joining us is al jazeera security contribute or tim crockett. tim, explain to us, if you were leading this, what would be your first step? what would be your approach here? >> i think the first thing they need to do is obviously establish where the gaps are, how much information the nigerians already possess, what avenues they have to gather further intelligence and look to bolster and fill those gaps. they can't work and operate in a vacuum of information. so i think one of the first steps they are going to have to do is find out what is what and who is who and build on that. >> clearly, the united states isability give certain resources nigeria doesn't have on its glenn. >> own and bearing in mind the area of their strong hold is in the north, in a very densely forested, hard to access area that leads to some other countries which might also be hideouts for these folks. i mean how does that fit in to the picture, and where can the u.s. help in that sense? >> yeah. it's very problematic to operate in areas that are so rural and ungoverned to som

team gets involved in the search for two girls, tim crockett joins us now with more on that. tim what are we talking about, if we say u.s. forces are we talking about boots on the ground, military, a significant introduction of force? what are we talking about? >> well, we've got to spread skill sets. we've got obviously some military experts there from various different units sponsored by more than likely the antiterrorism assistance program that will be made up ever various experts in intelligence, cries is management, intelligence -- crisis management, intelligence and crisis support. >> so are we talking about a large group? >> no, initially this is going to be a small group. this is an assistance program. they're not necessarily going to go in there and do the searching themselves. these are there to build capacity, work with other governments and obviously the nigerians to follow the lead and find out where these girls might be and how they can get them back. >> i guess that goes to the nigerian forces as well, these are folks that have not made the moves into the bush t