sending troops. lieutenant colonel steve russell, the key colonel behind the capture of saddam hussein, said this about seeing the al qaeda flag rising in falujah. i want to go fight them. you have brave sunni. the majority of them are antial qaeda. we can t write them off. we have to watch the other provinces that are there. obviously anbar is very important. they can return this around if maliki is astute enough to engage them, to work with them and to not overstep. senators john mccain and lindsey graham calling the situation tragic but predictable. some scary moments at one of the country s biggest airports. the spirit airline plane trying to take off from chicago s o hare slides off the snowy runway last night. this picture was posted on twitter shortly after it happened. there were 141 passengers on
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.