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We are not revealing any extremely sensitive information here. this is a very open matter. barbara. i want to ask you a question before we get to break. considering, as you say, they were trying to marginalize him, what sort of a blow is this for isis? what this is, i think every u.s. official will tell you come tomorrow, this is a message to isis, we will find you, we will kill you. but still, they have to absolutely confirm that they got him. that may be a very difficult thing to do. they believe that they do. they are telling us tonight that they believe they got him. but very clearly. they are waiting for that final confirmation but the message to isis in syria, in raqqah in their capital is you can run but you can t hide. ....
As they tracked him around. jihadi john. and you are getting this they had gotten eyes on him, so information just as we re going to speak and were tracking him. on the air tonight i m hearing they have very strict rules. they can only take that drone shot with a missile from the it. i m getting it in realtime right drone when they are certain of now. who they are hitting and when he is a british citizen, seen in they are certain that there is the video showing the murder of very little likelihood that isis hostages including steven civilians will be hurt. they wait for these high value targets to be free and clear of sotloff and james foley. barbara starr has more now. what do you know? any civilians they may use as good evening, don, this information just into cnn first. human shields to hide just a moment ago. themselves. he must have been out in the a senior administration official open and they were convinced has now told me that the u.s. this was their best opportunity. has con ....
The u.s., the administration believes when it took the strike it did get him, that it did kill mohammad emwazi. but that is not confirmed at this hour. there are no u.s. troops, military or intelligence personnel on the ground in raqqah, syria where this took place. in the coming hours, while they believe they got him, no absolute confirmation, they will be doing at social media accounts and monitoring communications around the world of various isis elements to see what they have to say about this. they will be trying to do everything they can to get absolute confirmation. but what we do know is earlier this evening, the families were notified that the united states conducted an air strike, they do believe at this hour they killed jihadi john, they are hoping very much for that absolute confirmation. stand by. ....
Information. what do you know about his recent movements? i want to jump in on this point. he s absolutely right. we ask every day if not every week about jihadi john for months now. and so much that the u.s. wanted to get to. is he raeeally a so-called high value target? the league of osama bin laden? the top leaders of the terror organizations? what u.s. officials have said very privately is no, he is not a high-value target in terms of making a substantive difference on the war against isis. he is an evil killer that they want to bring to justice and that s how they did it they hope this evening. it is absolutely right. these are two essentially different things. this, if it was a drone strike, let me explain about how the drone strikes are conducted. ....
I want to bring in buck stetson to talk about what this means to the war on or repoterraare on h it is not going to change the reality on the ground in syria. this is the sort of thing that is a victory but it s not going to have the impact that you would see if perhaps you got the top leadership, and then quite honestly when you loob at the past of insurgencies in iraq, they were great victories but the insurgencies got worse afterwards. if you want to get him because he had american blood on his hands, absolutely, this is a big victory. from the case of what happens now with the war against isis, with the kurds, all of that, it s more complicated. they have plenty of fighters and unfortunately he is just one of them. barbara is getting new ....