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>> you have the -- you have the -- from what i understand, the case file. you know what the witnesses of that file say. and what they say in their videos. but i -- that's what it sounds like. >> reporter: to defend the client, mike waddington will try to prove the corporal already injured in two separate ied attacks was suffering from brain damage. and instead of treating him, waddington says the army drugged him. >> so your defense is that your client was mentally incapacitated, that the army either knew it or should have known it and not put in that position. >> the army knew it because they...

>> reporter: we have very little information coming from isap, international security assistance force. what they are saying is that two isaf service members left their compound in kabul city where they and their vehicle went missing. they said that they have sent out search vehicles to look for them but still have not been found. this coming on the same day that we are hearing that five u.s. service members were killed in southern afghanistan after two separate ied attacks. four were killed during one ied attack in the south and one in the other. again, this information is just coming in. we ...

Cnn's atia abawi joins us on the phone from kabul. what more can you tell us us? >> reporter: it's been a very rough day for the americans. nato confirming those two service members who are gone missing are americans, coming on the same day we're finding out that five americans were killed in southern afghanistan in two separate ied attacks. what we're hearing from nato is that these two service members left their compound in the capital of kabul friday afternoon. they went missing and right now a search is on to locate them. but they would not give any more information. what we're hearing fro...

As nato forces push into taliban strongholds in the south, eight americans have died in the last 24 hours. nbc's jim miklaszewski joins us from the pentagon. mick, tell us what happened. >> we're barely into the middle of -- as many as 33 americans have been killed so far this month, as you said, eight of them today. four of them in one of those deadly ied attacks. one soldier who died of wounds suffered in an earlier gun battle, but the most troubling of the incidents occurred during an attack on a police station in kandahar when a suicide bomber drove a car through the front gate, exploded h...

General stanley mcchrystal had decided some time ago he wanted to broadcast the news that this operation was unfolding, to say to the taliban it's inevitable, ear going to lose, you need to go away, we will provide security, we are going to take this area. whether that strategy works and what price we have with our young lives on the line, in terms of ied attacks, sniper attacks, that sort of thing, remains to be seen. >> clearly there's very much a prop ganta aspects to this mission? >> absolutely. they like to call it information operation, messages, they hope this pressure, this public pres...