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Marched on palmyra in syria. these are three major operations isis has mounted concurrently all of which suggests that the strategy is not succeeding like gangbusters, so this could be very well designed to say, hey, look we can still you know kick butt and take names, its not the first time special operations forces have gone into syria and i dont just mean the abortive or unsuccessful unfortunately rescue attempt for james foley last year in 2008 jsox, joint special operations command launched...

>> what do you make of it? the borders there in popular areas are very poor. were hearing the alleged gunmen slipped into libya, got training and then came right back there and made an attack. >> the border has come to roost. if you look at a lot of countries like jordan, saudi arabia, the ue there was a lot of support certainly to kind of undermine the country of syria for assad. so they were facilitating not just with financial assistance but also with routes. so there have been, you know hist...

Operation. what petraeus is trying to do is make it more targeted, to be much more precise in how he attacks the taliban. remember now, the taliban is effective because its a well-managed organization. and by taking out the trainers, the money lenders, the technicians, the managers, the leaders, those who control the rat lines in pakistan, by removing that infrastructure, you cut the taliban soldiers loose and lead them out in the open so the coalition forces can do a more efficient job of takin...

People fear. that people -- that terrorists are not stopped at the borders throughout europe and that the home country wont take them back. explain how you see this. >> well, you hit it right on the head, alisyn. first of all, the schengen zone, that opportunity to travel through all countries of europe was established several decades ago, and it allows this kind of travel. the criticality of all of this, though, is the information sharing between countries that have very good intelligence and s...

As a soldier in afghanistan you expect that. >> the operation came five months into deployment. basically, the insurgents were bringing in arms, a lot of rat lines as they call it, ammo, fresh fighters from pakistan. operation rock avalanche was designed to disrupt that activity and engage the enemy on more equal terms. >> sean: the sergeant and his soldiers were not prepared for what happened next. >> the second platoon got hit badly, one casualty and two wounded. they overran the position they...