almost a million dollars. the recycling company is looking for the woman and they will give her a $100,000. the 50 computers were made as the prototype. and she was like i want to get rid of these old computers. i have a box full of black back berries. and now reports of airstrikes not being fired 75 percent of the time they go up. rob peters is here fox news analyst, two issues at play, ground intelligence or lack there of and the concern of
the fight against isis is really about swatting flies but if we re going to change the dynamic, behavewe have to drain the swamp. we can t have isis in control. how do you get rid of asaad? working with our local partners. there s not a syrian thomas jefferson, and so all the folks that have had some credibility in the regions have been killed by asaad in this fighting. we have to make sure we have good on the ground intelligence that understand these groups and the people trying to lead this country and that we re supporting them. we need to be a lot more aggressive. the attack is a perfect example of how aggressive intelligence can work and we need to be doing more of that. talk about tamping down the social media prowess of isis.
shortly thereafter and they didn t have a beat on him. they said this was six months after the osama bin laden raid and pakistani military and intelligence services weren t in a cooperative move and the trail went cold. for three years they had no idea where to locate him. that s really two implications for the story. one is that it probably is true. it s absolutely true that this was an accident. there was really no way they could have known he was at this location that they bombed in january. at the same time it outlines the problem with what a lot of people are now looking at. the signature strikes is we often don t have on the ground intelligence and therefore we don t know exactly who is at these locations before we strike them. phil mudd, you have been on the ground. you have been in this fight against terrorists. are you surprised that the u.s. had no idea where this guy was especially considering there had been some contact at least with intermediaries and there had been phon
is abysmal. we can watch it from the air, from drones, from satellites. there is some cell coverage. but it is only a part of the story of what goes in that you know, the u.s. cannot send up agents up there, operatives, and in a strike like this, you should have some sort of ground intelligence, video from outside the house. at the end of the day, with these satellites, you can t see into a house. apparently these hostages were not walked around at night or even during the day. they couldn t be seen. and you know, this accident, an accident like this, and it was ata terrible accident like this is almost inevitable. it is called a signature strike. you find a suspect compound. you look at it, consider whether they are al qaeda or not. and whether you know the names or not, the white house signs off, and that s what happened. i read a drone strike can t
as a teenager. he made videos. he was the lead prop prom began daist from al qaeda. he was in close contact with bin laden, he was killed in the january 19th the second strike. farouq was also an american. he was killed in the january 14th strike. that is the strike in which those two hostages, the american warren weinstein a well as the italian aide worker, geovany lo porto were killed in the strike. thanks. let s continue with general wes 0ley, which. the awe for of a book, don t wait for the next war also a senior fellow at the at ucla. thank you. thank you shep. do we have enough on the ground intelligence or from the air intelligence, on the sites we re bombing with drones, to be able to do so regularly without