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Insider attacks lately. the joint combat patrols, of course, are a critical part of the u.s. plan to withdraw from afghanistan by the end of 2014. is this a bad, an ominous sign? >> i do think it's extremely troubling. this is difficult for operational commanders on the ground and for our strategy. we've invested a great deal in training afghan police and afghan troops in partnering and in working closely together and in the vast majority of instances, that's gone well, there have been strong handovers, there's good partnerships, but these steadily increasing number of incidents where afghans ...

As you mentioned, there was a suicide blast in the capital kabul outside of the airport on airport road. it seemed to target a minibus carrying foreigners, primarily south africans. we don't know the nationalities of the rest killed in the attack. there were five south africans. a group, insurgent group in afghanistan took responsibility saying this was to avenge the anti-islamic film that caused outrage in the majority of the muslim world. the taliban, a different group also using that video, that film as an excuse to attack foreign forces. the eight service members that died over the weekend...

Spite our face in this circumstance. but we need to press him to act like a government, the government that he's become. he's no longer the leader of a religious opposition. he's now the head of the largest state in the arab world. he's got to grow up, act like a man and do the the president is forcing him to do. we have every right to be upset, but we have to limit that. get mad but not that mad. >> at the same time in afghanistan where our troops are at risk, you have these insider attacks. again, there is going to be a push to withdraw more rapidly. >> it's going to be terrible. what they'r...

Sense of frustration here at pentagon over this most recent round of insider attacks. the most recent of them, rather, a round of three of them in the past three days. on friday, what was thought to be the most secure installations in all of afghanistan, 15 insurgents wearing army uniforms killed two marines, wounded nine other people and destroyed six very expensive carrier fighter jets. on saturday, a gunman with an afghanistan government uniform killed two british soldiers in the southwest part of the country. on early sunday morning, in the pre-dawn darkness, an afghanistan police officer ...

Young boys, eight, nine, 10 years old and teenage boys. this didn't seem like a mass protest but something whipped up to create anti-american anger here in afghanistan. bill: four americans were killed in what is considered an insider attack. what is the level of concern about this, conor is it. >> reporter: not only four americans but two british soldiers were killed. this is the biggest problem facing the u.s. military in large part because building up the afghan security forces is first priority here. they're turning their weapons on u.s. and international mentors at an alarming rate. it is...