found in the coming days the country will slide into further violent conflict. >> reporter: a u.s. official tells cnn, al qaeda fighters which have vowed to attack the u.s. are now moving quickly to increase recruiting and continue plotting attacks. the u.s. just became essentially blind on the ground. more than 100 u.s. military commandos like these who had been tracking al qaeda, known as aqap secretly ordered out of the country by the pentagon over the weekend. this special operations forces were evacuated by military aircraft and transported across the gulf. fighter jets patrolled overhead while emergency response helicopters were stationed nearby. >> one of the organizations that has been most interested and capable of conducting strikes in the u.s. homeland al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, has increased its control of territory.