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Me, 80% of the people in this area have already left. and at this time, the deadline to leave ends in 35 minutes. on the drive into gaza city, empty streets and rubble from the israeli air strikes. by taxi or mostly by foot, the people fleeing the north are heading to united nations schools, more than 1,000 in this school alone. food has yet to be provided. the only source of sustenance, a water tanker. she and her family of 15 fled their home at 2:00 in the morning. we told the kids, get up, get up, she tells me. we walked all the way here. this baby needs milk, but we don't have any. we have...

The troops have to launch small mortars nearly straight up. practically firing on top of themselves. ammunition is running low. and it's worse than anyone first thought. as the battle rages, the soldiers find two more americans, both severely wounded. under fire, the soldiers load the injured men on to stretchers. and carry them off the roof. with so many men hurt, loftus moves in. he takes up a machine gun and lays down suppressive fire. after 30 minutes, the fighting stops. a medevac helicopter ferries away the wounded. the americans have won the day. but why? for nearly a decade, there have...

Already one soldier has been severely injured. the injured soldier is down, out of the fight. but other soldiers on the roof keep fighting, even though several of them are also injured and dazed. twenty taliban fighters are so close the troops have to launch small mortars nearly straight up, practically firing on top of themselves. ammunition is running low, and it's worse than anyone first thought. as the battle rages, the soldiers find two more americans both severely wounded. under fire, the soldiers load the injured men onto stretchers and carry them off the roof. with so many men hurt, lo...

Them as a counter force against what they see will be the indian encroachment in afghanistan. so they see the afghan taliban as perhaps carving out a sphere of influence in southern and eastern afghanistan, when the fighting stops, and afghanistan is carved up or the end of the war comes and there is some kind of solution. pakistan wants to have its influence in afghanistan, and it will be probably with the afghan taliban and the harkani network, which is mentioned a lot in the reports we published this morning. >> yeah, i'm curious, again, if you're opening your news account of this story on ...

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