army. sufficient numbers now today able to produce the required officers for each of those organizations, and then we've got other things going on from known commissioner officer courses to the national police academy of afghanistan, and as you might have heard in 2013, we'll stand up what we're calling cherst in the stand to replace the army schools with a one year officer program that also then continues feeding leaders into the army in the out years. again, if we want this investment being made here to endure, it's going to be critical that we stand up those institutions that will enable that to happen, and that's what we're doing through the leader development programs. we've also started a very deliberate effort for professionalizing this force. we're now developing the first time importance specialty skills out there that are really essential. we developed combat forces first. we're now getting to the much more challenging and difficult area of developing specialty skills. past may, we opened up last of the 12 specialty vocational skills doing everything from engineering, human resources, communications, those type of skill sets that are absolutely essential for a police and ar

at a patrol rally point of other members of this team moved on foot with two platoons of afghan national army and border police into the village for a pre-dawn meeting with the village elders. moving into the village, the patrol was ambushed by more than 50 enemy fighters firing rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, machine guns, from fortified positions of the slopes above. hearing of the radio that 14 members were cut off, corporal myers seized the initiative. with a fellow marine driving, corporal meyers took the corporal meyers took the exposed

the afghans now have a national biometrics database and they can cross reference when they are bringing people freight vetting process or to work their way into the army or the police. or they pick someone up and take their biometrics and take a back to the database and compared to whatever may be in the afghan national database, of which we do cross scarinharing. there is an intel effort going on. we stay within the defense and the interior and do not get involved in the national intel system itself. some other elements work with them. >> time for two more questions. > a clarification on tom's question. that means they are operating without any logistical or medical support from the coalition. is that correct? telescope part of the country their operating -- tell us what part of the country they are operating. >> i will be glad to come back to george. i monitor all the training aspects. i collect that kind of data so we get feedback to just our programs. i will have to come back and make sure george gets that. i do not want to mislead anybody. that does not mean they didn't have any coalition support. we keep saying in december of 2014, there still w

. >> after 20 years in the national army, i know what is heroism. now i am in the united states. i am very happy. i have always tried to do something vest for the people of the united states. thank you very much, everybody. i appreciate it. thank you to my family. chairman nolan: congratulations. [applause] >> hi will just had that as it can be for our employees driving in san francisco can be dangerous, there had been a spate of robberies, very cowardly acts of an individual's that has been robbing taxi drivers. you can imagine the driver would be terrified and knowing that someone like that is out there. the good news is that the san francisco police department has made an arrest. we don't have any more information about it. it is ongoing, but we are hopeful that they have captured the person responsible. i wanted to make you aware to the extent that they have the right person, kudos for getting the person of the street. >> this is an award for a taxi driver. i hope this to be the beginning of that kind of recognition on a regular basis. there are many people out there that do

the alp was created in july of 2010 to supplement the afghan national army and police at the village level. >>> human rights watch is urging the afghan government to investigate all allegations of abuse. it says reducing international troop levels should not come at the expense of the rights of the afghan people. >>> torrential rains continue to wreak havoc in many parts of south and southeast asia. countries, including thailand and india are struggling to get back on their feet. heavy rains and flooding in eastern indiana orissa state claimed 60 lives, displaced almost 100,000 people. the region has been hit by in ses and the rain for ten days. about 800 villages remain cut off. many people are waiting for government assistance such as food and relief supplies. meanwhile, weeks of heavy monsoon rains and a tropical storm have caused widespread flooding in tie land. at least 87 people were killed since late july, and a half million effected in 16 provinces. in the center of the country, four people were killed when an apartment building collapsed. tie land's department warned of flas

forces will be giving the leading role to the security to the afghan national army and the afghan nationalolice. are you confident this will stay a safe place? >> i think after we leave for the first month or two, they will have hardship. it's going to be almost a war again. but once the taliban realize that they are here to stay, then i think it's going to be back to normal. >> reporter: the question is are the afghan forces trained by the united states ready to do the job? that is the hope the entire american strategy in afghanistan is depending on. mandy clark, cbs news, safar bazaar. >>> this morning, on "the early show," the latest into the investigation into the missing mother in utah, susan powell. after remains were found, we will hear from her father. >>> and dakota meyer who received the medal of honor today at the white house, an interview with him. >>> we will hear from ashton kutcher as he gets hit to make his debut on "two and a half men." that's the "cbs morning news" on this thursday. thanks for being here with us i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. captioning funded by cbs

