ambushed as they left the town, don. >> wow. let's go now to -- you're on the ground there. what's it like? what's the situation on the ground? >> well, it's a lot tenser for sure than we were last here about three, four months ago when we did actually visit the u.s. drone base here as well as the one out that is under construction. people when you speak to them here will echo what they were saying to us in the past in that they in and of themselves are very concerned about security and stability in niger. bearing in mind, though, that the area where this ambush took place, yes, it's not one where previous u.s. military elements have come under attack, but it is an area where the niger yans regularly do come under attack. in fact, just this past weekend 13 john darms, members of the military police, the nigerian military police were killed when