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What makes it threatening if isis has this, they want to kill or they want to kidnap american servicemen. they want to kill agents of the u.s. government because to them these guys are fair game. recall when they beheaded james foley. the brother of a u.s. air force pilot who is dropping bombs on muslims and islamic lands. this would be the ultimate high value target for them to blow up marine recruitment centers and something like this. a lot of these guys are savvy when it comes to cyber warfare. they're not asking for peasants. they're asking for engineers and doctors and people savvy with

Sharpmansship. >> reporter: if he was a top commander in tajikistan's counters terrorism forces there's another worry. >> the real problem is he knows how to plan counterterrorism operations so he knows how the people who protect a high value target would be thinking. or protecting an embassy would be thinking. that puts him in the red team on how to think on how to protect those plans. >> reporter: another ominous signal, his threat against what he called american pigs. >> translator: god willing we will come to your cities, to your homes and we will kill you. >> reporter: the state departmen...

U.s. between 2003 and last year. we spoke with former army sniper paul shari about what he might have learned. what skills he would have learned do you think might hurt allied forces on the battlefield? the types of training he's likely to have received would have been basic tactics and maneuvers, ability to say, move through a building move through urban area in a tactical way, basic marksmanship. >> reporter: u.s. contractors would have trained him to be a killing machine like rambo but if he was a top commander in terror forces there's a worry. >> he knows how to plan counterterrorism opera...

Important one to have. it's one, frankly, that we have continually continually, as you know and as you've been describing. different kinds of counterterrorism operations. some where you know the identity of the target. a high-value target and others where you know there are members of al qaeda and important members but you don't know who the identity of those members are and the latter is, obviously, been a subject of far more scrutiny and concern over the years. >> and that is the case in this. we understand and that's what some of the questions in the briefing we're getting at. was perhaps t...

Introduced, which did not produce results as zubaydah shut down and stopped talking, correct? >> correct, sir. >> since then, fbi agent soufan has been able to become more public. he has written a terrific book about his experiences and about al qaeda and he has been a guest on this show. he can now tell his story. or at least the parts of it that are not classified about how his nontorture interrogation works. and it worked. until the cia stepped in with torture, then progress stopped. but there is still a mystery at the heart of this story. we still do not know why the cia came up with there...