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Taliban terror attacks. a suicide bomber targeted a checkpoint today. an attack on a military base friday claimed the life of a u.s. service members. peter bergen and phil mudd. when you see this surge in violence how much has to do with the announcement of the death of mullah omar? >> a great deal. he was the one thing holding the tall pan together. he had purportedly backed the peace process. in fact, he was dead at the time, but people speaking in his name backed the peace process. mullah man...

Theyre saying that the most secure place for foreign journalists might actually be, oddly enough, tahrir square, since thats where most of them are concentrated, and so theres some safety in numbers. if you are out in the suburbs, though, which is where i am right now, then theres not a whole lot of people watching you. so anything could happen. >> brian, you arrived at a checkpoint today where things got scary very fast. tell us what happened there. >> sure. well, you know, ive only been here a...

Actually. theyre saying that the most secure place for foreign journalists might actually be, oddly enough, tahrir square, since thats where most of them are concentrated, and so theres some safety in numbers. if you are out in the suburbs, though, which is where i am right now, then theres not a whole lot of people watching you. so anything could happen. >> brian, you arrived at a checkpoint today where things got scary very fast. tell us what happened there. >> sure. well, you know, ive only b...

Journalists might actually be, oddly enough, tahrir square, since thats where most of them are concentrated, and so theres some safety in numbers. if you are out in the suburbs, though, which is where i am right now, then theres not a whole lot of people watching you. so anything could happen. >> brian, you arrived at a checkpoint today where things got scary very fast. tell us what happened there. >> sure. well, you know, ive only been here a few days, and in that time weve been through dozens ...