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>> sure. there's a big but. have you to think about three steps. number one, identifying that they know that jihadi john is up somewhere in syria. they have identified him on a phone. secondly, finding him in space. if you identified in making a mistake on a phone, talking to the wrong person, exactly where is he so you can begin to think about a shot. and the third is determining where he's going to be tomorrow. that is finding out where he was yesterday that's not good enough. that's classic intelligence. that's not drone intelligence. you want to predict enough so you've got an aerial devic...

Hunt them down again and conduct another strike. there's good reason, they say, to believe that they did get jihadi john. you have to look at xho conducted the mission. this was the joint special operations command. this is the group down in ft. bragg that's been conducting all these drone ops and tracks this type of intelligence bit by bit. they took the shot because they really believed that that was him. >> barbara starr at the pentagon with the latest. thanks much. want to talk about this more. cnn counterterrorism intelligence phil mudd joins us. you have worked inside the cia. you have h...