at a patrol rally point of other members of this team moved on foot with two platoons of afghan national army and border police into the village for a pre-dawn meeting with the village elders. moving into the village, the patrol was ambushed by more than 50 enemy fighters firing rocket- propelled grenades, mortars, machine guns, from fortified positions of the slopes above. hearing of the radio that 14 members were cut off, corporal myers seized the initiative. with a fellow marine driving, corporal meyers took the exposed gutter's position at a gun truck as they drove down the steep terraced terrain attempting to destroy the enemy attack and locate the trapped u.s. team. disregarding intense enemy fire, now concentrated on their loan vehicle, corporal meyer kill the enemy fighters with mounted machine guns, some near point blank range, as he and his driver made three trips into the ambushed area. during the first two trips, he and his driver evacuate two dozen afghan soldiers, many of them wounded. when one machine gun became inoperable, he directed to return to the rally point and switched

who serve for nation army. yeah. ok thank you we should have had ten truckloads of food but many of the trader joes i'd call didn't want to take the time and the whole food store back out of the last minute. sandra the lead cook told me that getting enough food is a constant struggle especially as the country's economic crisis deepens i mention martin i'm the only bit for bit selfish on bell south just kids here we supply a preface like she did it for. forty fifty people a day if we wouldn't pick up a bit tonight a tree or throws it would have dried their concert it is better for you to get it again i see get it. right. here if you're wrong thank you very much ok i think you're right we all felt pretty good the night had been successful go on a very small scale approaching individual stores had worked much better than going to corporate headquarters but saving perishable food requires organization and work and it's difficult convincing stores to give more than bread and dented cans. most of the time wasting food is j

army major nidal hasan's bloody rampage shocked the nation, including his own family.ggled to understand how the boy with the typical american childhood in virginia became a religiously motivated assassin. his cousin speaks out for the first time in this exclusive interview with abc's bob woodruff. >> reporter: what's been the impact on your family and you? >> devastation. clearly condemnation. we originally thought that he was shot. >> reporter: but nader hasan's cousin, major nidal hassan, was not a victim. he was the shooter who opened fire on his fellow soldiers in november 2009 at ft. hood, killing 13 and wounding 32. >> i was just talking to myself, saying, wait, this isn't be him. he is the last person any of us would have thought. he was never violent. >> reporter: nader and nidal were boys together, growing up in suburban virginia. >> play soccer, catch fire flies. >> reporter: birthday parties. santa at christmas. also graduations. nidal there on the left. nader says nidal was not religious then, but turned to religion after the death of his mother in 2001. n

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which is just announced whether it is still it is something that would be ended over to the afghan national army or the afghan national police but whether it's something that would remain under u.s. or eyes have command my guess is given that it's at bagram again this is just pure speculation on my part is that this is probably a facility for high value person first foreign fighters people that are being detained moving across the border from pakistan or coming down from central asia or people who are part of the hakani network or other high value individuals the average taliban fighters by and large being held by the afghan national police and by the afghan justice ministry in afghan prisons and as we've seen in recent months those afghan prisons are very secure and doing a very good job of keeping people who have been captured captured. every cent jailbreak i forget how many how many months ago we were going to try to basically tunnel under the prison which is an amazing feat not only of engineering but also. well they've managed to do it under everybody's nose so why but i think you know that

nation's veterans. my name is jennifer hunt. i'm a staff sergeant in the armyreserve and i have to deployment under my nose so far and i also work for an organization called the national resource directory. the gentleman before me mentioned it. we have to try and connect veterans, their families and servicemembers to her 14,000 resources nationally and community-based to help connect veterans with the help that they need and make their reintegration and healing. so that is out there as well if anyone wants to look into that. but my specific question is that you sarah protects servicemembers when i come home to get their jobs back, but it seems like you would need an update to protect student veterans who might get called up in the middle of the semester or maybe even family members who have to move several times with air servicemember and make jobs more affordable or the family members. i know my cia is out there but that is not always available for the spouses. can any of you speak to that, please? >> i guess, let me just address a couple of those things there

