you cut a head off, there will be a hundred more. everyone in these organizations when it comes to leadership is replacement. we re going to have to wait and see what impact this has, if any, on the organization. yeah. i was going to say, this comes on the heels of all those reports that the ahead of isis, al baghdadi may or may not have been injured in a strike and that his number two in command may or may not have taken on more in the control of the organization. but it all seems very moisturekmoisture murky. is this now going to lead the united states to learn more about how exactly isis works? that is all a possibility and it really is going to depend on what they captured when it comes to this operation. what information they managed to gather. we know some computers, devices, documents, other things that they managed to take with them from the house where the operation took place, what information are they going to
millimeter perimeter around it. delta forces came on in. hand-to-hand fighting, bloody knuckles amongst those soldiers and an extraordinary fight for this man abu sayyaf who they hoped they could capture alone. so a complex task. certainly for u.s. commandos here and one that leaves them with, they say, substantial intelligence about how isis works and this detainee umm sayyaf. 19 isis fighters killed in this and some said to be foreign and questions, of course, being asked as to why the u.s. is willing to endure this substantial risk and a difficult operation to explain to the american public. had it tragically gone wrong, given the promises that president obama said he wouldn t put soldiers in the middle east during his tenure. maybe seeing high risk tolerance for the white house is doing. a spark intervention one here the white house said it was
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.