many of them trained but not so well tran dined completely flagging feeling like if they re sunnis why should we defend them on behalf of baghdad? it s controlled by shia and backed by iraq. we will look at the head of the defense committee t. iraqi army did have the will to fight ramadi. they lacked aerial support. it goes no what you are saying. it s not just you talk about morale the equipment and even the training. we said they were combat ready the u.s. did you do when we left. you think that was a misstatement? look. if nobody wants to discuss the fact the organic cultural nature of iraq is what can save iraq? without empowering the sunni, there were sunni tribesmen, sons of iraq who said we run out of ammunition. we couldn t stand, we couldn t fight. is tattoo simplistic of a view though? not really. we can t just give him weapons,
whether or not we can talk them out or whether some assault is going to have to be effected. tom, one last question about equipment. i know that a lot of this is kept from us for good reason, but as we become more sophisticated with drone capabilities and some of these drones are as small as flies, are these employed often and are they successful? are they sort of what have given us a greater edge in determining logistics and tactical advantage in trying to do these takedowns? getting a small camera inside the actual location? get iting a camera inside th location is different than having a drone. aerial support happens at the fbi. we use aircraft, we use drones to get a picture from the air, of the exits of the building, the layout, the block, how to position your perimeter and where to put your command post. to try to get cameras in the
michaela, 8:00 pm sunday night. a boyfriend and girlfriend, christina mckenzie, 25. they took their two children, ages 3 and 4, and a niece and nephew out. they haven t had any communication with their family since they went out sunday. this is really a race against the clock. search and rescue team out, conducting an aerial search. it s becoming a dire situation because of the frigid temperatures. at one point it got to 16 below zero and we re expecting the clouds to move in which, of course, could hamper the search and rescue efforts. so what authorities are hoping for is that they re going to be able to see the top of their jeep. silver jeep with a blacktop. the hope is, of course, that they would be able to spot that. other than that, they don t have anything to work with. aerial support is so important. they ll try to pick up any
is that nato s aerial support, those drone attacks were indispensable to this last phase of the great rush into tripoli. if you see that kind of fire power coming at you, you ll probably try to blend into the background, too. the issue will be, can the die har hards now with the kind of inuri insurgency that we saw in iraq. are they courageous enough to ask for nato and american help now when they may need it? the rebels at this point hold 80% to 90% of tripoli. this could be a big tipping point day. thank you very much for joining us. lovely to be here. thank you, judith. thank you. keep work the story. don t get any sleep. not likely with you guys around. fantastic. thank you, judith. let s take a look at some of the headlines. a boy scout troop leader stabbed
one of the oil refineries. scores of casualties were reported on both sides. right now, the united states is considering a request from libyan rebel leaders to lend the military help against the gadhafi regime. they need weapons and they want america to declare libya a no-fly zone and enforce that with aerial support. that is something that u.s. defense secretary robert gates cautions could lead us into war. there s a lot of, frankly, loose talk about some of these military options and let s just call spade-to-spade. a no-fly zone begins with an attack on libya. to destroy the air defenses. that s the way you do a no-fly zone, and then you can fly planes around the country and not worry about our guys being shot down. but that s the way it starts.