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The question of clearly now the united states is taking this seriously. as it should. i mean, they shouldnt accept or tolerate this. but yet, by taking it seriously and not allowing it to affect anyone, if thats the path that the u.s. takes, are they legitimizing the north korean regime that they so crave? >> what happens now this is no longer a battle between sony and some hacker. this is a battle between the united states government and the north korean government because these actions, becaus...

Down. so a quote from the guardian, if the plane was shot done, it could have obama have been shot down by a state authority. the only country that is trying to prevent ukrainians from entering air space is russia. russia has forced ukraine to use troops. what do you think? >> i think he says it must have been a state actor involved. thats a clever way of putting sanctioned by a member of the gru, today, in fact, he put up on the russian version of facebook a press statement saying that we have ...

Actually, special forces, special operation forces for intelligence gathering and control the airspace from the ground and targeting but not conventional group conventional troops. >> iran putting their troops to support the iraqi government. who does the u.s. work with now? state actor, nonstate actor? who is the friend in the region? iran working with the iraqi government you, have to ask. >> you cant make it up. if you wrote a screenplay -- >> you could not, right. >> the united states ally i...

It blew up the business. they are funding terrorism on the continent of africa based on lessons learned from iraq and now we just added to that by making this public announcement that we do negotiate and that theres a price to be paid in exchange for an american citizen or american soldier. >> dan, do you see any difference between negotiating with clearly a terrorist group and a group like the taliban which, you know, an argument can be made they once ran afghanistan, they were quasi state acto...

French, italian or german passport. they are funding terrorism on the continent of africa based on lessons learned from iraq and now we just added to that by making this public announcement that we do negotiate and that theres a price to be paid in exchange for an american citizen or american soldier. >> dan, do you see any difference between negotiating with clearly a terrorist group and a group like the taliban which, you know, an argument can be made they once ran afghanistan, they were quasi...

I just offered it, as you said, an outlandish theory. >> it makes sense in the cold war era but who would want to do this and who would be capable of such a thing? it would have to be a state actor, correct? or are there terrorist groups sophisticated enough? >> i dont think they are. you would need the cooperation of a trained pilot who would have to know these routes, have to know about radar pings and the rest of it and then have a landing strip. you know, i just dont buy off of that. i cant ...

The best example of that i think is pan am 103 over lockerbie. in that case, those who perpetrated the crime were trying to hide their involvement. they never did take credit. so we do have instances of terrorist attacks where terrorists never actually admit they were involved. >> of course, that was a state actor. i should note this. the one detail that gets people is mr. ali who bought the flights, bought the tickets whos an iranian. we should note that this was from the reporting we know a fa...

Is a terrorist event. that being said, terrorist events and terrorists dont always take credit. the best example, pan am 103 over lockerbie. in that case, those who perpetrated the crime were trying to hide their involvement. they never did take credit. we do have instances of terrorist attacks where terrorists never admit they were involved. >> of course, that was a state actor. i should note this. the one detail that gets people is mr. ali who bought the flights, bought the tickets whos an ira...

>> my best guest submstimate wa was the assad government because the amount of sarin you need, the design of the ammunition, the cleverness with which it was put together sort of implies a state actor. >> reporter: the syrian government repeatedly denied launching the august 21st attack. now, russias proposal to put syrias alleged chemical weapons stockpile under international control is viewed with some skepticism. >> their hands with regard to serious chemical weapons capability may not be cle...

Seeing had this rocket motor attached to this, and then this front end, the central core extension bent up on the ground. and what people were not seeing was this larger canister that had broken into many pieces when the munition hit the ground. >> reporter: he says the rockets with the large payload chamber at the top looked something like this. cnn cannot verify the information. he says he cant rule out that the rockets could have come from the rebel side but -- >> my best guess though, was th...