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May not like to call them legitimate combatants but they are. they have nothing to do with taking of american civilian lives like 9/11. you know, most of these guys, the five released were there before 9/11. and there's -- >> we shouldn't paint them with a rosy brush. they are bad actors that committed great atrocities to civilians in afghanistan. >> all five of them war crimes. but the people we negotiated with, the hakani network. we can't leave anybody on the field of battle. that's the way militaries go to war. >> david, you talked to family members who have people still being held hostage...

Troops in afghanistan next year, one military analyst says, there is real jeopardy when you look at the bigger picture. >> as the u.s. begins to withdraw units out of afghanistan, the strategy is to replace that with machines, with armed and unarmed drones. if the pressure grows in pakistan to either diminish or god forbid remove the possibility of the use of the armed drones, that vacuum that we will create by pulling out of afghanistan will inevitably be filled by the taliban, by the hakani network and perhaps over the long term, al qaeda. national security experts are emphasizing today th...

Afraid to see what we see with pakistan. we've thought we could buy pakistan's friendship, accept their promise to cooperate with us on the war on terror broadly or afghanistan specifically but pakistan use terrorists against us and use them via the haqqani network to attack our embassy in afghanistan. this country, even though we give it far more than a billion dollars in aid each year, it's a state sponsor of terrorism and where he need to get away from the theory they're coming from the cold and they're going to be our friend and have gotten religion and will start fighting terrorists rathe...

Pakistan just as they appeared to warm? >> some of that funding may force the u.s. to go after the assets of pakistan's intelligence service which supported the hakani network. >> the network acts as a veritable arm of pakistan's internal services intelligence agency. >> the hakani group is made of afghan fighters, they're supported by the c.i.a. in pakistan. if the network is now designated a foreign terrorist organization why isn't the taliban. the u.s. military believes the neck is irreconcile able. >> jennifer thank you. experts say the situation in syria could get a lot more dangerous. hu...

Lebanon? >> that would be a huge red line. incidentally the obama administration, president obama himself, came out and announced this change of policy right when defense secretary panetta came back from israel. almost certainly the change came about due to a warning from israel and expression of concern. israel's not afraid to act when threatened. in 2007 they blew up a nuclear facility they were building for syria. if you see anything that looks like transfer of arms from hezbollah, you would see the israel military act. >> i want to change gears a little bit. this decoration of the haqqani ...