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0 the control of central command. tony. >> two quick questions. what happened to his body? was it carried away like with bin laden's body or too badly damaged? and two, administration officials told reporters today this had been planned for a long, long time, the president was presented in december with a tabletop model of the compound or the building. why was the raid now versus two or three weeks ago or a month ago? can you shed any light on that? >> yeah. his body was left at the site. as for the time being, it is correct, this was a mission long planned, months in planning as i mentioned t...

Is how they started off potentially as a calamity. we all harken back to jimmy carter's hostage rescue in iran. we had a lead helicopter here fail. it wasn't looking promising. president obama went through with it. there was a lot of nervous moments there. >> a lot of people say it was the riskiest commando raid of this sort, special operations raid in the history of the country. one of the people against it, bob gates, he was an executive assistance to the cia director in 1980 on the jimmy carter hostage rescue when helicopters crashed into transport planes. eight americans were killed and di...

We're talking a classic counterterrorism operation in this case now it could be a drone strike. it would be a commando raid. it could be any number of things. there are a lot of options the president has in these cases but all of this depends on intelligence and it has to be precise intelligence in order to get to that last mile of really what are we doing here and what -- is this leadership? is this another type of target? so it depends on the targets that they have and it depends also on how easy it is for us to find them? it may take a while to do this. >> that would require human intellige...

States wants to build a military alliance to safeguard the strategic waters off of iran and yemen the u.s. says it aims to guarantee the navigation in the strait of hormuz and bob bowman dob both crucial trade routes this comes as tensions escalate between washington and tehran. judges in the netherlands have given the go ahead for a holocaust memorial that has caused political friction the monument in amsterdam will feature the names of more than 100000 dutch victims of the nazis local residents had objected that the proposed morial was too big for their neighborhood . former u.s. presidentia...