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Probably doesnt but as phil said, this is not a quick fix kind of thing. remember how long it took to get bin laden. so many factors in this and it is a collage. putting all these different pieces together. the technical piece, the over the horizon piece. all of that makes a big difference. those are the kinds of things that need to come together in order to do this right and we have to do this right. >> phil, obviously the u.s. military presence will go to 0 basically in the next several days. ...

Some of this does point to the view they have that the iranians are planning for a possible, possible attack against u.s. forces. the pentagon is adamant they are not looking for war, but they are ready to defend themselves if it comes to that. >> youre also learning that theres concern about irans drone capability. what are you hearing? >> this is part of the overall picture of the growing iranian capability in this region and why the pentagon, why the military says there is increased evidence ...

I understand this to be a two-part test. a nasa remote fixed wing aircraft thats going to fly the supplies from the airport to lonesome pine airport. then doens will take packages to the wise county fair counteds. how does this affect what ultimately will be used here? >> well this particular area of drone capability is one a lot of people are interested in. this particular flight would be first within the united states. this is something that the united states military has been doing for a litt...

Operations. >> when the president is speaking of lessens to be learns do you think that equates to rethinking the drone program as it stands now? >> it is a bit of a myth that the united states intelligence community has a lot of information or perfect information when the they attack certain places in pakistan afghanistan, elsewhere. we are working with limited information. therefore we have this drone capability. people in the government have to make a choice whether to strike a place or not t...

Officials, or u.s. officials have told me that despite the fact they had hundreds of hours of surveillance on that particular site that these hostages are so high value that they would never have been brought out of the compound. they would have been hidden well thats why its possible to have all that surveillance and have no indication there were western hostages inside. in your experience when you were held did they keep you under wraps like that so you wouldnt be spotted from above? because t...

Special forces arent able to figure out who is doing it. could a significant attack be carried out like drones like this? >> good evening. yes, i believe it could. i could launch a drone near an airport and fly that right into a plane taking off and try to get it sucked into its engine. its definitely an athreat. >> they dont seem to be able to identify them or where they are coming from. you know isis is now using drones. how big of a concern are they to national security right now? >> theyre a...

Benghazi on december 11th, the hostage seizing in algeria as one off unrelated events and we need a broader strategy to deal with al-qaeda in various manifestation, in iraq and the arabian peninsula and i dont see any evidence that the administration is being serious about that or our european allies while were on the subject. but i say that weve turned the corner or that theres a new chapter in this because drones can be armed or unarmed and we have them now and at some point down the road, oth...

Benghazi on december 11th, the hostage seizing in algeria as one off unrelated events and we need a broader strategy to deal with al-qaeda in various manifestation, in iraq and the arabian peninsula and i dont see any evidence that the administration is being serious about that or our european allies while were on the subject. but i say that weve turned the corner or that theres a new chapter in this because drones can be armed or unarmed and we have them now and at some point down the road, oth...

For murdering his wife kathleen savio. they will argue his former lawyer did such a terrible job during his trial last year that it led to his conviction. that attorney might have to take the stand to prove that peterson had an adequate defense. if a new trial is denied sentencing will be next. peterson faces up to 60 years in jail. the drone race is on . united arab em brits is buying u.s. made drones as part of a deal. it would help them boost their surveillance capabilities and match claims t...

Stopping india, and pakistan and it appears, but we dont know at what level iran is. the u.s. military history is not great in terms of preventing these kinds of technologies from leaking through and seeping through. >> right. >> and so for all of the successes that the much vaunted united states foreign military policies can point to successes, there are a tremendous amount of failures in capability and we are seeing it play out in iraq. there is hype and misinformation, and to the core, we don...