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In the last year or so and the pakistani government and military basically realize they created a frankenstein monster thats begun to attack them and willing to not only move against the pakistani taliban but with this news tonight against the afghans, so-called afghan taliban which is in fact headquartered in pakistan. >> robin, what do you make of this? lets talk about whats going on in marja. everyone said marja is going to be the big battle. what basically they were planning to do is go in a...

"the new york times" agreed to that because they didnt want operational intelligence they may get from this guy to be blown by this story getting out. >> clearly, this guy as robin points out, he is not going to know the taliban is a decentralized group. the one thats doing the operation in marja, the one thats in helmand, the one in kandahar in the south is run by essentially mullah omar and this guy. so certainly in terms of the information about the southern afghanistan operations of the tali...

Theyre worried many if not all of these bridges have been boobytrapped or mined. theyre having to build their own bridges to cross all of thesae canals. theyre taking great pains to avoid civilian casualties. when they encounter a lot of rocket fire or gunfire they can call in helicopter gunships to help them out, but they have to use this sparingly. they dont want to alienate the local population with some ev overwhelming force. the third thing here, as always in situations like this, anderson,...

Pakistan, itself. >> indeed. its a good news/bad news story. the bad news is the guys have been in pakistan all along. the good news is the politics are shifting around this issue in the last year or so and the pakistani government and military basically realize they created a frankenstein monster thats begun to attack them and willing to not only move against the pakistani taliban but with this news tonight against the afghans, so-called afghan taliban which is in fact headquartered in pakistan...

Would be a big influence. the taliban have turned marja into a giant boobytrap. the very latest now from tom foreman at the war map. >> anderson, as we speak tonight, the battlefield remains very fluid out here. im going to fly into the area, basically wa we know about it is this. we fly into marja and take a look at this community of about 80,000 people. american troops and allies including, of course, afghans, themselves, are making progress, but as they have swept into this area it has remain...

It was a no-go zone for the u.s. marines. the marines would hit the taliban in places and the taliban would retreat to marja. they basically had a lot of time to mass there and prepare their defenses, right? >> absolutely. this is like someone inviting you to fight in their neighborhood. its a difficult thing. lets move in and show you some of the areas here. this is not like urban areas where the buildings are packed together. theyre spread around in areas like this with a lot of farm fields in...

Challenges theyre facing here. one of them is right in this area. if we move in and take a look at a bridge going across part of one of the canals in town. many of these canals around, theyre worried many if not all of these bridges have been booby trapped or mined. theyre having to build their own bridges in many cases to cross all of these canals. there many of them. two, theyre taking great pains here to avoid too many civilian casualties. they know that can be a big deal. when they encounter...

Blown by this story getting out. >> clearly, this guy as robin points out, he is not going to know the taliban is a decentralized group. the one thats doing the operation in marja, the one thats in helmand, the one in kandahar in the south is run by essentially mullah omar and this guy. so certainly in terms of the information about the southern afghanistan operations of the taliban, this guy is a gold mine. hes not being read miranda rights by pakistani people who are interrogating him. >> one ...

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