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>> reporter: up to now it's been fairly conventional war fare. they've put a lot of focus on heavy weaponry, tanks, setting up check points, mobile check points, but they're dealing with an insurgency that's been going on for essentially since 2011. it its composed of local inhab tachtss, veterans who know that terrain very well, and if you speak to human rights observers, they feel that the egyptian authorities, the army and police have been using really a heavy hand, not really trying to win the hearts and minds of the inhabitants of the northern sinai but really just trying to eliminate the...

Insurgencies. they have killed hundreds of police and soldiers there over the years and also just getting reports from reuters that we can't confirm right now that the egyptian military has started airstrikes in the area around that mosque in the mountainous area where they believe that some of these militants may be hiding out. but we've yet to confirm that ourselves yet. >> all right. stand by, ali. let's go to jacob. he is on the ground in cairo. jacob, what are you hearing from where you are? >> what we are hearing is that this is a very strategic attack. if you look at where the attack is...

Disposal. i think all of that will be looked at. i want to stress that these operations are normal in general. we have people in these places doing important work and i want to make sure that americans understand that this is more normal than abnormal as tragic as the loss of these soldiers' lives is. >> the pentagon has said this is routine patrol but these service members they were in unarmored vehicles, no rapid response from the u.s. side. does any of that concern you? >> it doesn't necessarily concern me. it's not really unexpected. niger is not a mature battlefield. we sent small special...

Concerns about something happening that is not intended because of him saying something like this, do you worry about that? >> you know, i don't right now. i don't see anything that was said that necessarily leads me to believe that this is going down the wrong road. he does have very solid advisers and general mattis and kelly and folks who understand the nature of war fare, is there a potential for a miscalculation with this kind of rhetoric? of course. the stakes are very high right now. i would just remind the president and any senior political leader as a former war fighter is to just tak...

Legal issues pertain to national security. ben runs a well-regarded blog called lawfare, which i think is kind of a page 1 on war fare. ? on may 16th, ben wittes did this online, on twitter. which is a weird thing. nobody knew what was wrong with him. nobody knew what this was about. you can see the time stamp there, he sent it at 3:18 p.m. on may 16th. hey, ben wittes, what's that about? well, then later, boom. literally the word boom. two hours and eight minutes