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Type of a mission? >> we've been urging the administration for some time to conduct these types of attack on a more routine basis like we did in iraq and after stan. these are raids designed to kill and capture leaders and in iraq and afghanistan an overwhelmingly majority of these raids we kill leaders and as a result we got a valuable amount of information. this is a good thing we've done army elite forces delta on the ground doing this daring competent, same thing for the helicopter pilots the army 160th who also fly the s.e.a.l.s certainly they're to be commended for this operation. we'd j...

The play by play of the helicopter, not know wing what s there. we know there was a run through with a replica compound in april just to put every part in place but you cannot account for what is unknown. >> well, sure. and they went into this operation again earlier one of the commentators said, well, disaster when the helicopter failed. they would have started with the assumption that one or more of these helicopters would either be shot down or certainly disabled by ground fire. so again, this was carefully planned, rehearsed. these navy s.e.a.l.s and the army 160th aviation regiment i assu...