operation from there. and he traveled to libya with republican congressman. i can tell you firsthand account my meeting with general ham, specifically, do we have resources in the area. the answer is yes. do we have proximity. the answer is yes. as to why we didn t send in some assets, the general said he was not requested to do so. tier one special operations forces deployed to southern italy were also never given the go order. harris: jennifer when the story was breaking the first couple of weeks we learned about two suspects picked up a turkey reportedly fake passports, what more do we know about the two men? well, we know that two suspects as you mentioned were seen at the attack site. they were detained at the airport in turkey and at least one of them, aim told by a senior u.s. official, was transferred to tunisia, where u.s. authorities have not been given access to them. much to the frustration of the
the u.s. military sources say there was a firefight but it was over in a matter of seconds. in fact, as the seems approached the camp on foot, the kidnappers were told were sleeping, and they woke from their sleep, fired, but they were killed, all nine, in a matter of seconds, the same seal team six involved in the ben roethlisberger raid in the osama bin laden raid but not the same forces, 50 u.s. forms were involved in this raid. shepard: why, jennifer, did the military go in yesterday? well, they went in yesterday just hows before the state of the union address. the shot was briefed on the situation at 9:00 p.m. on monday night we are told by his national security advisor. that is when he gave the go order. from what we are told from multiple forces it was the deteriorating health of the american hostage that caused