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Seated in the situation room monitoring the raid with new york times imagery and after the white house team was in place a group of ch 48 helicopters took off from western iraq. >> us forces were infiltrated by helicopter and the objective, secure the target compound. >> a local butcher told the associated press this i helicopters will blow on the horizon saying we went out on the balcony to see and they started shooting with automatic rifles so we went inside and hid. next the villagers heard a...

United states special operations forces under the command and control of the united states central command, general frank mckenzie, conducted a counterterrorism operation which resulted in the death of the founder and leader of isis, abu bakr al-baghdadi. intelligence from numerous organizations throughout the department of defense and across the entire interagency identify the target location approximately 4 miles from the turkish border, in the speech of province of syria. in order to reduce t...

Cnns tom foreman has more. >> im going to fire in a few seconds. >> what can 50 pounds of exploding target compound do? just watch. thats how much authorities say they found in the shooters car and youtube is filled with videos of people setting off other large amounts. exploding targets were developed so marks men could see when they hit them at great distances. the chemicals to make them are sold by companies such as tannerite, combined by the user in relatively small amounts and set off by hi...

Get xd out, and you figure out what it is relatively quickly. theres no sort of -- none of us are confident with the theory of the case right now in terms of motivation. and that will continue until we can have an explanation. maybe we have to admit there isnt an ah-ha moment in this one. maybe there is something that we will never understand as rational human beings of what led to this moment. thats where we are. >> we want to table this discussion for the moment. were getting more information ...

It is relatively quickly. theres no sort of -- none of us are confident with the theory of the case right now in terms of motivation. and that will continue until we can have an explanation. maybe we have to admit there isnt an ahad a moment in this one. maybe there is something that we will never understand as rational human beings of what led to this moment. thats where we are. >> we want to table this discussion for the moment. were getting more information about the exploding targets found i...