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There have been a number of insider attacks, green on blue attacks where afghan security forces or someone posing as an afghan cu afghan security force attacks an american service member or coalition member but a case of an accidental shooting like this is very rare. earlier in the month, we saw the death of major taylor, who was a mayor, a national guard service member serving from utah. we saw him killed in an insider attack. it's been a really difficult month for u.s. service members there in afghanistan, a place where a lot of americans just on a daily basis don't even remember there are a...

Enormous u.s. military response. another issue. returning to afghan, really a disturbing photo or a striking one emerged at the top u.s. general in afghanistan walking to a meeting there, carrying a weapon. i believe that's an m-4 assault rifle. what does that say about security in afghanistan today? >> an extraordinary photo. let's put it up. that is general scott miller, the head of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan. he is clutching a fully loaded m-4 assault rifle. this is not what you typically see the top commander doing. his security personnel, who have to protect him, around him, they...

Leaves behind his wife, jenny, with and seven children. seven. their ages span from 11 months to 13 years. utah's lieutenant governor released a statement and i'll read part of it for you, writing, i hate this. i'm strugglinging for words. i love mayor taylor, his amazing wife, jenny, and his seven sweet kids. utah weeps for them today. this war has once again cost us the best blood of a generation. we must rally around his family. so let's go to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, with just this tragic, tragic news. what happened, barbara? >> good afternoon, brooke. in north ogden, uta...

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It is the hardest job for commander of forces at combat, just a day into his new assignment, the u.s. commanding general in afghanistan announced a u.s. service member was killed today in what is being described as an insider attack. barbara starr joins us now live from the pentagon. what do we know about the circumstances here? >> hi, jim. very early word coming out of afghanistan that one service member was killed, another wounded in eastern afghanistan in one of these so-called insider attacks, what that generally means is they believe the perpetrator was someone who was a member of afghan ...