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I think ill leave that there. appropriate deconfliction as happens in that part of syria was conducted in this case. lets see. helene cooper? >> hi, thanks, john. does this commando raid in syria send a message of any kind to vladimir putin? >> this raid was not meant to send a message to any other nation. it was meant to remove hajji abdullah from his leadership of isis. and to that degree it was successful. and we are immensely proud of the forces that conducted this, that planned it, resource...

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>> he lived on the third floor and relied on careers and lives on the second floor to operate his global terror network, he never left his home and only went to his rooftop occasionally to bathe. local syrian rescue workers said they removed 13 bodies from the compound, many of them women and children, president biden gave the final orders tuesday morning in the oval office opting for a commando raid using ground forces given the number of civilians nearby. a special operations black hawk helico...

Promote deconfliction as happens in that part of syria was conducted in this case. lets see. helene cooper? >> hi. thanks, john. does this commando raid in sere yo send a message of any kind to vladimir putin? >> this raid was not meant to send a message to any other nation. it was meant to remove haji abdullah from his leadership of isis, and to that degree, it was successful. and we are immensely proud of the forces that conducted this and planned it, resourced it, executed, rehearsed for it. ...

Second floor. never left his home, only went to his rooftop occasionally to bathe. they presented a tabletop model of the compound in the situation room in december with options for a targeted strike given the large number of children inside the house. president biden gave the final orders tuesday morning in the oval office opting for a commando raid, using ground forces given the number of civilians. the isis leader detonated his suicide vest early in the raid. >> with no regard to the family o...

A one-legged man bathing on a rooftop in Syria? Must be ISIS’ leader

0 the control of central command. tony. >> two quick questions. what happened to his body? was it carried away like with bin ladens body or too badly damaged? and two, administration officials told reporters today this had been planned for a long, long time, the president was presented in december with a tabletop model of the compound or the building. why was the raid now versus two or three weeks ago or a month ago? can you shed any light on that? >> yeah. his body was left at the site. as for ...

Is how they started off potentially as a calamity. we all harken back to jimmy carters hostage rescue in iran. we had a lead helicopter here fail. it wasnt looking promising. president obama went through with it. there was a lot of nervous moments there. >> a lot of people say it was the riskiest commando raid of this sort, special operations raid in the history of the country. one of the people against it, bob gates, he was an executive assistance to the cia director in 1980 on the jimmy carter...

Were talking a classic counterterrorism operation in this case now it could be a drone strike. it would be a commando raid. it could be any number of things. there are a lot of options the president has in these cases but all of this depends on intelligence and it has to be precise intelligence in order to get to that last mile of really what are we doing here and what -- is this leadership? is this another type of target? so it depends on the targets that they have and it depends also on how ea...

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