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danger, emotion and enormous pain and cnn is the only network to take the entire trip wrp america s injured heroes. tonight, a true reality show like none other. a special report, the journey home. we start tonight with a mission of mercy ending in bloodshed. ten members of a medical team were executesed by taliban militants on a roadside in afghanistan. six of the victims were americans. friends and family say they knew the risks but were devoted to helping the afghanistan people. our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr joins us from washington. these ten people, this is a vth civilians were from the international assistance mission, a vat group that provides medical care to afghan civilians. six americans, two afghans, a britain and german presumed dead in northeastern afghanistan. that s according to the head of this private organization. the taliban are taking credit. a local police chief says that gunmen stopped the victims on the road in this remote area, ....
Afghanistan here at landstuhl regional medical center. some of them are suffering massive injuries. they have been in roadside bomb martyr attacks. it is here that you can begin to see the price the wounded are paying in this war. in the last several weeks, trauma director lieutenant colonel raymond fang has seen firsthand what is happening to troops carrying out the strategy of protecting afghan civilians. you see a lot more injured what we call dismounted ied injuries where people are on foot patrol and are injured and here we see devastating extremity amputations. we re seeing a lot more three and four extremity amputations than i had seen, you know, during the conflict in iraq. reporter: specialist gary davis arrived here from afghanistan just a couple of days ago. he survived a massive roadside bomb. portions of both legs have amputated. we flipped over. everybody pulled some stuff on, ....
Overnight flight from afghanistan. these critically wounded troops have just arrived from afghanistan here at landstuhl regional medical center. some of them are suffering massive injuries. they have been in roadside bomb blasts, mortar attacks. it is here that you can begin to see the price the wounded are paying in this war. in the last several weeks, trauma director lieutenant colonel raymond fang has seen firsthand what is happening to troops carrying out the strategy of protecting afghan civilians. we see a lot more injured, what we call dismounted ied injuries where they re on foot patrol and injured. and here we see truly devastating extremity am pugh takeses. we have been seeing a lot more three or four extremely amputations than i had seen from the conflict in iraq. specialist gary davis arrived just a couple days ago. he survived a massive roadside ....
welcome. you re safe now. reporter: for some, the rush to intensive care, even as stretchers keep coming off the overnight flight from afghanistan. these critically wounded troops have just arrived from afghanistan here at landstuhl regional medical center some suffering from massive injuries. they have been in roadside bomb blast, mortar attacks. it is here that you can begin to see the price the wounded are paying in this war. in the last several weeks, lieutenant colonel raymond fang has seen firsthand what is happening to troops carrying out the strategy of protecting afghan civilians. we see a lot more injured what we call dismounted ied where they re on fool patrol. we ve seen a lot more amputat n amputations than i d seen in the ....
anything like that, and to see this happen just totally out of the blue. omar thornton s own family is hard pressed to explain how he killed eight people and then himself. security cameras caught him stealing beer from the warehouse where he worked. the racism claim? teamsters officials say thornton never filed a complaint, either with the union or a government agency. and you can imagine it s hardly business as usual today at that beer distributorship. bosses, workers and family members of the eight victims forced to move ahead. cnn s alison kosik is there in manchester, connecticut. how are they dealing with this? of course, it s a difficult morning for them. this is what residents are waking up to, the headline, workplace terror. it gives you an idea what those employees must have been going through behind me in the warehouse yesterday, around 7:00 in the morning. today, of course, company officials and employees at this warehouse will be meeting at a local uni ....