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Other people are saying the chaos of the revolution has allowed all sort of back safety practices to grow and continue inside egypt. either way 19 people dead and clearly a singular horrific way to die as we saw in that video. shep? >> shepard: leland vittert live for us tonight. remember the reports from the pentagon? violence is down in afghanistan. it's one reason afghan forces will be ready to take over security after 2014. we're making progress. look at the numbers. now we know the numbers were wrong. taliban attacks are not on the way down in afghanistan. as violent in 2012 as it was in ...

7%. a fact that drove the obama administration narrative the strategy was working allowing u.s. troops to come home early. >> i don't know of any overt action to cook the books if you will in afghanistan. but everyone i talk to testifies to a subtle pressure. on the part of commanders in the field to shape the narrative in afghanistan as positively as they can. >> the coalition corrected the "clerical errors" removing without explanation the monthly reports from last year on trends in security and violence. it now turns out that the number of taliban attacks in 2012 was flat compared to 2011. ...

>> r eporter: u.s. commanders insist progress remains unchanged. the coalition corrected these, quote, clerical errors by recently removing all the monthly reports on trends in violence. it now turns out the number of taliban attacks in 2012 were flat compared to 2011 and did not represent a 7% decrease despite repeated claims to the contrary. >> violence levels have been trending downward in the last two years after five years of steady increases beginning in 2006. we've also seen that the taliban has not been able the to regape -- been able to regain any of the territory that they've lost du...

Include the figures gathered by the afghans themselves, leading to the following statements promenade meteorologist. >> violence levels had been trending downward in the last two years after five years of steady increases, beginning in 2006. reporter: the problem is the attacks weren't trending downward. they were exactly the same as 2011. an embarrassing admission by the pentagon about how the president's strategy was bearing fruit, may have been misleading. >> shepard: what is the pentagon saying now? >> day blame the afghans. the afghan commanders forgot to submit their field reports so the...

involvement in iraq. we want to take you now live to baghdad, where you are looking at live pictures of the casing of the colors ceremony in the iraqi capital. it has been almost nine years since the u.s. invaded that country. and in that time, at least 128,000 iraqis have been killed in conflict situations. more than 4400 u.s. troops have also died. and now at this very moment,ed american military command in the country is closing a chapter in the history of both iraq and the u.s. armed forces with this somber ceremony. it is such a big contrast to the explosions that marked the beg...