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Towards the cockpit. >> when all the passengers were trying to get out, as they were exiting the aircraft, a lot of them were actually being shot by the egyptian commando teams. it was such a chaotic situation. >> rezaq starts to run off into the darkness. he is shot through the chest by commandos. >> once this scene has been secured, the extent of the damage and death becomes apparent. >> at least eight passengers were killed by gunfire. the other 51 were killed by the fire and the smoke. >> th...

The egyptian commando teams. it was a chaotic situation. >> rezaq starts to runoff into the darkness. he is shot through the chest by commandos. >> once this scene has been secured, the extent of the damage and death becomes apparent. >> at least eight passengers were killed by gunfire. the other 51 were killed by the fire and the smoke. >> the families, the children who were killed, theyre egyptian. theyre palestinian. lebanese. it makes no sense. >> it was a catastrophe. plain and simple. thos...

As -- personally i think they should be treating it all of it as a law enforcement issue. furthermore, its nice to see the president come out and apologize, but as david mentioned, these drones are killing children and women all the time over there. and -- >> and you dont -- >> and we dont hear about it. >> and the issue is that we can do things now that we could not do before. we can send flying robots up to track, identify and kill specific individuals. its kind of war by assassination, essent...

A separate incident that theyre dealing with in pakistan, it is certainly when you take a step back and look at it parallel in many ways. over the weekend in islamabad the capital city of pakistan was shut down. we are told this was prompted by an intelligence intercept of communications, possibly between two taliban leaders, talking about a potential target attack in islamabad. maybe on a pakistani target though. not necessarily on american or international target. were told that could have bee...

In war than surprise. after bin laden was killed, it wasnt necessarily a kill mission, but it turned out that way. there were hours and days, maybe a week, in which that information gathered in that castle could have been used to find other high level al-qaeda. you could swoop in and surprise them. thats the kind of thing that the commando teams like the seals specialize in. with weather you go on world wide television and announce his death, everyone in al-qaeda scatters. >> brian: the navy sea...

West that said, wanted dead or alive. >> reporter: bin ladens base of operations is afghanistan. here, the fundamentalist taliban regime provides sanctuary. so, immediately after september 11th, small, u.s. commando teams began to work with local war lords who opposed the taliban to get bin laden. cia officer gary burnson is on the ground, helping to lead the mission. >> keep pushing people forward. keep taking ground and keep working with northern alliance or other tribal units to seizer to toi...

failure, high. >> would rather die than be captured. >> at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. >> reporter: friday, april 29th, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. >> the president, after a long nights sleep, he basically came in and immediately told his staff you have the green light. lets go. >> reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. militarys best-kept secret is underway. >> the troops were ready and in p...

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Role. now, as far as not the capability, this is nonsense, yes, we are bogged down in a worldless, hopeless campaign promise war in afghanistan. the air force and navy arent bogged down. they have got the planes. theyre the ones that need to do this. right now qaddafi is grabbing as much ground as he can. even when the no-fly zone goes fully into effect, he will stop his tanks. he will keep his aircraft on the ground and he will send in hit squads and commando teams that you cant do much about f...

Role. now, as far as not the capability, this is nonsense, yes, we are bogged down in a worldless, hopeless campaign promise war in afghanistan. the air force and navy arent bogged down. they have got the planes. theyre the ones that need to do this. right now qaddafi is grabbing as much ground as he can. even when the no-fly zone goes fully into effect, he will stop his tanks. he will keep his aircraft on the ground and he will send in hit squads and commando teams that you cant do much about f...