Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100805:17:46:00
To a little globetrekking, we go to afghanistan, the ongoing war there and "u.s.a. today" saying the taliban targeting afghan civilians with their weapon of choice, ieds. the newspaper says that eight ieds planted by the taliban killed 75% more afghan civilians this year than in 2009. so far this year, 1,859 civilians have been killed by ieds. that's up from 2009, when i'ds, killed 1,057 afghan civilians. ieds, firmly called improvised explosive devices are o made of cheap materials, like fertilizer, the taliban plant them in the roads and they're detonated by contact orally remote-controlled ...