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What is the significance of this handover today, dominic? >> reporter: martha, this is the first in this three final milestones of the withdrawal stage of u.s. forces from iraq. camp victory of the biggest of bases america had here. up to 84,000 soldiers and contractors living on there pretty much from early 2003 onwards. it was the center of all the commands there. it had much more influence across the country in terms how it impacted in iraq than the embassy, the u.s. embassy in the green zone for example. hundreds of thousands of u.s. soldiers came in and came out through this particular ba...

They are arriving in country. he made that announcement after a long and detailed review of the policy. remember the conversations in the situation room. the president saying we can't be there in perpetuity. although the deadline for the beginning of withdrawal of american forces from afghanistan, a lot believe that will be negligible at the beginning of that withdrawal stage. >> mike, thanks for the update from the white house. want to continue the coverage on the volcano in iceland, the havoc it is having on travel plans around the world to. heathrow airport. tom is live. there's an update...

Post-lude of this. you heard americans say they had a government in a box ready to roll, to come in and provide services, to provide schools, to make sure water and electricity were all flowing. but we've seen this movie before and you know that come some point, the americans have to move on and the transfer to the afghans has never worked well in the past. it has to work well this time. because if you think about president obama's 18-month deadline before he begins to ramp down troops even very slowly, doesn't give them a whole lot of time to get the government in a box out of the box. >> one...