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Collateral damage estimates, the cde, is something at the forefront of military commanders' minds when we plan an image —— an operation like this. so the collateral damage estimate is an incredibly precise algorithm that can be used for various munitions, whether it is a bomb or artillery, to look at the spread of damage, if you like. now, with this particular operation, i think it is pretty obvious, certainly from the footage i have seen, but it was a precision operation to capture the intended target. and nowadays, a live target that you can tactical question is much better than a dead t...

Military parlance for the precision air strike process. and that process takes a lot of time, energy and resource into figuring out collateral damage estimates, understanding what weapon selection will be required, looking at all of the intelligence that leads up to what is called the pid, the positive identification of the target, image intelligence from a drone which is doing pol, pattern of life, it is listening to communications such as cell phones, and the really important one, one of the major factors really important one, one of the majorfactors in this erroneous drone strike, is the hu...

Mikey kay, a former senior raf officer who served in afghanistan. i asked him how he thought the americans made such a deadly mistake. i used to be part of the kill chain, military parlance for the precision air strike process. and that process takes a lot of time, energy and resource into figuring out collateral damage estimates, understanding what weapon selection will be required, looking at all of the intelligence that leads up to what is called the pid, the positive identification of the target, image intelligence from a drone which is doing pol, pattern of life, it's listening to communi...

There isn't any military operation i was part of and sir, when you were the secretary, had to get approval with the cde, collateral damage estimates, on a particular operation, and it had to be approved at the very highest levels. they had to be within accepted norms. >> you don't want to diminish, obviously the loss of civilian life is tragic and especially in cases such as this where a drone attack was supposed to target a militant or terrorist and it didn't work out that way. but hamid karzai has been driving a pretty hard bargain lately and we saw some of that tension reflected between his...

So that when you target a military target, you're going to probably have collateral damage. collateral damage estimates go into every target. that's what's cynical about colonel gadhafi. he would intentionally put his people at risk. >> is that your principle concern there could be collateral damage and move these targets into urban areas? >> i need to tell you that he probably hasn't moved them. they've probably been there all along. of course it's a very large concern because the issue becomes this is an arab desire. it's a libyan desire to eliminate colonel gadhafi. the concern that the uni...