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Its very dis -- theyre very disturbed about the traumatic influx of hezbollah fighters, more iranians and, of course, stepped up activities of ba shirt assad. >> which rebel groups did you meet with and what was their message to you? >> the overall commander of the syrian resistance was my escort, and i had a long meeting. they selected the people that we met with, which was a group of battalion commanders, who were fighting as far away as aleppo and around syria. their message was, to be frank ...

Traumatic influx of hezbollah fighters, more iranians, and of course, stepped up activities of bashar al-assad. >> which rebel groups did you meet with and what was their message to you? >> the overall commander of the syrian resistance was my escort, and i had a long meeting. they selected the people that we met with, which was a group of battalion commanders, who were fighting as far away as aleppo and around syria. their message was, to be frank with you, they do not understand. they do not u...

Intelligence committee chairman mike rogers told tuesday, he said every flavor of terrorist is operating in syria right now. you know there is one of the most well-known, probably well-equipped groups is actually aligned with al qaeda in iraq. how do you prevent weapons from falling into their hands? >> well, by identifying those people who are on our side. general address has a very sizeable force. he has battalion commanders he is in communications with. is it a perfect organization, of course...

They used their proxies ben in iraq, shia militia who they trained in iran using hezbollah battalion commanders and other officers to train them. the estimate by the outgoing u.s. commander of our troops in iraq, january alston probably came close to killing 2,000 americans in iraq. obviously now were out of iraq. patti ann: defense secretary leon panetta met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and netanyahu said quote, right now the iranian regime believes the international community...

>> reporter: mike weinstein heads the military freedom foundation. he is an air force veteran that claims officers often try to preach to him while he was in the service. >> the chaplains are the least of our problems. we are far more concerned with the platoon sergeants and the battalion commanders. >> reporter: at the air force academy, dozens of complaints of religious discrimination going back a decade, allegations that cadettes were pressured to become evangelical christians. in 2004, lieut...

Force his beliefs on soldiers who come to him seeking support. its a sensitive issue in the wake of a number of high profile incidents of evangelical officers preaching to their subordinates. >> its a terrible, terrible cancer eating away at the very core of our military. >> reporter: mikey weinstein heads the military religious freedom foundation, a watchdog group that monitors these cases. he is an air force veteran who claims officers often tried to preach to him while he was in the service. ...