intelligence every single day, looking for the indicators to go. and once the giant special operations command feels that the interagency task force with their intelligence feels with actual intelligence they have the charter, especially the high value targets to launch. and the tough thing is we talked about this before the three elements of these types of raids, surprise speed, action. you go on an assault, you lose that surprise of action and it becomes a fist fight as soon as you get on the ground. in reality, is the mission to kill this person or is it to try to capture? obviously his wife has been captured i guess she will be interrogated. i think publicly the u.s. says the objective is to capture someone. it is the jsoc mission statement for both tier one forces which is the delta force
operation is formed to bring the most efficient aspect to the battlefield to get the job done with the least risk to the force. one of the other aspects now is it s not just the operators on the ground. it s an interagency force that we have formed after 9/11 throughout the intelligence committee and bringing this element, this exploitation capability which really becomes the main effort is how quickly we can exploit intelligence on the target back in the air and then back at the base to drive other targets so we can get inside the enemy. this was a very tricky operation because some of the reports i have read is that delta forces had to shoot around. the terrorists were hiding behind women hostages or wives or girlfriends or whomever so they had to work around that. again, that s what we train these guys to do. there s three elements to the raids. surprise speed and bounce of