terror and is now the much more complex goal of trying to suppress isis while not putting the pull scale of iraqi boots back on the ground in iraq. such memories of the iraq war are still lingering and unpopular with the american public. that video providing such an intimate view of the front-line work the american commandos were involved in, poppy. thank you very much for that, nick. master sergeant joshua wheeler s death has reignited new questions about what exactly is the role of u.s. troops on the ground in iraq? with me, former president obama campaign policy advisor and state department official bob bair with us, intelligence and security analyst. bob, your reaction first to the video that we saw. that was remarkable. it seemed like something out of a movie but it was real. was this textbook? it was textbook. this is particularly hard. it s a hostage rescue, an
smuggling business within a short period of time. yes, it is a persistent problem in moldova, wolf. it goes beyond the people they have been able to target in the sting operation, but other smugglers there who they don t have a good handle on, and you are right, some of the people have not enough time, but they are sting operation, and the materiels are not a huge amount. again, this is a situation where it is not believed that these people necessarily are working with terrorist, but they simply don t care to whom they sell their materiels to. thank you, evan, very much. joining us to talk about this disturbing development, and joining us from irvine, california, is our cnn intelligence security analyst bob bair and also our expert robbie gosch. how would this be dangerous if they were to get their hands on
if we don t have an iraqi success in the next couple months, then we are going to have to start questioning the strategy. and five additional moderate syrian rebels affiliated with the u.s. also captured by al nusra tonight. the pentagon at what options. what obligations it may have to try and help move some of the remaining rebels to safety inside syria. at the pentagon, thank you, barbara starr. we want to talk about all of these developments with mike rogers, chairman of the house committee. we have cnn terrorism analyst paul crook shank and security analyst, bob bair. first to you. you re very familiar with al asiri. ibrahim al asiri. he is basically a bomb making master mind. the fact that he is alive is a
isis is not your parent s al qaeda qaeda, that from james comey in a one-on-one interview with our wolf blitzer. comey was discussing bigger threats to the u.s., in particular isis. take a listen. the threat isil presents to the united states is different in kind and type and degree than al qaeda. isil is not your parents al qaeda. it s a very different model. and by virtue of that model it s currently the threat we re worrying about in the homeland most of all. the biggest threat in the homeland. let s talk about this now via skype from irvine california. cnn intelligence and security analyst and former cia operative bob bair and from new york former fbi special agent and former navy s.e.a.l. jonathan gillian. gentlemen, thanks so much pour
being here. bob, is the fbi director right? is isis a greater threat to the u.s. than al qaeda? yes, absolutely jake. i ve been talking to the fbi field agents that are out there working this problem, and this is what scares them most is people inspired by the islamic state, lonewolves the guy in chattanooga, and these people have learned recently to stay off the phones stay off the internet. they ve been reading snowden. they know they re vulnerable. i totally agree with him. these guys are a real threat. what do you mean bob, they re reading snowden? just the idea that cell phones are being monitored? it s a reminder that algorithms can tie numbers together that we re on social media, the fbi is. they re on twitter. they re watching these people. they re watching for people buying tickets to syria, for instance. at that point the fbi can arrest