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Troops killed in afghanistan so far this year were victims of ied's, that's among the reasons why the house oversight committee is likely to open an investigation in a matter of days. and in washington, mike emanuel, fox news. >> well, does the u.s. have a new golden boy in the pool? well, if it does, his name might be ryan lochte, he's turning heads and winning medals and this is brutal. scandalous, one of our nation's soccer superstars leveled. what happened? pete of fox sports.com is getting micced up. stay with us. humans. we mean well, but we're imperfect creatures living in a beautifully...

Police officers as they slept in their beds. a lot of troops being killed and wounded are doing the things we imagine them to be doing when they are in most danger, out on patrol and frontier fire bases, dealing with the dangers of ied's, confronting enemy fighters. but at this point something like one in five nato fatalities in afghanistan this year, one in five are at the hands of what is supposed to be our own side. the afghan forces that we are arming and training as the core justification for our continued presence in the country. nobody was under the illusion there were not horrible cost...

Al-maliki, but geraldo was in kuwait for the end of the iraq war and he reflected on all the sacrifice. >> geraldo: after all these long years, after all this cost, this blood and treasure at that we have shed in this desert, it is really been such a pleasure and an honor, it's less a sentiment of victory, greg than a sense i think of relief. the young troopers i was with in the armored m-wrap, those cumbersome vehicles that save so many lives in the face of all of the ied's, the booby traps and suicide bombers and everything else, were elated that they're going to be home for christmas. how i...

The things that caught people's attention because he used the wrong sort of fertilizer and the bomb didn't go off which led a lot of people to think he didn't have sophisticated connections. nonetheless this terrorist attack failed at the outset, did it not? the bomb didn't go off. >> what we just heard from the deputy director of the f.b.i. that it was accrued device and there were several components and that the central detonators did not go off. when you speak to people who work in the area of explosives, ied's, improvised explosive devices, it doesn't take much when you have canisters of p...

Directly from the ground forces. >> tell me what you are looking for when you are out there supporting one of those missions? >> the goal is to support the ground forces, the boots on the ground. if we are looking for ied's, improvised explosive devices we are looking for potential hot spots on the ground or insurgence possibly planting an ied or nefarious activity that doesn't look like a friendly action. >> number 2. >> you are very familiar with your target. for that 3 or 4 hours that target is yours and you know what's going on. sometimes you don't want other pilots to come in and take ove...