down the road. u.s. officials will tell you that this really is the way they will be going after terrorist targets now, small, lethal, lightning raids by u.s. special operations commandos. kate. a key point. barbara, thank you so much. now that al qaeda operative is in custody, so what happens next to him? joe johns is following the legal angle from washington. what do you know, joe? kate, abu al ibi is being held on board a u.s. vessel. he is expected to be interrogated for several weeks from the high value detainee interrogation group. this is made up of fbi acts, intelligence community officials, led by the national security council. it s a situation where the target being intergatd isn t protected, doesn t get read his rights with the civilian protection in a civilian court. he is basically pressed for information about any plans for future attacks and names and
escaped, and they are not free. what s going on? that is that could be good. i read the accounts of this, literally 1,000-plus prisoners out there. it s a very different situation action to say the least. that s why the united states military, all the apparatus, every asset we have has got to be focused on capturing or killing those people who killed americans. i can t believe we have to have this debate of trying to encourage the obama administration to do this? this is a core responsibility of the president of the united states. just a final question, when you send in u.s. special operations commandos to find these guys and bring them out whatever it takes. we should have done it the day after the attack, if possible. yesterday you read about the wall street journal, cnn is able to go in there, but there seems to be no commitment that i can see, and i m asking the administration, if there is a
very legal, very much in accordance with the mandate of the u.n. security council. even hypothetically, special operations commandos, green beret forces, u.s. military personnel, they can t participate in this on the ground? is that what you re saying? they re that technical? i m saying that not under the u.s. chain of command they can t, now, there is a separate procedure for presidential findings, and if that were to be done, we would never know about it, this is a so-called covert action. and that doesn t have to be bound by the u.n. security council. and there have been reports of sas troops on the ground, obviously, they re following that procedure. we don t know about it right now, if there are any u.s. covert operatives in there, that s the decision the president has to make, and we may not know for months or years. there s a little confusion in my mind when the u.s. will hand over authority to someone else. and i assume you know, general
followed until now, the reports have been poring in, new details all the time. to cap off this week, we wanted to take a few minutes and look at the timeline that has now emerged one piece of the puzzle at a time. we now know that monday around 1:00 a.m. local time, four special top secret helicopters flew from afghanistan to abbottabad, pakistan. operation neptune spear had begun. there were about two dozen special operations commandos from the navy s elite s.e.a.l. team involved. s.e.a.l.s, as you know, go through difficult military training, considered the hardest military training in the world. for this operation, there was relentless practice. this compound was the home of osama bin laden s most trusted courier, a kuwaiti. the sprawling complex had protective walls as high as 18 feet, two security gates, a series of internal walls and
tell you we killed the you guys did a great job. fascinating new perspective from sunday night after the raid, after they learned the raid was successful. for the entire week that s followed until now, the reports have been poring in, new details all the time. to cap off this week, we wanted to take a few minutes and look at the timeline that has now emerged one piece of the puzzle at a time. we now know that monday around 1:00 a.m. local time, four special top secret helicopters flew from afghanistan to abbottabad, pakistan. operation neptune spear had begun. there were about two dozen special operations commandos from the navy s elite s.e.a.l. team involved. s.e.a.l.s, as you know, go through difficult military training, considered the hardest military training in the world. for this operation, there was relentless practice.