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Areas around raqqa, and quote, thank god no one was harmed and this is a translation from the islamic state outlet saying they didn't hit anything. the second part of all of this that we're following is this report in the wall street journal that the united states is stepping up its help in terms of its intelligence to the french particularly in targeting where to make those strikes. colonel jack jacobs is still with me as is the vice president at the center for intelligence policy. aki, how significant do you think it is and what do you make of the fact if this wall street journal report is c...

Operation. but those risks are by the command in terms how they allocate fire power and allocate forces to any kind of in addition like this. but, at the same time, where it might be high risk and high mitigated risk, it also is extremely high payoff. now look. victor, when i retired, i lost my security clearance as all generals do, but i will tell you i've seen many of these kinds of targeting packages and what is inside of them. there was likely an extremely long list of why you would get a case, special operations command forces to go after a target. this was not an arbitraty decision let's...

And then provide to iraqi officers there? >> they are mostly going to be leveraging the national resources the u.s. have. a lot of that will be from overhead imagery and unmanned drones. they will pass that to the iraqis and, in turn, they'll be getting intelligence from the iraqis sharing that back with the united states. so they can complete more better targeting packages, better strategies for the iraqis. >> following up on that, should u.s. officials, military officials, be comfortable, trust providing this raw intelligence to iraqi security forces, given the fact they are largely infiltra...