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Oga, an other government agency. and it's more of a unique, elite group of our best military members that have been training for years to take on this exact type of mission. go in. and that their mandate is to take bin laden alive, if possible. however, that said, if he offers any kind of resistance, you take him out. does that sound right to you? >> yes. i mean, if we think about what's really happened after 9/11, jsoc is a perfect example. it really came into its own after 9/11 to bring special operations groups in. i'm not just talking about the s.e.a.l.s, there's a s.e.a.l. team 6 or delta...

>> yeah, i mean, that's a common -- that's a common practice in these types of missions where you're going on -- you know, it's a kill or capture type of mission where you're going for a specific, high-value target with very clear and -- an idea of what has to happen. these guys do this stuff all the time. you know, it's similar to what i did in my first deployment after 9/11. you know, right on the ground in afghanistan. this is just the types of operations that the navy s.e.a.l.s. and other special operations groups practice all the time. >> we may never know who they are, but we surely owe ...

>> yeah. absolutely. you know, it just -- i think what this shows is that despite all the technology available to us today, just -- it comes down to these highly trained special operations groups executing these types of missions up close and personal. you know, it just -- these guys train so hard and the operational schedules are so demanding. but it really proves what these guys can accomplish. >> you know, there are debates in iraq and afghanistan with u.s. troops, but this sort of thing's on another level, isn't it? this is months in the planning. and just give us a sense of what it's like...

The ground, we have special operations groups, that worked on just this, and we have a number of regional, meaning within the state regions -- regions of the state, search and rescue who have been deployed. and, we have had no trouble with looting. we've had no trouble -- and except for digging people out and, in some places, the structure is so immense and houses are totally wiped away, obliterated, that some people did not survive being -- even though they got into a closet or whatever. it was a huge, very powerful tornado. >> jamie: not the only one in the south, certainly. i'm curious, gov...

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