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Militia with iranian weapons fighting to reclaim the city of tikrit. signs of irans influence everywhere, field commanders review their plans. the pentagon watching iran with a close eye. happy to have the iranians doing the bulk of the ground fighting. but worried it could again open up a cauldron of shia versus sunni violence. >> for the sunni and shia sectarianism that has happened for thousands of years, it could be strategically disastrous. >> reporter: u.s. officials also worry the fragile...

And the region stabilize what it is that we need to do. you have to back off because right now youve got their leadership are actually acting as sort of field commanders in some of these battles inside of iraq. and the organization we were fighting against when we were in iraq. it is responsible for killing some number of americans in iraq. and now thats the primary organization thats doing the fighting inside of tikrit, members of the corps which is a shia dominated military organization and th...

Iran is also flexing its military muscles inside iraq more boldly than ever. lets go to barbara starr. she has new details. >> reporter: there may be some short-term military gain to having iran on the ground fighting in iraq but the pentagon is deeply concerned about some of the long-term implications. the latest u.s. military intelligence assessment most of the fighters here are iranian-backed shia militia with iranian weapons fighting to reclaim the city of tikrit. signs of irans influence ev...

High price we paid to get bowe released was in the long term the right thing to do. at the same time we are quite capable of taking the fight back at these guys. a point i would make here is when general mcchrystal or general petraeus, general allen, now general dunford, our field commanders went after the haqqa haqqanis, a deadly group, every time we did so, we were concerned that bowe bergdahl could end up dead. they put out a dvd showing they were killing him. we lived with that. i supported ...

Dunnford conducts operations against the haqqanis in the back of my mind although i supported those field commanders 100%, i was always concerned that with bowe bergdahl being held by them that they could make a propaganda film showing themselves killing him, because they obey none of the laws of the geneva convention law of war. so with bowe bergdahl no longer held by them, it also makes the haqqanis more vulnerable, i think, in the sense that we have no concern about what they might do to a ca...

Secretary under president bush, he personally reviewed the file of the taliban leaders. >> these are the enemies senior field commanders and irsuspicion ran leaders -- inspirational leaders to reinspire taliban and al-qaeda. >> while prisoner swap may be seen as confidence building measure, they wonder what the taliban can offer in return. >> i understand what the administrations objective might be. i only hope that if we were to make such a major concession, removing the people from american to...

Secretary under president bush, he personally reviewed the file of the taliban leaders. >> these are the enemies senior field commanders and irsuspicion ran leaders -- inspirational leaders to reinspire taliban and al-qaeda. >> while prisoner swap may be seen as confidence building measure, they wonder what the taliban can offer in return. >> i understand what the administrations objective might be. i only hope that if we were to make such a major concession, removing the people from american to...

>> deputy assistant defense secretary under president bush, he personally reviewed the file of the taliban leaders. >> these are the enemies senior field commanders and irsuspicion ran leaders -- inspirational leaders to reinspire taliban and al-qaeda. >> while prisoner swap may be seen as confidence building measure, they wonder what the taliban can offer in return. >> i understand what the administrations objective might be. i only hope that if we were to make such a major concession, removing...

Public. take a listen to ben rhodes, the national security advisor who was in cannes with the president today. >> if there is any specific timeline beyond what the president has already laid out which is we are going to bring 10,000 troops out of afghanistan by the end of this year. were going to bring 33,000, the full west point surge in afghanistan by the end of next summer. >> reporter: the bottom line is that these recommendations are not coming from the pentagon. they are not coming from fi...

major blackberry service outage. were finding out more about what went wrong. good morning to you. it is thursday, october 13th. this is your am "wake-up call." the treasury department has slapped new sanctions against irans force. the government describes a money trail starting within that iranian organization. but former homeland security secretary tom ridge says think bigger. >> its a monstrous ly buffet. they are working unilaterally independent of the ayatollah himself. clearly th...