Stay updated with breaking news from Combat area. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
So right now that s the asset. on a going forward base, that may change. colonel, the president said this trip was planned three or four weeks ago. we know for general security purposes presidential trips are kept quiet but explain the specific concerns when a president goes into a combat area. of course you ve got other people that don t wish us well. nothing would suit them better than to put the president at risk. so anywhere the president goes, they ve got to do all the advance work, they have to maintain security and make sure he s safe while he s on the ground. this is a big operation. it s very hard to do without being discovered, as you ve been talking about. it s very hard to move aircraft around. it s not just one aircraft. i ve handled presidential visits in the past. it s usually about ten aircraft over a period of time. they have to bring all the equipment, all the communication. so it s not just an airplane landing somewhere. ....
The troops, have a conversation with them, but none of this is scripted and it comes off very awkward. what you re saying is exactly what i ve been hearing from retired military folks. lastly, i want to put this picture up on the screen. in is general scott miller, four-star commander in afghanistan. he s photographed carrying this assault weapon. he was walking with local officials, military prn ersonne he has his own security there. in a war zone, why is it a big deal he has this kind of rifle. it s quite rare, bob. can you explain why? i ve never seen a commander carry i think that s an m-4, ever before in a combat area. what that is signaling is i don t trust the locals. the last time he had a meeting in kandahar, he almost was killed. there was a shoot-out. one of his aides was wounded. so clearly the local troops aren t to be trusted. i don t blame him for carrying ....
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. ....
Novice. no. i mean, piers, look, you don t set off that many explosions without having tested this stuff. it s just a fact. you talk to anybody who deals with it. yes, you can make one bomb, you can blow up a toaster at home with a cell phone. yes. on and on and on. it s all sort of hollywood fantasy. but when you re you said fire, a running gun battle and throwing explosives out of a car, lighting them with a cigarette lighter, with i don t know how they lit them. and these things go off, it just doesn t happen. unless you ve had some sort of experience, or you ve been in a combat area. the special forces will tell you that most people freeze when shooting starts. these people didn t. they ran, they moved. they evaded. they held back a police pursuit. they had some sort of either ice water running through their blood or some sort of experience. right. mitch silva, would you go along with that? it certainly seems to me that these are people who have had either very good training or ....
With a cell phone. yes. on and on and on. it s all sort of hollywood fantasy. but when you re you said fire, a running gun battle and throwing explosives out of a car, lighting them with a cigarette lighter, with i don t know how they lit them. and these things go off, it just doesn t happen. unless you ve had some sort of experience, or you ve been in a combat area. the special forces will tell you that most people freeze when shooting starts. these people didn t. they ran, they moved. they evaded. they held back a police pursuit. they had some sort of either ice water running through their blood or some sort of experience. right. mitch silva, would you go along with that? it certainly seems to me that these are people who have had either very good training or they just are unbelievably freakishly good at getting information from the internet. but you ve got to say the former is the more realistic, isn t it? well, you know, inspire magazine had a specific issue devoted to how to ....