to implement a syria train and equip bramante and continue to work with ink forces. we will take your questions with that. >> when you talked about the mission continuing you didn't mention the other group. can you tell us if you expect the group should assume this is it? do you have battle damage assessment against them? did you believe it is possible you killed their leader? do you have any sense of what you accomplished that you are able to give us. >> we are still assessing the effects of the strike. we have been watching this group for a quite a time and believe they were near executing attack either in europe or the homeland. we know they have attempted to recruit westerns to serve or go back into their homeland. they are not focused on a regime but are establishing roots in syria in order to advance attacks against the west and the homeland. >> do you have any assessment of what you accomplished in those strike snuz >> it would be premature. we need to do more study. >> is it going to take you a year to train the 5,000 syria armie you going to need ground forc

raphael's work was equally celebrated, and bramante the architect was working on the completion of saintpeter's cathedral. but there were no commissions at the vatican for leonardo. leo x, a medici pope, chose to ignore him as a man who never completed anything, as a man who thinks of the end of the project befo he even begins it. one is tempted to see this period in leonardo's life in terms of the only painting of his, an early one, which hangs in the vatican, the saint jerome. in this picture the saint is alone and agonized, as leonardo must have been. in one of his notebooks, leonardo writes, "tell me if anything was ever done," as if to justify his many uncompleted works. and in a note to himself, he says, "why do you suffer so?" two events of great significance happened at this time. first, leonardo began his painting of saint john the baptist, his last great work. almost invariably the word "enigmatic" is applied to it, for one can see in it so many of the qualities of leonardo's finest paintings-- the finger pointing to heaven as the ultimate explanation of man's destiny; the grac