strong, the taliban. you can name all of these various groups and specifically as fran is talking about yemen, that has been one of the real concerns of this administration when you think back to the underwear bomber in detroit a couple of christmases ago. that was all cooked up in yemen, not afghanistan or pakistan. so just because you kill bin laden doesn t mean you can rest on your laurels. instead, the u.s. is going to have to be very aggressive in the months and years ahead. this is not over by any stretch of the imagination. go ahead, fran. the people who ought to take real message from this is the sort of whole message here is if you re the leadership of al qaeda, you re on this target list and we are aggressively pursuing you. ed, as we look at pictures of president obama at ft. campbell, kentucky today talking to troops and later met with the navy
give afghanistan a decent governme government. the obama administration is saying the focus in afghanistan is the fight against al qaeda. that s right. what you re describing sounds more like nation building. no, no. we have to remember, anderson, the reason that we are nation building is that afghanistan, when it was a failed state, became a safe haven for al qaeda. and we have to be very careful that we don t leave the job unfinished so that it becomes a safe haven. we re still talking about a place that has a border with pakistan that s pretty lawless, and until the taliban is not a threat to the government so that they can do the kinds of things they did in the 90s, we owe it to ourselves and the afghan people to see it through. i don t think this is a 10-year, 15-year job. people say this will have no end. it will, because we re making
the u.s. army had 10,000 for century duty, carrying messages and other critical jobs. today, there are only 2,700 at work in the military. but that number is rapidly growing and never before have they been in such specialized roles. in afghanistan, they are so prized for their ability to work around the clock, that general david petraeus has said the capability they bring to the fight cannot be replicated by man or machine. especially for dangerous work like checking for car bombs. we can send a dog in there without anybody getting close to the vehicle and you re not risking harm to anyone directly. the dogs can indicate whether there s anything in the vehicle or not. reporter: to purchase and train a single combat dog costs $50,000. and companies like canine storm have built a multimillion dollar industry around outfitting them. night vision cameras, microphones and radios are carried by dogs which infiltrate enemy positions, taking commands
roles. in afghanistan, they are so prized for their ability to work around the clock, that general david petraeus has said the capability they bring to the fight cannot be replicated by man or machine. especially for dangerous work like checking for car bombs. we can send a dog in there without anybody getting close to the vehicle and you re not risking harm to anyone directly. the dogs can indicate whether there s anything in the vehicle or not. reporter: to purchase and train a single combat dog costs $50,000. and companies like canine storm have built a multimillion dollar industry around outfitting them. night vision cameras, microphones and radios are carried by dogs which infiltrate enemy positions, taking commands from soldiers hundreds of yards away. flak jackets help them take down opponents without injury, and dogs ask parachute as well any human. one dog set a record for jumping
that was all cooked up in yemen, not afghanistan or pakistan. so just because you kill bin laden doesn t mean you can rest on your laurels. instead, the u.s. is going to have to be very aggressive in the months and years ahead. this is not over by any stretch of the imagination. go ahead, fran. the people who ought to take real message from this is the sort of whole message here is if you re the leadership of al qaeda, you re on this target list and we are aggressively pursuing you. ed, as we look at pictures of president obama at ft. campbell, kentucky today talking to troops and later met with the navy s.e.a.l. team, there s going to be an administration briefing tomorrow on the bin laden lead. we have gotten new details tonight, do we expect to learn a lot more details tomorrow? yeah, i was told by one