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Years and right back to the front line. todd: why are these shows special to you. >> they are special to me when i went to a air show as a kid and told me i could grow up as a thunder bird if i wanted to. >> we are here to special capabilities of the u.s. army special command. todd: doesn't jump out of. >> pack for troops without a single flaw. todd: colonel guy we do these shows. >> the reason we do these shows is so we can give back to some small measure. the reason we do these according to the military is recruiting, retention and show taxpayers what they are paying for. todd: some of the m...

Next, special command. >> you can see in that video, there are blurred faces, could that mean al qaeda is preparing an attack? what does that say to you? >> i think the leaders don't mind their face on television, but the rank and file operatives don't want their picture taken obviously. they're very media savvy, al qaeda now, they're more selective in atacks. which tells me they have free reign in yemen and they can plan another attack. >> al qaeda's top bombmaker does not appear in this video, does that say something to you that he would be missing from this meeting? >> not really. i think h...

Pull the driver from the car. brian? >> all right. last week, a state department official was quoted as saying the war on terror is over but on the anniversary of bin laden's death, top terror experts are saying they couldn't be more wrong. joining us right now, former senior advisor at u.s. special command and author of this brand new book "hunting in the shadows" which is tremendous, welcome. where are we in decimating al-qaida? >> you have to look at a range of different factors. one is we certainly killed a number of al-qaida senior leaders but if you look at things like the number of affi...

Make sure there's redundancy built into the plan so that we have the best chance of getting our guys out. that's point number one. >> let's bring become our pentagon correspondent barbara starr to tell us more about the man, the individual, who actually ran this operation. tell our viewers what we know about him. >> you may not believe it but this is a man who trained to be a journalist and wound up living a life in the shadows. what is so extraordinary about this photograph of navy vice admiral mccraven is that it exists. taken last year when he apologized to afghans for the killing of innoce...