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Inner city community. >> in terms of this check point. we were at a police substation. they have a different mission. they're static. they're there. they're a resource to the community. you're here to stop traffic and check it. what are you looking for? how do you know if a person you're stopping is trouble? >> you never know. there's indicators. you try to look for multiple military age males or a vehicle weighed down or a vehicle acting erratically. immediate indicators to trigger you to stop them and search them. beyond that it's not no set a pattern. every blue truck or every red motorcycl...

Forgive me. it sounds like we're talking about details of the local police operation. ultimately this is the success of the war. >> partnership. >> you guys come in here and you do what the military of america is capable of doing, unparallel to anywhere in the world. you work with well trained national afghan security. we train them into policing good behavior. then we hope to enable and facilitate that the afghan police will be doing this job after we leave. >> absolutely. >> that's the success of the war? >> i think so. the most we can hope for at least as a company or as a platoon at a chec...

>> this is the main road that cuts from southwest kandahar city all the way up to highway 1, dead center of kandahar city. they are two regions where there's been a lot of fighting and insurgency. so what's the mission of this check point and of the other three check points that you lead? >> so, it's in my area of operations here in sub district 7, each check point is strategically placed on a main route in and out of the city with a purpose of interdicting or disrupting the freedom of movement of the insurgents coming into kandahar city or going out. that way we can be the outer gate. if they...

By afghans only, amp only and this working? >> ten months ago, i would have said absolutely not. working with a and a and amp, to see the progression they made is incredible. >> through training? >> through training. they are reluctant without our technology and weaponry. by the time we left, they would go out without us and tell us about it later. they don't -- they needed the confidence boost to go out independently. we were able to accomplish that. i don't think it will be different here. >> again, the point of a check point like this is that the locals here choose to lie with the legitimat...

Anything's happened to you guys it's hurting us either. >> will the check point cut down on suicide bombers or only attract them? [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: the check point can prevent the suicide bomber, behe says sometimes they are on the side of the road. they can come over there and blast over there. >> is the taliban very strong here? what is the taliban like? >> translator: there is no taliban, but sometimes the suicide bomber comes here. explosives and everything. there's no taliban. >> keep in mind, this guy is on the border of kandahar city. he says no taliban here.