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It's what the military in afghanistan calls enemy initiated attacks. all the years of all fights in afghanistan all have that general sort of pattern where it peaks in the summer and drops in the winter. that's what they call the fighting season in afghanistan. looking at that, see what the overall level was. that was the first calendar year president obama was president. after looking at those numbers he decided to do the surge. that's the level of violence he was looking at when he sent more troops at the end of that year. now, three years later after the surge has ended, this is the level o...

Of that blood and treasure and sacrifice, we have a new level which is higher than when we started. so that's for enemy-initiated attacks. here's the same number for executed ied attacks. so bombs in afghanistan, right? here was the rather outrageously high numbers of bombs in afghanistan in 2009 when president obama was making his decision about the surge. these are ieds. here's the level now. here's what we went through during the surge years. the interim years. that's 2010 and 2011. so, you know, it's possible to spin this as, oh, look, 2012 is slightly better than last year, looks like it ...

That includes a spike in the use of improviseed explosive device. this comes as some in congress complain the pentagon is withholding software this could protect our troops from ied attacks. mike emmanuel has that story. >> with improvised explosive devices, the single greatest threat to the u.s. military and its mission in afghanistan, technology to detect the danger has become a critical tool. research shows software has improved the successful clearing of ied's by 12% and now a member of the house armed services committee is asking for a congressional investigation into why the army has res...

i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight we have breaking news. a surge of the day. stocks just jumped to the moon. dow and s&p had their single best day for the entire year. the dow jumps 287 points. so you can say why, the sheer excitement. the ebulliance. have we suddenly solved all of our economic problems? have we stumbled upon a machine gun of silver bullets? have we found our terminator? not so fast, arnold. today we got shot up with rubber bullets. it was an arsenal of talk but no concrete action. in europe, the central bank chief said officials stand ready to act and there were re...

best day for the entire year. the dow jumps 287 points. so you can say why, the sheer excitement. the ebulliance. have we suddenly solved all of our economic problems? have we stumbled upon a machine gun of silver bullets? have we found our terminator? not so fast, arnold. today we got shot up with rubber bullets. it was an arsenal of talk but no concrete action. in europe, the central bank chief said officials stand ready to act and there were reports of talks of a possible deal to bail out banks in countries in crisis like spain. that's a lot of talk. being ready to stand by is dif...