good at coordinating u.s. aircraft to go against isis. these leaflets airdroped by the u.s. the message, freedom will rise. a not so subtle warning to isis watch out. listen i ll be meeting with u.s. and coalition forces in jordan defense secretary ashe carter says in northern syria, ground operations are extremely effective. they couldn t have done what they did, without you. and your impact as air power wouldn t be lasting without them. the u.s. intelligence community now watching closely for reaction from isis leadership. it s been a year since this al baghdadi sur man surfaced with no new video yet to mark the end of ramadan.
let me just gn this. they re bragging about 36 air strikes in the last three weeks, and eight in the 12 hours during which ramadi was falling. get this during operation iraqi freedom, when i was on the air from ramadi we were running 800 to 1,000 air strikes a day. so what s got to be done. you need to arm the kurds and christian militia, which is being formed up north. number two put more u.s. intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance overhead and more strike aircraft to the region. number three, put u.s. advisers and their controllers on the ground with iraqi forces. number four support the deployment of egyptian saudi, jordanian and united emirates troops to anbar province all the way to ramadi. target and kill the isis leadership. you can t just capture an accountant and grab his wife. do you think they ll do that? you laid out a plan for victory. i don t see it happening. listen this administration god knows what s going on.
catholic makes two catholic nuns from the middle east saints. you ve made it to sunday! i hope it s a little bit r&r for you today. i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. the new information on the daring u.s. mission to captures isis commander abu sayyaf. communicates earns its money. the next few days officials will analyze all of that data. a fbi high led interrogation is going to inter gait his wife umm sayyaf. reporter: not known in terms of isis leadership. a name who the united states say was behind the money, was behind the oil, which used to make isis
this detainee. 19 isis fighters killed in this. some of them said to be foreign. questions asked as to why the u.s. is willing to endure this substantial risk. difficult to explain to the american public if it hadn t gone wrong given barack obama said he wouldn t put boots on the ground. we are seeing a higher risk with the white house in what they are willing to do when going after isis leadership. they were successful in killing a man they hoped to capture. what was entirely in the u.s. cross hairs during the raid. nic payton walsh, cnn, beirut. analysts are split on what this means too isis. it is a boom for intelligence. it s the kind of raid that special operations relishes in.
capture alive despite the history of isis leadership. a complex task for u.s. commanders here and one that leaves them with they say, substantial intelligence about how isis works and this e detainee. but 19 isis fighters killed in this. some of them said to be foreign and questions being asked as to why the u.s. is willing to endure this substantial risk. a difficult operation to explain to the american public had it gone wrong given the promises barack obama made that he won t put boots on the ground. perhaps we are seeing maybe a higher risk tolerance from the white house in what they are willing to do when going after isis leadership. but it s a stark intervention that was successful in killing a man they hoped to capture. still many questions as to what was entirely in the u.s. cross hairs during this raid. nick paton walsh, cnn, beirut.