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The officers who led that attack on ramadi a lot of them are former iraqi officers. those are the kinds of people you want but they're out of range. and you sort of take what you can get at the beginning of a war. >> colonel reece for the president of the united states to authorize an operation like this and you're a former delta force commander, it's a high risk operation you. don't want these delta force commandos, their helicopters, the ospreys to be blown up if you will. you got to think there is really some high value there, right? >> well wolf any time you put helicopters in the air with...

Ground. isis is presenting itself to the sunni populations of these two countries as their own custodian and guarantor of safety and future restoration. we knocked out sad am in 2003 isis says we're going to reclaim baghdad. we'll expand. >> colonel reese we have some new information about the three british teenaged girls who are believed to be trying to join isis. the british police say that they believe that the girls have now crossed from turkey into syria. colonel reece, how can we know so much about these girls' movements and travel yet not be able to intercept them? >> yeah alisyn you kn...

Buildings to shoot the hostages, as they were approaching. they made every effort they could to save them. life-saving efforts on the ground, life-saving efforts in the helicopters on the way away can from the attack site, but they lost both the hostages. so, so close, but, listen, these operations are always extremely risky. the captors have all the cards and once they had lost that element of surprise, that appears to have doomed the operation. >> and colonel reece, there really is no turning back once you lose that element of surprise, right? they have to continue forward or make adjustment...