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Karachi. one of about 200 al-qaeda planners working along the border with afghanistan, not exactly the high value target that u.s. officials expect them to begin arresting, but some say it's a start. bret. >> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon tonight. thank you. president obama is focusing on the middle east region this week. and white house correspondent mike emanuel reports that the administration has its hands full. on the streets of syria, protesters opposing the regime ducked and ran from gunfire. al-assad continues to enforce with the hopes it will press the opposition. in washingto...

>> chris: you would put it back on the table if you were the president and you got another high value target. >> i would have the program ready to go that any day we may capture a detainee with vital information about the next attack or some new development and i think that program provides us with the capacity to collect that intelligence and gun that program together with our terrorist surveillance program, those two things i think were the most important steps we tooking that kept us safe for 7 years. >> chris: as you know, the only justice department has reopened an investigation of a half...

Same way we need them. that said, i'm a little surprised, by the way, that the united states did not debrief these people before turning them over to the pakistani authorities. >> well, they only had 30 minutes. they had 30 minutes to go in and get the high value target and get out of there. the president even mentioned in the "60 minutes" interview he marvelled at the presence of mind that the s.e.a.l.s had to even grab those computers and that treasure trove of information. >> but still it seems to me it would have been possible to have some additional forces there to anticipate that there w...

>> chris: you would put it back on the table if you were the president and you got another high value target. >> i would have the program ready to go that any day we may capture a detainee with vital information about the next attack or some new development and i think that program provides us with the capacity to collect that intelligence and gun that program together with our terrorist surveillance program, those two things i think were the most important steps we tooking that kept us safe for 7 years. >> chris: as you know, the only justice department has reopened an investigation of a half...

Began, residents said there is a strong military perhaps preventing large demonstrations. this week, protests appear to be growing near the capitol damascus and demonstrators are defiant despite the government crackdown. u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon said the syrian government is allowing u.n. teams to come in and assess the humanitarian situation, a sign that the syrian regime is confident in the opportunity to overcome being toppleed. >> bret: we tell you what the next high value target is now that bin laden is gone. bin laden killing leads to a war of websites.