another wave. this is not shock and awe over baghdad. this is more like 1998 when we launched a bag of cruise missiles at bin laden in afghanistan after the east african bombings admiral stavridis, stay with us for a meemoment. we re going to go back to the pentagon briefly for a second. hans nichols our correspondent there. i believe you have additional information in terms of what happened tonight. we re getting a little more confident on the number of tomahawk cruise missiles that were fired, about 60 and hit both aircraft and infrastructure on that air base near homs. it s the latest from here. you know, taking a step back on this, given all our reporting earlier today, this does seem like a smaller version of the variety of options that were presented to president trump. remember, the big option was actually taking out the entire air force of bashar al assad. looks like they went for the smaller one. a couple things that we need to figure out here. number one, were allies info
this but we ve got to point out here that isis controls significant chunks of iraq. you have to be incredibly careful where you send the cash, where you allow these loans to be taken out. of course the fact that iran has significant control over baghdad, it seems like it is kind of a foregone conclusion they will benefit from this in some way or another. jenna: should we continue doing this? this is ultimately what treasury s intel is showing and how much they re able to control this i have doubts as we continue to say we want out of the middle east, don t want to deal with iraqs with we have this lightfoot print with isis that we ll have significant control. my prediction we find ourselves in crisis situation yet again as we find out more about how this money is being used. jenna: let s talk about leverage. we re providing currency and dollars even though it doesn t belong to us as amount of money. why don t we use that as
welcome back. the downing of flight mh-17 has many wondering if anything can being done to protect commercial planes from missile attacks. and a number of things are being suggested. our brian todd talked to a weapons expert and found out that technology exists to do this to passenger jets, it s just not all that practical. reporter: as crews cysift through the wreckage of flight mh-17, pressure is mounting for this u.s. senator mark kirk is worried about the safety of american passengers, calling on the faa, quote, to install counter measures on commercial planes. those systems could have prevented this, a november 2003 attack on a dhl cargo plane over baghdad. it managed to land safely.
measures on commercial planes. those systems could have prevented this. on november 2003 attack on a dhl cargo plane over baghdad. it managed to land safely. israel already has counter measures on its el-al planes developed after terrorists launched a shoulder fired missile and barely missed an israeli passenger jet in 2002. on the israeli planes a laser moves toward a missile and deflects it away. but those are designed to count ker only simpler shoulder fired missiles. to fend off more sophisticated radar guided missiles, one possible counter measure according to experts in various reports could be fired from the commercial plane in a canister that would burst open and send out what s called chaff, metal confetti. reflective aluminum particles create a cloud much larger than
kind of weaponry and finding people that know how to use it and causing a threat to civil aviation. this is something to be very concerned about. if you look at the radar available on the internet, you can see right now there are aircraft flying over baghdad, which is a combat area. okay. lieutenant colonel, we ll leave it there, but some very good points. a lot to be worried about at the moment. thank you, sir. insightful indeed. i have to say you asked him specifically. so which is it? do you believe there was a russian officer there or wasn t there? look, there are many people in that area who would have been serving who would still know how to use one today? if you knew how to operate this properly, that mistake wouldn t have been made.