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Communications security meaning that they dont e-mail, they dont use cell phones, they are not on facebook and this distinguishes them from other militants and it makes it much harder for the united states and its allies to target them. but occasionally, people slip up. we dont know exactly how they got to emwazi but we do know that there was a car that was targeted in raqqa, syria, and that there were two people in the car, both of whom were believed to have been killed. now the pentagon is say...

Middle of heavily populated syria, before finally launching a hell fire missile off a drone to kill him as he stood in the street monday, cnn has learned. the mission to kill hussein, the most sensitive for the u.s. in months. several officials tells cnn. the u.s. had to be sure it was him, and to fire at him when civilians were not nearby. >> this is a huge gap for the united states, hussein was the most prolific english language prop gandist for isis. >> hes accused of being involved in the ha...

Khorasan was known to be dangerous. one of the reasons we went into syria in the first place and a message to every other terrorist group out. there well find you. well know where you are and youre at serious risk and youll learn what a hellfire missile is all about. >> thats the missile that killed this guy and presumably others who were with him. but khorasans main objective was this offshoot of al qaeda, to go after u.s. targets outside the region. presumably right here in the united states. ...

That means the u.s. had enough surveillance enough intelligence about what was happening in northern syria at that very moment to strike him. wolf? >> so it was a drone with a hellfire missile. not a f-16. >> we were told it was a drone. and it would be very typical. drones are typically used when they are chasing down moving convoys of vehicles or a single vehicle. they can stay up. they have a good deal of fidelity about whats happening on the ground. they can stay up for a period of time and ...

Filmed from the gun sight of a u.s. apache helicopter, the video first shows an attack on a group of men in baghdad. and then on a van trying to aid the wounded. the video continues with another engagement, about 20 minutes later. >> to me, the most shocking part of the video comes at the end. >> im going to come around, get some more distance. >> roger that. youre clear. >> theres some confusion, maybe some shots from nearby. all of a sudden, they zero in on a group of guys entering a building....

And really now instead of in addition to just delegitimizing him and parts of isis he really is now a liability to isis. because u.s. intelligence british intelligence are hunting him down right now to find him. and so really isis is going to want to get rid of him, and you know, we have the best intelligence in the world and its only a matter of time before hes found. we had run across iraq and seeyria and any other safe haven. its only a matter time before caught and hopefully on the receiving...

Torturing them. >> yeah. and understandably so. before we switch gears to oil prices, i know that vice news interviewed james mitchell, thats the cia contractor identified as the architect of the program. lets take a listen to this. >> to me it seems completely insensible that slapping ksm is bad, but sending a hellfire missile into a familys picnic and killing all the children and, you know, killing granny and killing everyone is okay for a lot of reasons. one of the reasons is, what about that...

Oversees this program, have problem with it? >> i believe that the cia is acting within the law and the intentions right now. thats as far as i want to go. youre trying to get me to say something -- >> i dont want you to violate sources or methods. >> im not ducking the question, im just trying to follow the rules. >> the critics of president obama say yeah, he didnt like the torture, he didnt like the excessive entire gags, but these people lived to talk about it, theyre still alive to this day...

We witnessed three rockets fired almost simultaneously, headed in the direction aviv. all those rockets were intercepted. and a short time earlier tonight, we saw israeli apache helicopter overhead, firing a hellfire missile. the missiles are designed to pierce heavily targeted fighting equipment. also, we should point out that today the israeli military put into place, harris, its eighth battery of iron dome system and they say its working to 90% effectiveness, but its not perfect. two israelis...

This organization quite a bit. >> there are saudis who are obviously always involved. they were clearly, though, when the u.s. sells in those drone, those hellfire missile, cooperating with the yemeni ground forces, if you will. when they go in there in an operation like this, its clearly designed to take youd wh call high-value targets. >> one the problems both the u.s. government and the yemeni government in their cooperation in anti-terror efforts have had is even when theyve gotten high-valu...