been there to begin with, but what i can say with absolute authority is we have a moral obligation, not only to rescue our citizens, yes, but also to do everything we can to protect these afghan christians. look, i know that america can t do everything in the world, but we can do some things, and protecting the small group of believers is a basic value of america, and it s something we need and should do. shannon: well, and derrick, i m talking with military folks on the ground who are desperately trying to get people out. they say they are aware of arrangements and in contact with people that are civilian flights, private flights and charters that will come in and get people. they cannot get air clearance from the state department. they say the administration seems to be completely disorganized on this, but there are private actors who want to go in and help as much as they possibly can. any way to resolve that at this point, other than publicly to the state department, what are you
four years in a u.s.-run prison camp in southern iraq until his release in 2009. within a year he became a leader of al qaeda in iraq but eventually broke away to form the islamic state of iraq and syria. the u.s. is now offering a $25 million reward for al baghdadi s capture. what we do know, of course, was that this raid was based on cia intelligence in an area where normally the united states would not even have boots on the ground. and that is highly significant. cedric layton is a former deputy director of the nsa and is a cnn military analyst. he joins us now live from washington. and i want to talk to you about that. we ve gotten in northwest syria here, an area where it s conceivable that without tipping off the russians or turkish forces or the syrian force that s they would have had to get air clearance, right? or do you believe this was more
i m not sure. the members that voted for it i imagine will want to pony up resources to make it happen. it is a very difficult task bringing together the different types of aircraft, all the air clearance messages, all the type of coordination that needs to take place, not the least of which is who s got the lead. it s clearly not the united nations. it s going to be tagged with some nation s flag in orders to implement this. how long it s going to take, i don t know. at a minimum, it s going to be several days. but the thing that s very difficult here is that no-fly zone by itself does very little. gadhafi doesn t need his aircraft, frankly, to achieve the results that he s trying to achieve. what needs to be in place is something that s akin to the operation northern watch and operation southern watch which w was implemented in iraq for the intervening years for desert storm in the early 90s and
wire and found the rounds. we have four teams out right now. finding four or five ied s a day or more. it s right here. the way the taliban have set these ied s, it would kill at least two or three u.s. soldiers as they patrolled. u.s. soldiers call this a squad killer. shepard, we have been patrolling with u.s. troops the past few days, walking these alleyways and ied s are always on our mind but it s pretty i couldn t know nerving to see it that close. there are ied s all over the place we re finding them all the time. laying explosives on the pile of bomb making material in a few minutes they were explode it. requesting air clearance right now. we showed you this past friday the rope marking ied. only a hundred meters or so down the road. fire in the hole!