cnn. officia...

As it exists today, extending further south. one of the air strikes took out some sa-2 and sa-3 surface to air missiles sites down in sabah. you can get a sense of the international contribution. more than 350 aircraft are involved in some capacity. only slightly more than half belong to the united states. its fair to say the coalition is growing in both size and capability every day. today there are nine other contributing nations to include qatar, and thousands of coalition military personnel ...