CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow May 16, 2015 19:15:00
Their major task was to try to capture this guy but unfortunately it didn't happen. >> well it's interesting that they chose to do it this way. this was a helicopter used -- they used a helicopter in this operation. there was hand-to-hand combat we're told. why that route instead of a drone strike? >> well because, poppy, the thing that happened here they wanted to capture this guy for the intelligence. if all they wanted to do was kill him, they just would have done a drone strike because it was a cross border strike into syria, putting boots on the ground. a lot of people are saying it's hig...