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Or plot. >> passports. there's essentially, i guess, a black market for stolen passports. if you get a passport, this is just sort of a basic question, okay, someone sells me a stolen passport, what to people do with a stolen passport? have to cut out the photo, presumably, to get on an airplane? >> used to be much easier before we have what are known as machine readable passports. now when you come through a border, the customs officer slides that through and provides him with data. you have to remove the picture, put your new picture in. once that's done, it's very easy to still get caught b...

These tickets. >> right. that's right. he came forward, actually, yes. >> i think that makes it much less likely that he was somehow involved in some sort of scheme or plot. >> passports. there's essentially, i guess, a black market for stolen passports. if you get a passport, this is just sort of a basic question, okay, someone sells me a stolen passport, what to people do with a stolen passport? have to cut out the photo, presumably, to get on an airplane? >> used to be much easier before we have what are known as machine readable passports. now when you come through a border, the customs of...

Where are we with the other, to defeat al qaeda and the taliban. >> defeat al qaeda is going -- according to military official, pretty well. that's really the counterterrorism side of things. there have been many, many air strikes, both here and in pakistan. drone attacks that have decimated a lot of the al qaeda leaders. the dash counterinsurgency strategy fighting the tabl, trying to build up the government as an alternative to the taliban, that has been going. slower. even slower than expected. everyone said without it take a long time but now commanders say that it will be a year before we...