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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. >> roger that. 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 with a hellfire missile. theyre getting ready to fire

Of the video comes at the end. >> roger that. 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 with a hellfire missile. theyre getting ready to fire that missile, at the bottom left corner, you see a guy randomly walk into the scene. they dont say, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, dont fire. they shoo...

Filmed from the gun site 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. >> roger that. 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...

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. >> roger that. 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...

Citizen. ive never quite figured this part out. there are provisions for any u.s. citizen who takes up arms against the united states of america. you can pull their citizenship, you can remove that citizenship. now, theres no way to argue that he was taking up arms against america over the years, so im not quite sure why we didnt pull his citizenship and stop making a fuss about it, unless what we wanted to do, perhaps the thinking was to capture him and bring him back and try him in the u.s. ju...

New runways that have been built that the c.i.a. is using. it is likely that the c.i.a. was involved and that the joint special operations command, the same group that carried out the bin laden raid back on may 5th when anwar al-awlaki was nearly killed in a -- in a coordinated strike on his -- on his convoy on the road, there were herrier jets involved and there was a special operations helicopter as well as predator drones and new kind of hellfire missile so most likely if -- and at the time w...

Thats it, they would see that as a huge, huge blow on their sovereignty, which raises, at least in my mind, the thought if the u.s. had information where ayman al zawahiri, or these other guys are, theyd use a predator zone or hellfire missile or other bomb that wouldnt require the u.s. commandos to go in. give me your thought. >> we have no choice but to pursue these guys. one thing about pakistan i have numbers for you interesting. 6 out of every 10 pakistanis view the u.s. as an enemy. we are...

Finding bin laden there was 60% to 80%. i was told by a senior administration official there was no guarantee by any stretch, but still, the president, and i believe that the cia director leon panetta agreed that it would be best to go in with a helicopter rather than bomb the place because, of course, if you were going to get bin laden, you wanted a body. you wanted proof. you wanted to know that you had actually killed him. and thats why they decided to do it this way. >> if they sent a hellfi...

>> reporter: predator drones are used to give close air support and to try and eliminate small precise targets. in misrata, for example, there are snipers operating in buildings, there are vehicles that look just like civilian vehicles that are used by gadhafi forces. if youre flying at 20,000 feet, a nato jet certainly cant hit a sniper in a window and will have great difficulty identifying one toyota land cruiser from another. a predator can stay in the air a long time, it can watch the moveme...

The taliban has a presence, and indicative of, you know, the pakistani intelligence agency helping with the united states to arrest quite a number of people in the last ten days, kiran. >> you know, peter, its john here, the fact that they were arrested in karachi, theres been some high-profile arrests, what does it say to the idea to this wisdom that all the ope operatives have been living in the frontier regions on the border between pakistan and afghanistan? >> well john, as you know, since t...