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Make real gains there, then the united states could be next. he sounded a familiar alarm about intelligence reports that the bomb makers in yemen responsible -- remember back in 2009 before the underwear bomb plot that they have now gone to syria and are fighting -- and are joining forces with the foreign fighters there. listen to what eric holder had to say about that. >> thats a deadly combination, where you have people who have the technical know-how along with the people who have this kind o...

Other passports. the same al qaeda group behind the 2009 underwear bomb plot now has operatives in syria and is working with the official al qaeda affiliate there sharing bomb making skills as well as their operatives, megyn. >> catherine herridge, thank you. >> reporter: youre welcome. >> joining us with more is lieutenant colonel ralph peters, a fox news strategic analyst. >> hi, megyn. >> focused on iraq and day by day we see isis take more territory and see more and more americans get out of...

Other passports. the same al qaeda group behind the 2009 underwear bomb plot now has operatives in syria and is working with the official al qaeda affiliate there sharing bomb making skills as well as their operatives, megyn. >> catherine herridge, thank you. >> reporter: youre welcome. >> joining us with more is lieutenant colonel ralph peters, a fox news strategic analyst. >> hi, megyn. >> focused on iraq and day by day we see isis take more territory and see more and more americans get out of...

Land that his family has grazed on for over 100 years. >> someone says if bundy is the feds standard for delinquent fee enforcement, then what do they have in store for those who dont pay for the aca? >> interesting. another e-mail coming in from ohio. eric, i know what the problem is. these cattle cant vote for democrats so they must be stopped from trespassing on government land. keep them coming. we love to hear what you think on all sides of that issue. >> sure. 7 minutes after the top of th...

>> wheres peta? why havent we heard from peta regarding this? >> e-mail us, let us know what you think aboutç that. in the meantime heather nauert standing by. >> this is coming in from overseas. al qaedas chief bomb maker is believed to have been killed by u.s.-backed special forces in yemen. he is the terrorist who is behind the underwear bomb plot back in 2009. remember that one? thats when a terrorist tried to blow up a plane with a bomb sown into his underwear. this would be the most seni...

>> under president george w. bush there was only one. under president obama there have been add least 90. its something, a campaign that president obama launched, as elise mentioned. it came in the context of the failed plot to bring down a plane over detroit, the underwear bomb plot, and u.s. officials are very concerned about this group which keeps trying to build bombs that are very hard to detect and trying to get them onto american aircraft. >> peter, what do you believe is behind the accel...

Underwear bomb plot in 2009 as well as a tart ridge printer bomb blot the following year. the chairman of the house homeland security committee who has regular briefings on the counterterrorism campaign, telling fox this morning were waiting for a readout on the casualties. >> i think the question is whether these are recruits that they hit to sort of downplay the recruiting capability or whether we got some more high value targets like the leader of this group, the number two in al qae qaeda. >...

Very hard to try to get to the areas and the fact not only carrying out air strikes and now sent in troops shows how serious it is and how seriously theyre going after the targets. >> follow it is video recently released showing the gathering of aqap members. mohammed jamjoom, thank you for that report. peter bergen calls the campaign president obamas war. i talked to him last hour and asked why. heres what he said. >> under president george w. bush there was one drone strike and under president...

To be focused in yemen. a lot of the attacks weve seen recently, the shootings, the assassinations, theyve all been directed at targets in yemen. its important to remember this same group is responsible for arguably the most sophisticated attacks or would-be attacks to target the u.s. in recent memory. the underwear bomb plot. the cargo bomb plot. these guys know what theyre doing. they continually are making efforts in this regard. the drone strikes that are taking place in these regions of yem...

Was im sure on your radar, but slipped through cracks amid all the news this week, that john brendan and other intelligence agencies have confirmed that al qaeda has a new number two leader. what can you tell us about him? >> he is the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. hes the leader of al qaeda in yemen. hes a former personal aid to osama bin laden. hes experienced in afghanistan. i think one of the reasons he was selected s number one, he comes from the arabian peninsula and the hea...