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Vehicle. irving, texas, police call the move gutsy. they said it likely saved lives. the wrong-way driver was arrested and jailed on suspicion of dwi. the pentagon this morning denying reports that the u.s. commander in afghanistan, general david petraeus, is quitting. they're also pushing back on reports he'll be rotated out of the post by the end of the year, saying he is not leaving "anytime soon." meantime, this is a glimpse of the massive operation undertaken in marjah last year. hbo is about to debut a documentary on the u.s. marines' battle to liberate that key afghanistan town from...

And ruined nearly 2 million acres of crops. apparently that's not enough to stop the taliban. pakistani police today report militants killed two members of a antitaliban militia in the northwest. fueling fears the taliban is exploiting the crisis. the "fox report"'s jonathan hunt with the latest from the newsroom in new york. >> dozens of taliban militants were involved in a series of attacks on police post ins northern pakistan near the afghan border. pakistani officials killed several militants in those fire fights and there were no police casualties but the u.s. embassador to pakistan is am...

100,000 u.s. troops, mostly in the south. that's three times more than just a year ago. more troops, more casualties. it's compelling math. the other reason is that u.s. and nato forces unfllike in previous offenses, they're going for the jugular this time. they're going for the key staging areas, whether it's kandahar or zari, these are places where the taliban are staging, where they're xle collecting intelligence. they're not going to give the places up easily. that means huge resistance and more casualties as well. >> jim, i know you were just embedded for a few days. certainly you came ac...

Military information that put our soldiers at risk, our coalition allies at risk puts our mission at risk, outrage is the only word that can descrikc my emotions. >> many are field reports filed between 2004 and 2009, reports used by commanders to track enemy techniques and strategies in thousands of fire fights, roadside bombings and attacks over the years. >> their names, their operations, there's logistics. their sources. all of that information out in a public way has the potential to do harm. >> reporter: some sensitive new details are details are revealed. one example, the military has s...

There. there was numerous rockets. until someone has come out here and seen this terrain and been in some of these tight fire fights, you will never understand what these shoulders are trying to express. >> reporter: it was clear then the base was vurnlnerable, but r worse was to come. only now the details of how bad coming clear. according to the new york time, one of the 92,000 documents, details a taliban attack here two years later as the base was being closed, because it was undermanned and ineffective. cnn has not independently confirmed the awe thuthenticity the documents, but according...