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Probably doesn't but as phil said, this is not a quick fix kind of thing. remember how long it took to get bin laden. so many factors in this and it is a collage. putting all these different pieces together. the technical piece, the over the horizon piece. all of that makes a big difference. those are the kinds of things that need to come together in order to do this right and we have to do this right. >> phil, obviously the u.s. military presence will go to 0 basically in the next several days. so, how would that affect the ability for this kind of strike? >> boy, that is the right question. ...

Some of this does point to the view they have that the iranians are planning for a possible, possible attack against u.s. forces. the pentagon is adamant they are not looking for war, but they are ready to defend themselves if it comes to that. >> you're also learning that there's concern about iran's drone capability. what are you hearing? >> this is part of the overall picture of the growing iranian capability in this region and why the pentagon, why the military says there is increased evidence of iranians planning for that possible attack. there is evidence that iranian drones have been im...

I understand this to be a two-part test. a nasa remote fixed wing aircraft that's going to fly the supplies from the airport to lonesome pine airport. then doens will take packages to the wise county fair counteds. how does this affect what ultimately will be used here? >> well this particular area of drone capability is one a lot of people are interested in. this particular flight would be first within the united states. this is something that the united states military has been doing for a little while. there have been test flights, for instance in afghanistan during the u.s. campaign there ...

Operations. >> when the president is speaking of lessens to be learns do you think that equates to rethinking the drone program as it stands now? >> it is a bit of a myth that the united states intelligence community has a lot of information or perfect information when the they attack certain places in pakistan afghanistan, elsewhere. we are working with limited information. therefore we have this drone capability. people in the government have to make a choice whether to strike a place or not to strike. this is based on as the president said hundreds of hours of surveillance. somebody really ...

Officials, or u.s. officials have told me that despite the fact they had hundreds of hours of surveillance on that particular site that these hostages are so high value that they would never have been brought out of the compound. they would have been hidden well that's why it's possible to have all that surveillance and have no indication there were western hostages inside. in your experience when you were held did they keep you under wraps like that so you wouldn't be spotted from above? because they're very aware of u.s. satellite and drone capability. did they keep you under wraps like that...