emwazi for several days. he had been in some location outside of raqqa, syria. began to move into raqqa. that s had they picked up his trail. and they have been trailing him very closely since wednesday. it was yesterday when that drone moved in and took the shot against him when he stepped out of a building and into a vehicle. so, now, why is everybody saying they think they got him but they are not absolutely certain? the reason is this. the u.s. has no military or u.s. intelligence personnel on the ground in syria, in raqqa, so they have no dringt eyirect eye target. they can t be absolutely 100% sure. they knew it was him when they took the shot. they knew they struck the vehicle. what they are now doing is going through and monitoring every piece of intelligence coming in. isis social media accounts, intercepts, classified communications, talking to people who may know something about all of this.
large number of the peshmerga. kate? nick paton walsh there for us. great to hear from you. thank you so much. we were talking about isis and talking about sending messages. isis sent a powerful and deadly message in a different way, killing dozens in beirut. cnn s clarissa ward is there as one of the suicide bombers who survived this attack makes a very big admission. plus any moment now, ben carson will respond live to donald trump s 95-minute speech and piece of performance art. you re seeing it right there. in an cnn interview he compared carson to a child molester. we ll hear from donald trump says, and what donald trump says about isis . i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them.
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so, even if there was some penetration you find isis and al qaeda pretty good, bridge the gap to avoid this from happening again. that poses one of the risks they have to take. another isis fighter could easily step into the position that jihadi john filled. being the murderous face of these horrific beheadings isis carries out. what do you think of how high priority this attack was when you weigh the risk? they re going to learn from an attack like this as well. zero risk. the risk in this case is ensuring you have a shot that has minimal prospect of killing innocents, especially women and children. and obviously heightening the probability you are killing the person you think it is. in this case, jihadi john. the risk he ll be replaced to me is zero for the following reason. when you re sitting there trying to determine what to do in the
thanks for being with us. great to see you. got a different major development in the battle against isis. kurdish forces claim they have retain the town of sinjar on a key highway linking the land controlled by isis in iraq and syria. the two-day assault backed by u.s.-led coalition air strikes. right now a kurdish flag flies over the city, so is the fight over there? is the city liberated? senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is on the phone with us. you ve watched this fight unfold. you were there on the front lines watching it play out. is this town liberated, as kurdish leaders say? reporter: it s certainly no longer under the control of isis, that s for sure. entirely under the control of peshmerga? when we left four or five hours ago, that was unclear. during our time, about two hours, there were moments in which they were over our head and fairly chaotic reactions from the peshmerga who said two