before this. but actually, the decision by secretary clinton was to allow them to shutter the embassy and the rest of the staff got out we re told in a convoy over land to jordan. now, the reason the u.s. is doing this, they say, is that the government has refused the syrian government has refused to address its security concerns. and what were they? well, the embassy in damascus is located right off on a very busy street. and the u.s. says there was concern after some car bombs last month that perhaps there could be the embassy could be a target of al qaeda. that bombing, by the way, was linked to al qaeda. so they decided to do this. but obviously there was a lot of concern about whether they could get out. so that staff includes as i said the remaining staff, 17 people, plus the ambassador are now out. kyra? and sort of a bit of a coins d dense here? this is right after syria and russia blocked the resolution calling for president assad to be removed from office. t
tight in both cities. joining us now k.t. mcfarland, fox news security analyst, host of fox news live. how serious is this? you have to act as if it s very serious. but there are three parts to it. it s a specific threat. in other words, we know three guys, car bomb, new york, washington. it s from a reliable and credible source. somebody who has been square with us in the past. but it s unconfirmed. but you have to track it down as if it s serious. i look back and say well, you know, al-qaeda has to do something right now. because for ten years, we really haven t heard from them. they haven t had a big splash attack since madrid. this is really their last opportunity to show they re relevant. al-qaeda has changed. gregg: that was my question. is al-qaeda irrelevant? think of it as al-qaeda is 1.0 al-qaeda is bin laden. he is dead, right? a lot of his deputies are dead. when i was in afghanistan,
the fbi have asked bonnie & clyde to surrender n should they have waited for john killinger to get his gun ready? this is not hollywood, it is the real world. if a soldier already at risk wok have ricksed himself further then he wasn t trained right. you want to read more on this, we have a lot of mail. go to my blog. cnn.com/caffertyfile. don t go too far away. we will be right back to you. americans are weighing in. is bin laden in h le ll? yo hell? are what they tell us about the raid that killed him.
bill o reilly asked the president if this is a new tactic and if this tactic is worth considering. we will defeat al-qaida and the taliban will not be retaking afghanistan. the taliban are still going to be an element in afghanistan. but what we ve said to them and what we ll say to, i think everybody in the region is as long as you respect the afghan constitution, as long as you lay down arms and are not involved in a violent overthrow of the government, then those of you who want to participate in the political process, you should. right. and in other words, if we pretend we re not the taliban, then you can be the taliban. are we making the wrong move there not dealing them out? michael scheuer joins us right now, former head of the bin laden unit and author of this brand new book go get it, the biography of bin laden as michael knows it from his years of studying him. the taliban, should we talking
from frederick douglas who said truth is our armor. hushed be the sword and we draw all of our equipments from above. that s true for 99.9% of the tea party. you have a lot of quotes today. mike, tom, and michael, thank you so much for the radio rumble. have good shows today. thank you guys. thank you. steve, brian? very nice. all right, straight ahead, new information shows that to win the war in afghanistan, we have to stop fighting the taliban and join the taliban, really? the guy who has been chasing bin laden for decades with the big warning to this next. yeah, michael scheuer is here and then victoria s secret model no secret to the air brush. didn t anyone double check this one? something s missing. uh-oh! wow. where to go for a quiet get away.