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Called unit 450 and is led by this man. three years ago, he was put on the u.s. treasury sanctions list, but so far, he has not been brought to justice. defense officials told us 60 tomahawk missiles relaunch last night. we now know one of those tomahawk's failed and likely fell into the sea, about 20 syrian aircraft were destroyed at the airbase. none of the syrian air jets managed to take off an escape before the missiles hit the target. we're told there were no russian aircraft at the syrian airfield at the time of the strike. pentagon officials say they give the russians one hour heads up ...

And as you heard martha report, any action if taken comes with great risk. obama weighed military action before. now, russians are involved and american troops are there. what are the possible target? and what are the greatest risks? here's brian ross. >> reporter: for the u.s. military tonight, among the options being considered are the very plans the pentagon planned four years ago when a prime target was the specific military unit that guarded and deployed syria's chemical weapons. unit 450, of the syrian air force. >> if you are going to strike in a way that is directly related to chemical...

Do these movements of chemical weapons concern you? >> of course it does. it's a shell game, basically. assad has played this game a lot over the last several months. if you go back to december, he was moving all this stuff around and there was all these concerns on the part of the administration. not as many people were paying attention back then because we hadn't had the sense of crisis. same thing in may. and the administration in some ways, or at least people talking to the press in washington, have telegraphed all kinds of measures they're trying to take. there's a group called unit 450 t...

>> of course it does. it's a shell game, basically. assad has played this game a lot over the last several months. if you go back to december, he was moving all this stuff around and there was all these concerns on the part of the administration. not as many people were paying attention back then because we hadn't had the sense of crisis. same thing in may. and the administration in some ways or at least people talking to the press in washington have telegraphed all kinds of measures they're trying to take. there's a group called unit 450 that basically is in charge of these weapons. well, you...

Diplomatic solution. does this concern you? >> of course it does. it's a shell game, basically. assad has played this game a lot over the last several months. if you go back to december, he was moving all this stuff around and there was all these concerns on the part of the administration. not as many people were paying attention back then because we hadn't had the sense of crisis. same thing in may. and the administration in some ways or at least people talking to the press in washington have telegraphed all kinds of measures they're trying to take. there's a group called unit 450 that basica...