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Colonel oliver north embedded with the special operations task force in kandahar battling taliban targeting the opium operations that fund it. >> just days ago, an afghan national security forces truck like this wouldnt dare have ventureed into the city. city of marjah it took two weeks heavy fights -- and the national army to secure the streets of this once taliban stronghold. today our fox news team was granted exclusive access to a visit by dea administrator and u.s. ambassador wayne. this is...

Army strategist, former chief of plans for the joint special operations task force arabian peninsula. also executive directer of the center for advanced studies. david, we saw what happened in afghanistan. thats where essentially 9/11 was planned, where that plot was hatched. now we are all over afghanistan occupying the taliban and any remnants of al-qaeda there. north africa, is that the safe place to go? >> not exactly. jon, the group that spawned abdulmutallab is very, very different from th...

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And we are now three weeks after it happened. americas top general providing some answers, but not many. detailing a revised timeline of the ambush in niger that killed four american troops. >> we owe you more information. more importantly, we owe the families of the fallen more information. >> reporter: october 3rd, 12 members of a u.s. special operations task force leave the capital of niger with 30 nigerian troops. their goal, a reconnaissance mission in a village about 53 miles north. >> the...

Johnson. where, exactly, were u.s. troops when they came under attack, were they wearing body armor? and were now three weeks, almost, after this happened. americas top general providing some answers, but not many. detailing a revised timeline of the ambush in niger that killed four american troops. >> we owe you more information. more importantly, we owe the families that have fallen more information. >> reporter: october 3rd, 12 members of a u.s. special operations task force leave the capital...

We have fox team coverage. benjamin hall in vienna tells us what was accomplished today. we begin with correspondent kevin corke at the white house and what many see as a significant mission creep in the middle east. good evening, kevin. >> good evening to you, despite dismissing suggestions that this is in fact a classic case of mission creep. white house officials suggest tonight that this evolving strategy in syria is simply a reflection of conditions on the ground. for the white house this l...

Benjamin hall in vienna tells us what was accomplished today. we begin with correspondent kevin corke at the white house and what many see as a significant mission creep in the middle east. good evening, kevin. >> good evening to you, despite dismissing suggestions that this is in fact a classic case of mission creep. white house officials suggest tonight that this evolving strategy in syria is simply a reflection of conditions on the ground. for the white house this latest shift in syria strate...

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