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Ground operations and they have their own dispatchers and own ground controllers. and so the tower might not have known. there would be no reason to tell the tower that they are moving and repositioning a plane on the ground. there was not someone in that aircraft. they two different functions. you have ground control and then you have the tower that controls the takeoffs so tower probably didn t know it was just one guy moving the plane around. now that somebody has seen this, is there concern, mary, that can happen again at another airport? well, sure. and it s been a concerned, literally, since september 11th, 2001. controlling the 900,000 airport workers at the 450 airports and commercial service airports across the country has been a big issue. congress addressed it again last year. the committee on homeland security department. there is a big question what to do as to keep the airports and the traveling public and ....
Taxiway. other than things like employee assistance programs. and alcohol detection programs. most mechanics do have to take peer odd alcohol and drug test thousands. once somebody decide. a mccannic they will fake an aircraft. they are sophisticated enough to talk to the ground controllers. quite quickly get the aircraft out into a position where it could take off. i don t think, i don t think they would have had much time to react. before you move tult other point. we will get to it. if i can stop you for a second. would that be fair to say, that that is a glaring vulnerability in the system. or too harsh? clearly, a vulnerability. ....
Lines. these could be ground controllers calling in air strikes or advisers up there helping them take the fight to isis, that would put, if the president approves these options, much closer to combat. and the danger now on the ground there, not just combat from isis, et cetera, but you have russian war planes in the air, bombing really anyone who threatens the regime of bashar al assad, that includes some forces that the u.s. supports on the ground. it s a very dangerous theater and we saw that danger last week when one u.s. soldier was killed, the first in four years on the ground in iraq. and they ll continue to face that kind of danger. alisyn? jim, i ll take it. and as we ve both been hearing, there are guns pointed in all directions on the ground there. a very complicated situation. another complicated situation, china. not backing down on its claims in the contested south china sea. the chinese authorities have now summoned the u.s. ambassador after a navy warship passed wit ....
That s exactly what that special forces operator did mortally wounded in this attack. you see more of these, may not be a masked round exercise like we saw during the invasion of iraq but certainly danger and i ll tell you, anderson, there are people in the pentagon pushing for more roles for u.s. combat forces such as ground controllers or deployed military advisors but that decision stays with the president. terrible loss of an american hero. thank you very much. it s been more than 12 years since u.s. troops invaded iraq and four years since the last soldier was pulled out and wheeler was taken. it s a country racked by violence and civil war with the added threat of isis now. just ahead, cnn s fareed zakaria, long road to held, america freed in iraq joins us now. you look at the origins of the war and think it was in retrospect a terrible mistake. you supported the over throw of saddam. i did. i thought it was a functioning iraq that would be a middle ground between the very ....
But i m talking about ground controllers and pilots and aircraft that are moving at the speed of sound, in excess of that, and potentially going after similar targets. we don t have any experience with that. similar but different, there s weird alignment. the yat and its allies are targeting isis inside syria. right. the russians, sure, they ll target isis, i imagine, if they re nearby, but they ll also target anyone else fighting against the assad regime. those don t exactly line up. they don t, john. this seems to me very indiscriminate on the part of russia. they have multiple targets to go after as you ve suggested. the only ones they re not going to go after are regime targets which are from the med from damascus up to aleppo. they ll go up to where isis is located, but they haven t done anything against isis yet. so we should be very concerned. but we ve got a really hamhanded rough way to try to execute coordination at the very edges of an organization when a general off ....