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You this is your second or third or your fourth are tour of duty. ill tell you right now, the same thing that i said at west point last december. if i thought for a minute that americas vital interests were not served, were not at attack here in afghanistan, i would order all of you home right away. so i want you to know, i want every american serving in afghanistan military and civilian to know whether youre working the flight line here at bagram or patrolling a village down in helmand. whether...

I try to stay focused on them and not on what the political atmosphere is. >> well, on sunday, these marines will move to a forward operating base out here in the desert next to a mock afghan village where they will mingle with afghani actors as part of the training process before they deploy to afghanistan in the next few weeks. shepard? >> shepard: rick leventhal and his skully live at 29 -- twenty-nine palms. >> what goes into texas textbooks could effect much of the nation. you should have h...

Pushing the taliban away, at the same time its not going as fast as many in nato would have hoped for. >> atia, not going as fast but they are making a bit of a foothold. last how were hour you were telling us about how the u.s. marines set up a forward operating base in marjah? >> reporter: exactly. right now im actually standing on the ground where the u.s. marines are right now building a forward operating base to show that their presence will linger in the city of marjah. this is a symbol to...

Now, i am told that rescue occurred peacefully, without incident. and once he was in the helicopter, once he realized what was happening, craig, i am told that he became very emotional and actually break down. right now he is being held at a forward operating base in afghanistan. hell then go to bagram airfield and start making his way back to the u.s. so that is what the next several days are going to look like for sergeant bergdahl. were getting some background information at this hour, craig,...

Worried about the situation with al qaeda. has it gotten better, worse? >> it has got worse, maybe more who sympathize with al qaeda. >> martha raddatz, abc news. also in the region, defense secretary gates is on a farewell tour of afghanistan. it was a rare sight when the pentagon chief got choked up with tears as he talked to soldiers at a forward operating base in kandahar. he wanted to say thanks for the service and sacrifice made by the men and women of the military. diane sawyer is on th...

You see, red arrows across the board. the dow jones down by 215 points. its only 11:00 a.m. its a reaction to what we have seen overseas and many market analysts did expect this. im thomas roberts. great to have you with me. japanese officials did raise the death toll to more than 2,700 people today but thousands more are still missing and boys continue to wash ashore. 400,000 people are homeless battling cold and windy conditions. nbcs ian williams is innia ma ga ta with the latest on the rescu...

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Theyre unable to bring security. we cant -- when i was embedded with the marines, we couldnt take roads with vehicles. we couldnt even walk on foot paths because of all of the ieds and roadside bombs. we walked through the middle of the fields, and once you got between one and three kilometers outside of the radius of a forward operating base, we came under fire. people were taking contact every day. thats on the military side. the political side is even worse. the -- general mcchrystal talked -...

Baghdad, with the latest. hi, david. >> reporter: hi, jamie. yes, the environment has been celebrating the fourth of july with the troops, as he said today and perhaps, the major reason hes here, at this time is because of his political deadlock, at the height of iraqi politics, and i believe at this moment, he is holding meetings, with ayad alawi, the main challenger to the incumbent prime minister and at this time, it really is crucial that they sort out the problems here, and create a new gov...

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