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They are the embodiment of evil. and when you -- you know, there are other afghans like afghan special operations forces with no legs, whose legs were bone off in combat. the one guy that i spoke to, his life was on the run, and he is there waiting for these execution squads. and you have afghan in lockdown right now, the borders are being sealed, the entire country is being turned into a killing zone. in the united states is not doing anything to persuade the neighboring countries to open those...

It was ready to go. >> already the doctors have been able to use the most sophisticated medical models. here in surgery the boys are strapped to yet another device, a rotating operating table created specifically for this procedure, allowing doctors unprecedented access. >> what it allowed us to do was to say, okay, lets rotate. without physically lifting the children, without being concerned that one child was going to rotate more than the other. >> in addition, the custom-made table will split...

Operation that took place just about an hour or so after being shot. its something that was developed on the battlefields and its something that i do all the time at my other job. now the operation congresswoman giffords had done is a pretty commonly performed one by neurosurgeons. its called a craniectomy, specifically a hemi craniectomy where youre removing almost half the skull on one side of the brain here. the reason you want to do this is to decrease the swelling from that primary injury. ...

Here to actually connect the dots between the various holes. the goal is to try to get the bone off, again, while minimizing damage to the brain underneath, and take that bone off as quickly as possible. now, with the brain, unlike other organs in the body, it has no place to swell if it is injured. the only place is down here, and thats what is called a herniation, and that is what can be devastating neurologically and can even lead to death. this bone gets stored and save and put in the refrig...

Be done and no more planning. it was ready to go. >> already the doctors have been able to use the most sophisticated medical models. here in surgery the boys are strapped to yet another device, a rotating operating table created specifically for this procedure, allowing doctors unprecedented access. >> what it allowed us to do was to say, okay, lets rotate. without physically lifting the children, without being concerned that one child was going to rotate more than the other. >> in addition, th...

Around my fingers as i tried to get to the parking lot. >> shepard: did you realize what happened? >> well, it happened so quickly, it was like surrealistic. it just -- bang, it was there and done. just wouldnt have expected anything like that in the cherry creek mall but it happened. >> shepard: its my understanding -- makes my skin crawl thinking about it. but the -- it pulled everything outside the bone off, right? >> yeah. when i started to chase after him and that i saw the blood on the flo...

Bone off, again, while minimizing damage to the brain underneath and take that bone off as quickly as possible. now, with the brain, unlike other organs in the body, it really has no place to swell if it gets injured. the only place is really down here whats called a herniation and thats what can be za zafting devastating neurologi l neurologically, can even lead to death. this bone gets stored, gets saved, put in the refrigerator to be put back in at a later time. congresswoman giffords will ha...