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Insider attacks lately. the joint combat patrols, of course, are a critical part of the u.s. plan to withdraw from afghanistan by the end of 2014. is this a bad, an ominous sign? >> i do think its extremely troubling. this is difficult for operational commanders on the ground and for our strategy. weve invested a great deal in training afghan police and afghan troops in partnering and in working closely together and in the vast majority of instances, thats gone well, there have been strong hando...

As you mentioned, there was a suicide blast in the capital kabul outside of the airport on airport road. it seemed to target a minibus carrying foreigners, primarily south africans. we dont know the nationalities of the rest killed in the attack. there were five south africans. a group, insurgent group in afghanistan took responsibility saying this was to avenge the anti-islamic film that caused outrage in the majority of the muslim world. the taliban, a different group also using that video, th...

Spite our face in this circumstance. but we need to press him to act like a government, the government that hes become. hes no longer the leader of a religious opposition. hes now the head of the largest state in the arab world. hes got to grow up, act like a man and do the the president is forcing him to do. we have every right to be upset, but we have to limit that. get mad but not that mad. >> at the same time in afghanistan where our troops are at risk, you have these insider attacks. again,...

Sense of frustration here at pentagon over this most recent round of insider attacks. the most recent of them, rather, a round of three of them in the past three days. on friday, what was thought to be the most secure installations in all of afghanistan, 15 insurgents wearing army uniforms killed two marines, wounded nine other people and destroyed six very expensive carrier fighter jets. on saturday, a gunman with an afghanistan government uniform killed two british soldiers in the southwest pa...

Young boys, eight, nine, 10 years old and teenage boys. this didnt seem like a mass protest but something whipped up to create anti-american anger here in afghanistan. bill: four americans were killed in what is considered an insider attack. what is the level of concern about this, conor is it. >> reporter: not only four americans but two british soldiers were killed. this is the biggest problem facing the u.s. military in large part because building up the afghan security forces is first priori...

Wait a couple hours before they released a statement? >> i am sorry but romney -- >> obama said it as well. >> obama was the president he wanted to do a fundraiser when we were at war. our good ambassadors brothers got murdered. >> what romney said was a lie. it was an inaccurate lie. >> always a pleasure. thank you so much for being with us this evening. >> a member of the house intelligence committee she believe he was that close to nuclear capability. deadly insider attacks in afghanistan kil...

>>shepard: i am shepard smith. this is "studio b" at the bottom of the tour, time for the top of the news. defense secretary panetta says the pentagon expects the anti-american demonstrations across the middle east and north africa will last several days, if not longer. the military has deployed teams of elite marines to protect the embassies in libya and yemen. the navy moved two warships to positions off the coast of libya armed with missiles. yemen said they arrested 13 suspects, which is hom...

Wait a couple hours before they released a statement? >> i am sorry but romney -- >> obama said it as well. >> obama was the president he wanted to do a fundraiser when we were at war. our good ambassadors brothers got murdered. >> what romney said was a lie. it was an inaccurate lie. >> always a pleasure. thank you so much for being with us this evening. >> a member of the house intelligence committee she believe he was that close to nuclear capability. deadly insider attacks in afghanistan kil...

Third quarter, ben roethlisberger buys a little time, back shoulder to mike wallace, 37 yards. steelers dominate the jets, 27-10. mark sanchez comes down from his good week one performance, went 10 of 27 for 138 yards in pittsburgh. coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," protests in the streets of afghanistan. a vicious round of insider attacks there on u.s. and nato troops. well have the latest at the top of the hour. and when we come back here, well huddle around the water cool...

Civilians than the u.s. military does. when the u.s. military does it, they are held to a much higher standard by the afghan government. the other big problem facing the u.s. military here are insider attacks over the weekend. six u.s. and british troops were killed. two british troops on saturday, four american soldiers on sunday were killed. insider attacks continue to wreak havoc on the overall mission here. now getting word that the u.s. military are limiting joint operations with afghan and...