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Airports. demanding instead that they be stored in checked luggage. >> elevated intelligence that were aware of indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks to include smuggling of explosive devices and various consumer objects. >> officials have told cnn there was credible and specific intelligence that isis would try to attack aviation assets, and a hint from a top u.s. commander about why th...

U.s. commander about why the accelerated effort on the ground in syria against the group. >> theres an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqah because our intelligence feeds tell us that there is a significant external operations attacks planning. >> reporter: al qaedas affiliate in yemen, aqap, has for years been actively trying to target commercial airliners destined for the u.s. looking for ways to create bombs that contain little or no metal content to evade airport security measu...

Accelerated effort on the ground in syria again the group. >> theres an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqa rnl becau because our intelligence feeds tell that is theres significant external operation attacks planning. >> reporter: al qaeda affiliates in yemen aqap for years has been actively trying to target commercial airliners destined for the u.s. looking for ways that contain bombs that contain little or no metal content to evade airplane security measures including hiding expl...

The group. >> theres an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqah. because intelligence feeds tell us that there is a significant external operations attacks planning. >> al qaedas affiliate in yemen has for years been actively trying to target commercial airliners destined for the u.s. looking for ways to create bombs that contain little or no metal content to evade airport security measures. including hiding explosives in the batteries of electronic devices like laptops. and in februa...

Assisting. not sure if it was syrian defense forces or kurdish forces. trying to surround raqqa and stop the terrorists from leaving that city. the advise and assist role is really misunderstood by the american people, brooke. it is not leading others in combat, but certainly right there with those who are leading. giving some thoughtful perspectives of the battlefield from an experience standpoint. but, also, providing some assistance with intelligence feeds, perhaps calling which is critical i...

United states says the fight to kick isis out of iraq is only the beginning barbara starr is working the story. i take it this next offensive is looming? >> reporter: it is looming indeed. tonight a new urgency to open up the fight, to get raqqah back and maybe, just maybe get to isis top leader. sounding an alarm act raqqah. a city of nearly a quarter million where the top isis commanders have long been thought to be hiding. >> there is an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqah. bec...

Have thank you been thought to be hiding. >> there is an imper tiff ativet isolation in place around raqqa. our intelligence feeds tell us there is a significant external operations attacks planning going on, emanating centralized in raqqa. >> reporter: how urgent is it? >> we think its very important to get isolation in place around raqqa to start controlling that environment. on a pretty short time line. >> reporter: this, as the fight for mosul in iraq goes on. emotional scenes of families be...

Human beings make a mistake. if i could go back to the targeting in raqqa, having been a guy that planned operations what you have to understands is theres more kinetic strikes going on primarily not because we wanted to start pulling more trigger, but we have more intelligence. were getting greater intelligence feeds and able to bomb more targets. good point there. thank you so much for coming on to discuss. coming up here in "the situation room", as demonstrators wait outside south carolin...

Commander in europe, every event we held we would conduct threat assessments on the event and we had continuous, ongoing threat assessments. you have a small group of people that come together, that actually do that. but i think the notion that this weekend, because of the fourth of july holiday, and because of the admonitions of one of the isis leaders saying, attack during ramadan, this will give you additional credit in heaven during this holy month, that assessment has been ordered just to m...

Whole range of threat, don. looking closely and particularly looking closely at this constant effort to find ways to flights into europe and the u.s. >> very disturbing. thank you have very much. now out front to discuss the latest threats seeing military analyst, and major general marks and counterterrorism analyst mudd, former cia and fbi official. thank you gentlemen for joining me tonight. very serious subject. general marks, how serious is this new threat? >> well, it is serious and i dont ...