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Colonel oliver north embedded with the special operations task force in kandahar battling taliban targeting the opium operations that fund it. >> just days ago, an afghan national security forces truck like this wouldn't dare have ventureed into the city. city of marjah it took two weeks heavy fights -- and the national army to secure the streets of this once taliban stronghold. today our fox news team was granted exclusive access to a visit by dea administrator and u.s. ambassador wayne. this is the heart of opium country. enormously challenging environment. soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines...

Army strategist, former chief of plans for the joint special operations task force arabian peninsula. also executive directer of the center for advanced studies. david, we saw what happened in afghanistan. that's where essentially 9/11 was planned, where that plot was hatched. now we are all over afghanistan occupying the taliban and any remnants of al-qaeda there. north africa, is that the safe place to go? >> not exactly. jon, the group that spawned abdulmutallab is very, very different from the group al-qaeda in the maghreb. al-qaeda in the maghreb is a successor to the salafi group for the...

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And we are now three weeks after it happened. america's top general providing some answers, but not many. detailing a revised timeline of the ambush in niger that killed four american troops. >> we owe you more information. more importantly, we owe the families of the fallen more information. >> reporter: october 3rd, 12 members of a u.s. special operations task force leave the capital of niger with 30 nigerian troops. their goal, a reconnaissance mission in a village about 53 miles north. >> the assessment by our leaders on the ground at that time was that contact with the enemy was unlikely....

Johnson. where, exactly, were u.s. troops when they came under attack, were they wearing body armor? and we're now three weeks, almost, after this happened. america's top general providing some answers, but not many. detailing a revised timeline of the ambush in niger that killed four american troops. >> we owe you more information. more importantly, we owe the families that have fallen more information. >> reporter: october 3rd, 12 members of a u.s. special operations task force leave the capital of niger with 30 nigerian troops. their goal, a reconnaissance mission in a village about 53 mile...