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Traffic accident with a hellfire missile fired by a predator drone and they were killed. so the assistance to yemen to the united states has been ongoing for a long time. then in the recent past, we have the underwear bomber on christmas day 2009. a year later in 2010 we had the attempt to mail printer cartridges with petn, a powerful explosive. and the same explosive that the underwear bomber had. and those were destined for the u.s., specifically a jewish community center in chicago. so this h...

From violent militants either inspired by or affiliated with al qaeda, a battle the u.s. may not be winning. >> i cant say that the -- you know, the threat is any less. i think our ability to discern it is much improved over what it was in the early part of the 2000 period. so i think that dispersion and decentralization actually creates a different threat and a harder one to watch and detect. >> reporter: in somalia, a u.s. drone fired a hellfire missile on sunday to try to kill ahmed gadani, t...

Where the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s attempted to capture a leader of al shabaab back in october but had to pull out before they apptuapp tu -- captured him. a u.s. drone fired the hellfire missile. they had help from u.s. and somali intelligence agencies. im told two people are thought to have been killed in the strike. u.s. officials are not confirming the identity of the target just yet. im told to expect more high-value target hits in that region in the near future, gretchen. >> so why is the unite...

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 shots from nearby. all of a sudden, they zero in on a group of guys entering a building. >> theres at least six individuals in that building with weapons. >> we can put a missile in it. >> they say, lets hit it...

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Drones and hellfire missile is less than 300 and there is a limited number of trained operators and communications hubs and secower channels and in iraq is no longer available for americans to launch these. it is not just drone strikes. we have cut back on counter terrorism operations. last year we were in somalia with kenyan and uganda units and drove al shabab out of moga dishu. >> special deployments are cut since last year. the number of u.s. vessels in the mediterranean and indian ocean and...

Of it. youre in. the question becomes, what happens if the russians decide they want to support syria more than they are today and iran does the same? and battle plan changes on the ground -- >> secretary -- >> does the united states have to do these things? all of that is involved in this kind of calculation. >> i want you to explain that. i think thats very important. if were talking about essentially punishment to enforce an international norm about the prohibition of chemical weapons which i...

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 shots from nearby. all of a sudden, they zero in on a group of guys entering a building. >> theres at least six individuals in that building with weapon...

Broken up. two other items in the past 12 hours. a drone strike overnight took out at least eight members of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. aqap. it operates out of yemen. formerly headed up by the american alaki, who was taken out on a hellfire missile of his own some months ago. in addition jennifer griffin reports from the pentagon last night that there are 1400 u.s. marines, parked offshore of yemen, a marine expeditionary unit that was there several weeks ago. theyre on standby. we have...

Filmed from the gun side 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 shots from nearby. all of a sudden, they zero in on a group of guys entering a building. >> th...