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4:30 thursday. and within three hours on thursday, last night, 8:40 east coast time or a little bit before that, the tomahawks are launched and the president is briefed on the impact of the strike just a short time later. so really a 48-hour planning cycle, start to finish, moving very rapidly through this. limited stiek, yes. but it was the message that the white house chose to send that you've been talking about all night, the message to assad. basically don't do this again. you do it again, we'll keep attack. >> what do we know about what if anymore action will be taken? >> right now there'...

But i don't think it's clear what exactly he has been doing in tripoli for the last three years. >> what can we gather from the timing of these two operations, the one in somalia and libya? any indication that they were connected, and if so why now? >> victor, i don't think there is any indication that they were connected. i think it is simply a coincidence. it's obvious from the libya operation that this has been planned for many, many weeks. they would have been surveying him and working out the operation that snatched him. the operation, obviously, in somalia against shabab, and that's some...

Authorities. and there's a daily planning cycle that pilots know in advance what to go up, mixes that can be scrambled, something unusual happens. when the pilots are in the air, they are communicating to their air operations center, they are probably not making any decisions on their own unless something just suddenly comes up. so, if they see targets on the ground, they are probably going to go back to the combined air operations center, ask for verifications to make sure there is no friend phillies area, know the location of the friend his, they will do everything they can to be effective a...

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