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Counterterrorism efforts and has been on the high priority list to take off the battlefield. >> i'll take that as a confirmation, although you're not confirming it officially. was this most recent attack, and it was pretty elaborate, choppers, drones, hellfire missiles, going in, directly linked to that dramatic video that came out, in fact, right here on cnn, thanks to barbara starr, and her excellent reporting, was it linked to the release of that video, which sort of showed 100 of these guys, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, boasting on pretty dramatic video. >> there's been a little bit ...

President of the united states personally to sign off on using these drones with these hellfire missiles to go in there, target for assassination these individuals. it's a big deal when you're going after a big target. do we know if any of the so-called high-value targets were eliminated or killed in this operation? >> what i've been told is that last night there were yemeni special forces, an elite group of special forces, on the ground in a real hotbed for militancy. it's surprising enough they were actually there because this is a part of yemen that the military, for a weak central governme...

Saudi-yemeni border. he is using couriers, he is completely gone to ground. >> this was high definition, resolution, beautiful video, that was posted on youtube by al qaeda with faces shown. why would they do this simply to try to use it ace propaganda tool to recruit terrorists down the road? is that their main goal now? >> yeah to show we're here, we're in operation to recruit people. clearly it's not just a bombmaker we're concerned about, it's other people that he's, you know, that he's instructed with techniques and the group's potentially a threat. >> the obama administration, president ...

Disenfranchised, completely alienated by a sheer dominated government that when mr. maliki came to government promised to power share. they say they've seen none of it and they're fed up to the point where they are picking up guns. >> the u.s. is going to try to provide some weapons, maybe a little bit of training or whatever, to the iraqi government, but not send back u.s. troops. nobody here is ready to send back u.s. troops. so militarily speaking, can the iraqi military security forces alone get the job done? >> it depends where and how. if they got that -- the things that we've been talki...

Whether this fight is actually about terrorism. want to get the latest now from nic robertson, who's in the region. what's the latest, nic? >> reporter: well, we know that the white house is going to accelerate the sale of military supplies to iraq based on this outbreak of violence. those supplies will include hell fire missiles, potentially, as well as additional hellfires being sent, but the picture today, it's as murky as it has been, who precisely controls fallujah right now? is it the tribes or is it mostly al qaeda? is it a mix of the two? what does that mix look like? but there's an in...