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The u.s. intends to withdrawal all but 50,000 troops by the end of this mont month. nate that it says u.s. service member died today following insurgent attack in southern afghanistan. civilian deaths are the subject of another less visible war being fought behind the front lines. the objectsive not territory, but could be harder to get. mike emanuel has that story from the pentagon. >> reporter: in the battle for winning over afghan hearts and minds, the u.s. and the coalition partners may have at the least public relations victory over the taliban. a new united nations study says afghan civi...

The u.s. intends to withdrawal all but 50,000 troops by the end of this mont month. nate that it says u.s. service member died today following insurgent attack in southern afghanistan. civilian deaths are the subject of another less visible war being fought behind the front lines. the objectsive not territory, but could be harder to get. mike emanuel has that story from the pentagon. >> reporter: in the battle for winning over afghan hearts and minds, the u.s. and the coalition partners may have at the least public relations victory over the taliban. a new united nations study says afghan civi...

About general mcchrystal's initial effort to limit civilian casualties. that has continued with general david petraeus, and so afghan casualties are up so far this year, most of them are from the enemy. here's a quote from the u.n. report. quote: three-quarters of all civilian casualties were linked to anti-government elements, an increase of 53% from 2009, and a lot of the blame going to those ie ds, those roadside bombs which will kill children when they go by, kill women when they go by and, also, hazardous to our troops. rick: this was written up by the united nations, but i imagine this i...

At this point. i think that's why there's a basis for optimism moving forward. >> so you think it's sealed? >> well, it needs to be sealed from the bottom. we've sealed the casing pipe from the top. we need to drill into the area outside the casing pipe and well bore and do that with the relief well. that will be happening this week. >> i want to play you some sort of things from april and june when we were trying to get a grip on what you were dealing with here. >> it has involved into an environmental challenge of the first order. >> already this oil spill is the worst environmental disaster...

Says, well, three-quarters of it is pretty much gone. there's another quarter in there that microbes will take care of and it doesn't sound like the environmental disaster that we were told it was. >> well, if you're sitting in barataria bay, it's still an environmental disaster. if the folks haven't come back to the panhandle of florida, it's still a disaster. i think what we need to understand is there's a lot of oil that's been taken care of, there's a lot of oil still out there and a lot of shoreline that needs to be cleaned. we need to keep a steady hand and the till and keep this cleanup...