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Also known as roadside bombs, ieds have claimed the lives of 65% of all u.s. casualties in both wars. >> the improvised bomb is the signature weapon of both the iraq and of the afghanistan war. it's the number one killer of soldiers. it's the number one weapon of insurgents. they're also as scary as hell. >> whoa! holy -- >> sometimes the difference between life and death is just seconds on a trigger. >> you just don't see it coming. you can have that gut feeling all day long but i don't know where it's coming from or who it's going to hit or who is going to push the button. >> january 11th, 2...

Conservatism and in order to beat the president, no longer cover political story the entire primary season is the fact the president's approval numbers, not skyrocketing up are on a very clear ascent. he hovered around 40% approval from july to december. he is up in the high 40s. he is not somebody who is going to have a cake walk to re-election but he is clearly in the range where he is starting to look a lot more like where george w. bush was in 2004, you know, as opposed to, you know, as opposed to being, you know, where george w. bush was in 2006/2007. i think plenty of time to be positive...

When i got there in 2007 through 2009, simply pulling the country back from the brink of civil war was considered victory. people get hung up on the troop surge and the number. a lot more was going into the surge in terms of the sunni awakening and in terms of the sawa. >> explain what those two things are. >> the sunni awakening happened in 2006/2007 in terms of getting some of the sunni sheikhs out in the province to realize we don't really like the americans here but they are better than al qaeda. >> and realize with large payments and putting them on the payroll. >> that's related to the s...

Brought to justice. >> i'm going to be joined now by one of the victims, rebekah havrilla. rebekah, tell me what happened to you. >> i was in the army from 2004 to 2008, and i deployed in 2006/2007. and while i was in afghanistan, i was subjected to a lot of harassment and assault from my team leader on an almost daily basis, and right before i left to come back to the united states, one of the guys i worked with raped me right before we came back. >> this is a horrific incident. tell me about the buildup to what happened to you, because clearly if you have seen movies like "g.i. jane," and th...

I'm in a political fix in the elections. >> shannon: this summer and in the last few months we have seen a spike in violence in iraq. any danger that the situation spins out of control? >> there is a danger of that. they understood it would be possible. march # election to form unity government has come and gone and there is no unity government. there won't be one for a month or longer. some fear the longer the political vacuum exists the more violence may step in. the violence reduced from 2006/2007 and not in any way shape or form appearing to create the sectarian divisions that could inhibi...