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They are the embodiment of evil. and when you -- you know, there are other afghans like afghan special operations forces with no legs, whose legs were bone off in combat. the one guy that i spoke to, his life was on the run, and he is there waiting for these execution squads. and you have afghan in lockdown right now, the borders are being sealed, the entire country is being turned into a killing zone. in the united states is not doing anything to persuade the neighboring countries to open those borders. they are letting the taliban shut them down on their side and being systematically hunted....

It was ready to go. >> already the doctors have been able to use the most sophisticated medical models. here in surgery the boys are strapped to yet another device, a rotating operating table created specifically for this procedure, allowing doctors unprecedented access. >> what it allowed us to do was to say, okay, let's rotate. without physically lifting the children, without being concerned that one child was going to rotate more than the other. >> in addition, the custom-made table will split in two when the twins are separated, allowing a team of doctors to work on each boy. first, surgeo...

Operation that took place just about an hour or so after being shot. it's something that was developed on the battlefields and it's something that i do all the time at my other job. now the operation congresswoman giffords had done is a pretty commonly performed one by neurosurgeons. it's called a craniectomy, specifically a hemi craniectomy where you're removing almost half the skull on one side of the brain here. the reason you want to do this is to decrease the swelling from that primary injury. what we heard about congresswoman giffords, she had a bullet wound that entered the front over h...

Here to actually connect the dots between the various holes. the goal is to try to get the bone off, again, while minimizing damage to the brain underneath, and take that bone off as quickly as possible. now, with the brain, unlike other organs in the body, it has no place to swell if it is injured. the only place is down here, and that's what is called a herniation, and that is what can be devastating neurologically and can even lead to death. this bone gets stored and save and put in the refrigerator to put back in at a later time. congresswoman giffords will have the skin closed at that tim...

Be done and no more planning. it was ready to go. >> already the doctors have been able to use the most sophisticated medical models. here in surgery the boys are strapped to yet another device, a rotating operating table created specifically for this procedure, allowing doctors unprecedented access. >> what it allowed us to do was to say, okay, let's rotate. without physically lifting the children, without being concerned that one child was going to rotate more than the other. >> in addition, the custom-made table will split in two when the twins are separated, allowing a team of doctors to w...