the food chain, somebody with less experience and maybe somebody, well, they may have trouble filling the job because as you point out it seems to be magnet for missiles? well, that s right. now recall the al qaeda network in iraq and to some extent the network in afghanistan began to fall apart when the senior leadership was taken down and they had to start looking towards less-qualified, less-mature, less-connected middle management if you will. we may be seeing that in the core leadership that resides in pakistan. only time will tell with you one capture and one kill in two weeks is certainly good news. jon: chalk a couple good ones up for the united states. general scales, good to have you on. thank you. thank you, jon. jenna: back to some politics now. one of the big questions for 2012, what will the tea party s ultimate effect be? our next guest says while the tea party s enthusiasm and energy is something the republicans desperately need the unruly nature and
this report that was out earlier this morning. of course, this is very key as we ve seen the fighting on the border between pakistan and afghanistan intensify, and also to know that there are, well, as we heard from our very own dominic di-natale this week, we ve been talking about the attacks happening inside the capital of afghanistan in this kabul and wondering if there s a connection to groups in pakistan. there was a question of whether or not it was al-qaeda or the haqqani network or something else. again, we hear this week another blow at the core of al-qaeda in pakistan, the chief of the operations there killed. catherine will have more reporting on this throughout the day here on fox news. jon: well [laughter] jenna: what a transition. you want to go for it? let s just do it. jon: sponge bob duke it out. take a look at this video courtesy of tmz. [inaudible conversations]
general robert scales. general scales, this guy was the chief of operations in pakistan in terms of a terrorist organization. what does that mean? what it means, jon, this guy was sort of the number three guy in the al qaeda core network in pakistan and his principle portfolio included targeting americans in both the tribal regions and in afghanistan to some extent in pakistan. so being number three in al qaeda recently is not a long-term hire. the last three or four months the cia in particular has been doing a good job of either killing or capturing this core leadership and it may also, jon, suggest a thaw between the cia and u.s. military and pakistani military recently because the cycle time detecting killing and capturing the al qaeda core leadership has certainly gotten smaller over last few weeks that could be good news.
jon: i wonner about pakistan because as you know some people call them our frenemy they always seem to get upset when we take the military operations on in their territory. i was going to ask if this will bring more recriminations in that country. i think just the opposite, jon. the pakistani military is hot and cold. you might recall this guy, moritani, who was another al qaeda leader captured over the labor day weekend. this is another suggestion that the brad blood between the cia and the pakistani military may be getting better. who knows for sure but two high-level captures and killings over the last two weeks shows that the al qaeda core network is beginning to, is beginning to fall apart, jon. jon: right. so as al qaeda looks for somebody to replace this guy, they re going to have to go to somebody farther down in
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