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It is possible that you have a training camp, recruitment center and arms depot in raqqa still left for the french to hit in one night, what the heck was the united states and coalition doing up to this point? >> it's a fair question. these are difficult targets, raqqa is a heavily populated city, that's one reason isis is there, because the u.s. and coalition partners don't want to have collateral damage. they hide in plain sight in effect. isis does have an organization and needs stuff. it needs weapons and needs places for their leaders to hide, et cetera. they are moving around as best the...

In their target? >> reporter: well, erin, you have to be clear, buildings were once called clinical hospital, no longer used in that way by isis. they take over parts of the civilian infrastructure and turn them into at times prisons or other things unimaginable to the normal human being. we don't quite know what those buildings have become. we don't know the level of intelligence gathering that the west has inside of raqqa. they've been doing all they can to infiltrate that city. you have to ask yourself too, sadly, given the advice ral level of anger inside france, understandably who they ha...

And this is what happened exactly what happened. so we need to do that first and to increase, to put more resources to really try to dismantle the structures ever command and training facilities of isis which made it possible for several terrorist attacks in europe, including the paris attacks. >> jim shuuto, let me ask you something -- to take a step back. when people watching here there have been 7,000 or so air strikes in the past year or so. they know that a lot of those have been on areas near raqqa, they can be for given for asking what else is there left to hit. >> there are significant...

Kurdish militia force, whose capital i'm standing in right now against sinjar, which cleared isis out indeed and design d to cut off one of the key supply routes to raqqa. part of a broader strategy. i have to point out on twitter, some people who support isis suggest similarly after death of the jordanian pilot, there were air strikes and this could be a knee jeerk reaction from france. right now as we speak, the french air force in action over raqqa, highly symbolic, effective moment against isis. erin? >> please is a with mstay with . i want to bring in jim shuuto, unclear how militarily si...

Been, where they have hit and the accuracy of targeting and that's something else to be debated. it's clear according to what jim has been reporting too, that the americans are quite willing to share their raw intelligence about what's happening inside raqqa and it will be improving the accuracy what the french be able to do. talk of a ground operation, i have to be honest, we have to put that very far away from where we are right now. this is a hard deal here. even the noigs of building up the syrian kurdish forces who are close to raqqa, to do that kind of things, that's months off. sunni ar...