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been a very elaborate sting. authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. at least since january of 2011. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conversations with him earlier this year. so this was a fairly elaborate sting operation that lasted until today when they actually sold him what he...

what do we know about how it went down? it appears to have been a very elaborate string. authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conversations with him earlier this year. so this was a fairly elaborate sting operation that lasted until today when th...

>> they are incredibly encouraged by what theyre hearing. they are relieved. they now believe they have a degree of air cover that gadhafis forces wont be able to commit some sort of massacre or gas bomb. a lot of people in benghazi worry that there could be a chemical attack unless they had some sort of international safeguards. a no-fly zone, however, doesnt give them a lot of offensive capability. its protective by its nature. so they are still in benghazi. they are still hundreds of miles aw...

But we dont have a heck of a lot of leverage with the chinese. we should raise it. we should move it up on the agenda. right now high on the agenda is getting them to go along with sanctions against iran and the u.n. security council. we cant just assume were going to be able to negotiate the chinese out of this. we have to -- i think we have to start defending ourselves. >> pat, weve come a long way from where u.s. agents or british agents would infiltrate the soviet union, risk their life to g...

Dangerous not only because they inflict gruesome suffering but because even small amounts can unleash widespread devastation. the purpose of our actions tonight are to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread, and use of chemical weapons. establishing this deterrent is a vital national security interest of the united states. the combined american, british, and french response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our national power, military, economic, and dipl...