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The "times" is reporting break through, tribal elders saying they're helping fight the taliban. that's significant. if it's true, the taliban -- it would be a big influence. the taliban have turned marja into a giant booby trap. the tribal elders may know where some of the bombs are buried. the very latest now from tom foreman at the war map. >> anderson, as we speak tonight, the battlefield remains very fluid out here. i'm going to fly into the area, basically what 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 ...

Recognize that you need something beyond just the physical elimination of your military opposition. you have to create an alternative economically for the people on the ground so that they support the national government. and so this is a beginning. this will be a very important test case to find out if the new u.s. strategy will work. >> and, peter, how tough are the rules of engagement? we've heard complaints from some marines about, look, you know, the idea here is protecting civilians. civilians are the goal here, not so much the town, itself, or any amount of land. it's protecting civilia...

And fight or dissolve away as they have many times in the past. the u.s. is making a lot of the fact this has become a key center of operations for the taliban. >> yes, this is a spot that matters. they're correct about that. they get opium money from there and base operations out of this town. i say a spot because there are others. we can't forget the bigger picture here. if we simply widen out and take a look at this, remember, this part of the country, helmand province, runs right down into pakistan here. you have to wonder how many of these fighters have moved out here. the taliban has pro...

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. i'm 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 remained a very dangerous place to be. here's what happened in the past few days of fighting. americans s...

If there's not even an arrest. you can get a very extensive background check. you can hire a private investigator to really look through everything in a person's life before they're hired. that's unusual. i wouldn't expect a university to do that. >> and her comments that they're still alive, is that just -- >> that shows me there may be some mental disorder here. >> or her wanting people to think there is. >> that's true. that's possible as well. we also know she went to a shooting range in the days before the shooting. does that show she was practicing, that she was intending to do this? tha...