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There. the u.s. watches constantly for any kind of missile launch for china, pakistan, kazakhstan. they know what's going on up there. the u.s. military, the u.s. intelligence community has not seen any indication of any kind of crash landing of a 777. they simply don't see it. and they feel that they would. could the plane have landed? that's the next question. you asked about it being potentially taking off again as a guided missile in some sort of terrorist attack. we've asked about that. and officials say you would have to assume then there's a large runway and a refueling capability and a...

Record. he was the deputy chief of mission, but he is a diplomat, a foreign service officer. and the pentagon's pushback is he's not a military officer and to suggest a flyover of f-16s could have buzzed the mission, the outpost in benghazi, and scattered the attackers, is naive, number one. it's hypothetical. >> right. >> and that they couldn't get there in time in any case for the very reasons you just cited that they didn't have refueling capability. they were not on the runway. it takes a couple hours to get an airplane, an f-16, fueled up and on the runway and in the air. >> so this falls...

>> officials don't rule out this could be a bluff on the eve of this iae a's report in order to get the world's attention and more sanctions on iran. those pentagon officials are also not ruling out that something else may be at work. >> shepard: jennifer, why is it that officials at the pentagon think this is now more of a possibility than before? >> well, one well placed us defense official tells me that a conventional strike became more likely after israel launched the stuck net worm which attacked 1,000 centrifuges and some say was launched prematurely making it harder to maintain the elem...

Viewpoint of the administration, the white house, or the pentagon, that they would be involved in helping israel with the strike, but, there is concern that israel would act alone. one of the reasons this was given do me is that a few months back, or a year back, the u.s. and israel were discussing cyber options tore taking out iran's nuclear program and that this was some degree of frustration that the attack on one facility was launched prematurely and that takes the cyber option off the table making a conventional strike more likely. this source says that israel has enough f-15's and f-16 f...

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