wasn't he detained? >> i think they are being genuine about saying what the outstanding warrant was. it's important to remember this was a year essentially after 9/11, it was october 2002. and what that mindset was like, what our authorities were doing. they were not shy about detaining suspects at the time. we also have to remember that anwar al-awlaki had yet to fully develop into what he became. so there was still an effort to try to understand who he was, what his influence was, what his network was like. and, you know, i think it's a different mindset right now. we've all kind of moved -- not moved past 9/11 but a lot of years have gone by and we have forgot what that mindset was like back then. if this fact we had had a strong case i would argue, yes there is no doubt they would have detained him and held him. patti ann: you also said that letting him go was a deliberate strategy to track his moves?