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Creighton abrams called the best battalion commander i ever saw in the u.s. army. after he made those public remarks criticizing the war david hackworth got out of the army in 1971, he had to after criticizing the war as a serving officer in that way, at least he believed he had to. gave up his medals in protest although they were eventually reinstated years later. david hackworth moved halfway around the world. he lived in australia for a while, became a successful businessman there. but then he started writing books. acclaimed books about the u.s. military and about our modern wars. and ulti...

Maliki said he would not step aside for a new leader. >> greg, thank you. >> and keeping in the middle east there is talk about the ratify willry of isis and al-qaeda. but my next guest said one thing unites them and that is a shared goal of blowing up an american airliner. american security is beefed up. the defense editor for the telegrap newspaper and young win store and the fight. and i will start with this where we are at. why is this double whammy between al-qaeda and isis coming back together so dangerous? >> it goes back to yemen. there is a master al-qaeda bomb maker at work. abraham ...

Martha: the defense editor for the british newspaper "the telegraph times." what do we know about what she did in 2005 and the bombing attack that her husband was involved in? >> the first thing she did was she duped the british authorities. after the july 7 bombings in london when her husband was one of the suicide bombers that attacked the london transport system, the british authorities detained her and interviewed her. but she convinced them she had nothing to do with the bombings, she knew nothing about what her husband had pen up to. but clearly she had beened a rallized. soon afterd she...

Moved my appointment three times and never got it. this year will be different, doc, i problem is. >> or i will bring you one. jenna: i don't want that. thank you. >> good to see you. jenna: you will hold me to it there we go. jon: the mall attack in kenya is raising lots of new concerns that terror groups are adapting modern technology and evolving in the process. the al qaeda affiliate responsible for the massacre said to include extremists from the u.s., britain and canada, showing how terror groups have really become a global brand, thanks in large part to the internet. they are embracing ...

Hezbollah's sponsor, iran, is playing an influential role in sowing more instability in the region. we have the defense editor for the telegraph, and the author of, churchhill's first war, young wins ton and the fight against the taliban. we have an awful lot of players here. let's start off by asking, is israel prepared for a proxy war where hezbollah starts fighting israel and then we get weapons coming up through the south which we'll show a map in just a bit? is israel prepared for this kind of thing? >> israel is monitoring the situation very closely and, israel is very concerned at the g...