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That will contribute to a strike like this. then the time was right. and they took a great deal of rick but they mitigated those risks, but the rewards, as my friend spider just said are going to be significant. from this strike. >> senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is joining us from beirut now what's been the reaction from overseas? >> limited. and frankly those isis followers on twitter who we've been seeing not really making much out of the loss of abu sayaff saying that's their target the quote operation failed. let me tell you about the place where this occurred an oil ...

>> well we have been talking, michael, to a number of sources that will say to you are directly familiar with the operation on the ground in syria overnight. now, while this man, abu sayyaf was in charge of oil and gas operations there may be other reasons they went after him. we need to remember that the u.s. assessment was he was increasingly involved in isis day-to-day operations, command and control. this is the key thing that the u.s. wanted to get some insight into. two sources telling me that there is reason to believe he may have been in some level of contact with the isis leader. we d...

Cetera. we will go through, we, the intelligence community will go through that very very quickly to see if there is targetable intelligence proof of life of some other captors and what we'll be able to do is build a very strong very clear picture of what these revenue sources are that have continued to fund isis activities. >> it's just interesting that given the isis that in this particular case when it comes to terror activities women are afforded an equal playing field. they are put in position of authority? >> the irony of all of this you wonder what playbook you're looking at. it's not a...