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Message which can also mean diplomacy. superdescribing recent rolling stone articles that look at the pr essence of mr. beals position basically with seal team six. tell us about that and any responses you have. >> we did a very troubling story on a group of soldiers that called themselves the kill team, u.s. soldiers in afghanistan who went out and systematically hunted down afghan civilians, killed them and then mutilated their bodies taking body parts atrophy if is, in one case the first vict...

becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. immediately. the second thing we are here to ask is for the government in kartum to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children. >> i want to bring in a thethen jones. if you can hear me, heres my question. we know he was talking to the president, trying to bring attention to the atrocities in sudan, but why specifically was he arrested? >> reporter: he was arrested for the charges, disorderly cross ag police line. ...

>> and let me ask you. how does this add to the earlier horrific events of the kill team, the people peeing on the bodies of the taliban dead, the burning of the koran, how does it add up? >> reporter: its not going to be good. i can tell you that right now. the afghan people are very upset. this is has been one incident after another incident. although they have been rare, its made the media here in afghanistan and throughout the world, for that matter, when they see this happening from u.s. mi...

Not that it wasnt a worthy mission, but its doability in the context of the horrible setbacks. we have the people urinating on the dead taliban. you have the kill team. you have the koran burning. now we have had this. can we still win the minds and hearts as in-country allies of the government? >> that may be too ambitious, chris. im not going to claim we can do that. i would point out the iraqis were much angrier with us. they still put us in the 50% favorability range. thats not nearly what i...

Rainier so it has been a very troubled base. the striker brigade. that kill team was a serious incidents. but this will complicate matters in terms of negotiate aggrastat us much forces agreement that will protect u.s. troops after forces begin to pull out in 2014. but if you look back at sentences given in the highest scandals in the last 10 years of war, the sentences by military courts have been shockingly small and reduced. look at abu ghraib. lynndie england received three years in prison. ...

Rather than just even at one individual. >> and let me ask you about how does this add to the earlier horrific events of the kill team, the people peeing on the bodies of those taliban dead, the burning of the koran? how does it add up? >> reporter: its not going to be good. i can tell you that right now. the afghan people are very upset. this has been one incident after another incident. although they have been rare, it has made the media. it made the media here in afghanistan and throughout th...

Doable. >> and thats my question. not that it wasnt a worthy mission, but its doability in the context of these horrible setbacks morally. we have the people urinating on those dead taliban. you have the kill team. you have the koran burning, and now you have this. can we still win the minds and hearts as in country allies of the government? >> that may be too ambitious, chris. and im not going to claim we can do that. i would point out the iraqis are much more angry with us, and we rated much m...

>> thats my question. not that it wasnt a worthy mission, but its do blt in the context of the horrible setbacks. we have the people urinating on the dead taliban. you have the kill team. you have the koran burning. now we have had this. can we still win the minds and hearts as in-country allies of the government? >> that may be too ambitious, chris. im not going to claim we can do that. i would point out the iraqis were much angrier with us. they still put us in the 50% favorability range. that...

Than just one individual. >> and let me ask you. how does this add to the earlier horrific events of the kill team, the people bee pooeing on the bodies of the taliban dead, the burning of the koran, how does it add up? >> reporter: its not going to be good. i can tell you that right now. the afghan people are very upset. this is has been one incident after another incident. although they have been rare, its made the media here in afghanistan and throughout the world, for that matter, when they ...

Dozen years over there fighting our wars, gets up one day and heads around door to door killing people, including nine little kids, killing 16 people in cold blood, and then burning them. is this this wars milai? is the combination of all wars, guys at the front for too long then sent back too many times for too many years all the time away from home? these are different kinds of wars. its not heading for berlin in tanks, island hopping our way to the japanese home islands, or turning back invad...