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And the u.s. government. for karzai to not just appear to be a leader but to actually be the leader of a functioning, independent, sovereign government on its way to being a country that can operate independent of the u.s. once combat troops are withdrawn at the end of 2014. now, they smoothed over some thorny issues here. one having to do with the transfer of bagram prison which the u.s. had run with 4,000 detainees to afghan control, complete afghan control with consultation with the u.s. to make sure high-value, high-risk detainees aren't involved in prisoner exchanges or simply released. a...

Looking to the election to see if it can indicate in some way the destiny of ban afghanistan as a country. that is something we'll be watching very closely. want to connect a couple other dots if we could, general keane. the prisoners in bagram prison are being released under the control of the afghan government. we're also getting word that the afghan government led by karzai is going to be making some sort of a visit to qatar where there could potentially be a office open for the taliban where negotiations might take place with the taliban and the future of the country. why? why is that happ...

>> afghanistan's bagram airfield coming under attack by militants firing mortars and rockets. nato says three members of the afghan national security forces were killed and a nato helicopter was destroyed. this comes days after they gave over control to the bagram prison and 3,000 inmates. >> the moment wade page began firing on police during last month's temple shooting in wisconsin. >> the gunman shot lieutenant brian murphy a total of 15 times amazingly murphy survived. page was hit by another officer's bullet in the stomach. he killed 6 people and wounded 4 others before taking his own lif...

That houses thousands of terror suspects and reported members of the tall taliban to afghan government. that is not without controversy. jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. why should we be concerned that this transfer of power happened and hundreds of those folks are now not under our supervision? >> reporter: well, jenna, there are a lot of in the military who are concerned. in fact this morning defense secretary leon panetta placed a call to afghan president hamid karzai to discuss the transfer. the transfer as you mentioned did happen. there was a ceremony at bagram, at the bagram pri...

High-ranking al qaeda operatives managed to sneak out of the prison in 2005. one of whom ended up becoming al qaeda's number three, almost exclusively because of the fact because he became famous baz he escaped from bagram prison. this is a prison where there's a history of escapes, there's a problem with the afghan government securing prisons in general. can we really rely on them? i'm not sure we really can. >> there was a report today out of yemen that key al qaeda leaders were killed there. you and i have talked a lot about al qaeda and yemen and other parts of africa. so many talk about a...