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New runways that have been built that the c.i.a. is using. it is likely that the c.i.a. was involved and that the joint special operations command, the same group that carried out the bin laden raid back on may 5th when anwar al-awlaki was nearly killed in a -- in a coordinated strike on his -- on his convoy on the road, there were herrier jets involved and there was a special operations helicopter as well as predator drones and new kind of hellfire missile so most likely if -- and at the time when we reported that back in july when we got details about how they narrowly killed him, there were...

That's it, they would see that as a huge, huge blow on their sovereignty, which raises, at least in my mind, the thought if the u.s. had information where ayman al zawahiri, or these other guys are, they'd use a predator zone or hellfire missile or other bomb that wouldn't require the u.s. commandos to go in. give me your thought. >> we have no choice but to pursue these guys. one thing about pakistan i have numbers for you interesting. 6 out of every 10 pakistanis view the u.s. as an enemy. we are less popular, if you will, than india, in pakistan. only 11% of pakistanis think the u.s. is a p...

Finding bin laden there was 60% to 80%. i was told by a senior administration official there was no guarantee by any stretch, but still, the president, and i believe that the cia director leon panetta agreed that it would be best to go in with a helicopter rather than bomb the place because, of course, if you were going to get bin laden, you wanted a body. you wanted proof. you wanted to know that you had actually killed him. and that's why they decided to do it this way. >> if they sent a hellfire missile or a tomahawk cruise missile, you might never have known that bin laden was dead. >> rig...

>> reporter: predator drones are used to give close air support and to try and eliminate small precise targets. in misrata, for example, there are snipers operating in buildings, there are vehicles that look just like civilian vehicles that are used by gadhafi forces. if you're flying at 20,000 feet, a nato jet certainly can't hit a sniper in a window and will have great difficulty identifying one toyota land cruiser from another. a predator can stay in the air a long time, it can watch the movement, who comes in and out of that toyota land cruiser, and can fire a relatively small missile, a h...

The taliban has a presence, and indicative of, you know, the pakistani intelligence agency helping with the united states to arrest quite a number of people in the last ten days, kiran. >> you know, peter, it's john here, the fact that they were arrested in karachi, there's been some high-profile arrests, what does it say to the idea to this wisdom that all the ope operatives have been living in the frontier regions on the border between pakistan and afghanistan? >> well john, as you know, since the summer of 2008 under the bush administration, now the obama administration, the american drone ...