guest: well, the end game is not going to be light that of a conventional war. there will be conflict going on in afghanistan along the border with pakistan for years to come. what is invites for us to do, though, at this point, is to move us toward a status quo that minimizes the possibility of the toll ban getting a strong footing again in afghanistan and, perhaps, hosting, once again, al qaeda, but this is going to be a difficult task, the taliban is alive and well, in pakistan, and with the support of the pakistan government and that problem will not go away soon. clayton: there has been criticism of the oh bum administration during the al-awlaki killing. now we are also hearing criticism of the obama administration on the use of the drone strategics to kill him. the kill order. steady of trying to capture him,
strategy. i m for that. but i think the debate about the legal grounds for that strategy should be more in the open and we should have a legal frame work around our interrogation and detention policies far more than we do right now. reporter: the state department issued a travel alert in the wake of the al-awlaki killing. they said it could potentially trigger antiamerican acts worldwide to avenge his death. steve centanni with the latest. thank you, steve. syrian dissidents formally announced the creation of a council that aims to overthrow the president s regime. they read the founding statement in a meeting in neighboring turkey. the group rejects any foreign intertearence in syria and asks the international community to recognize its legitimacy. iraqi officials say four antial-qaeda fighters killed by two separate road side bombs.
since osama bin laden. the breaking news this hour, we re learning more about the air strike in yemen that killed anwar al-awlaki. first, a reminder of why this american born cleric was so dangerous. president obama says he took the lead in planning to murder americans. he s been linked to those terror suspects of the decade including the so-called underwear bomber, the accused ft. hood attacker, three of the 9/11 hijackers and the man who allegedly tried to blow up a car in times square in new york. we have in depth coverage of the mission to kill al-awlaki and the implications. first, to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. several administration officials say it was a cia hit. the cia and pentagon had been working with the yemenese for nearly two years to kill anwar al-awlaki. we had always had tremendous concern that after getting bin laden, that someone like al-awlaki was a primary target because of his continuing efforts to plan attacks against the united stat