they can work and live in the same area while the army is feel the nationally. the second thing is that we have opened up regional training centers for army and police in the south, which did not exist just 18 months ago. we built a regional military training center down in helmand province. and we have police training centers that we have built in both kandahar and in most of our -- and lushtagar. we have had a huge uplift in southern pashtun in the last six months. the numbers are starting to change. initially, there have been more in the police then in the army. the third piece of this is trying to get after the literacy issue. two years ago, even though we had been in afghanistan as a mission, as isaf and the u.s. into years, the nato mission is only 22 months old. one of the things we realize roadway was that literacy in afghanistan is really bunched at two ends of the age spectrum. the generation that went to school prior to the soviet invasion in 1979 have a degree of literacy. the age group you want in your sector you forces, 18-40, there is a 14% literac

put another way, we're spending every year in afghanistan just to train the national army 12.$5 billion. just on training. the entire revenue to have a one month training course. if you start to do that you do that without results. >> you did say you felt it was a failure but also those accomplishments with regard to the health clinic and also noted the end goal was to create good gender sensitive multi-ethnic centralize state based on democracy, in human rights and rule of law. was that achieved? [laughter] >> suppose same next week number 10 is on the phone to talk about a job in the government. just assume. [laughter] given what you have done in your interest what said of responsibilities would you be hoping they had in mind for you? [laughter] >> and ed is day harmful question. [laughter] i love running things and one of the things i loved is organizing things i was obsessed with management. i would like to have a go but my biggest dream of all would be to rebuild and with the unthinkable we have three staff who could speak the afghan language of 350 people. at of policy in london n

. >> the afghan national army actually found a suspicious device or something that seems to be suspicious down this way from where we just came. what you're basically saying is theoretically, someone knew we were going to be coming back that direction and planted a bomb so we would hit it on our way back? >> yes, it's very lucky today because now that they found suspicious bomb material behind us, that prevents us from going back over it and getting exploded on. >> there was six jugs of homemade explosives, roughly 300 pounds of explosives. >> just so you know like 300 pounds is like a typical suv, like say a tahoe. breaking into about 2 million pieces and kill everybody inside the vehicle. >> roger. bush whacker seven. >> now with one ied found and neutralized, the combat engineers catch another break. >> we find one vehicle and happened to stop the right one with five personnel that tested positive on bomb making materials. >> this one is military grade plastic explosives. >> we caught the guys that potentially could have [ bleep ] the -- >> search these guys. make sure it's all good to

the national army of liberation started putting out a series of texts.there were these letters between him and a well-known mexican philosopher analyzing the drug war and in previous months but really an organized social grassroots response was not taking place in those are one of the things that have been really positive about sicilia's activism. although now there are a lot of risks of division on the left and stories that want to go into. but, since that, several of of the unions as well as organizations in the campaign ended up -- and javier sicilia called for a national liberation communiquÉ supporting that call and they marched, very large marge, some 20 or 30,000 members. but there is movement that it but it is only just starting. >> my question is, guess you are talking obviously about the culture and i have friends who have family who talk about going home and trying to talk to their family members and friends about it and everyone is scared to talk in general come even if their name is not connected to it so i'm kind of wondering your experienc

crowds are expected to surge forward when palestinians put forward their case at the united nations the army refused of request for an interview the most they give us was an e-mail response in which they said they were performing ongoing situation assessments and doing everything required in order to ensure that the daily routine and security on israel's northern borders was maintained but it wasn't security their tour of the right half of salad bars body he lost a leg and an eye when he picked up a mine when he was thirteen years old it was a moment that changed his life forever. or so what happened with you and sometimes. it was. because. continue the life he like. he got a little sympathy from the israeli government that blamed him for being in an area infamous for mines but instead of hate and anger sally wants his misfortune to be a warning to others and is now dreading what will happen if thousands of people surged towards the borders later this week. very very very sad because i know in or. around. make just. give flowers or. good life for the people it's nine months since the arab sp

where you have a lot of arguments which are empty as kind of skin your head off to the united nations israeli army digs in around decision and with women the way across space of peace seems as unlikely as binney rise actually leaving the west bank policy r.t. class of a. palestinian politician who. says that palestine deserves recognition after years of being under israeli occupation. sense of sorrow and loss not just based on anger that others instantly recognize instantly those who aren't even as prepared as we are and who haven't lived for sixty three years under brutal oppression. and state let's get an understanding from the international community and we have to constantly prevent things from getting these things by the israeli occupation by an american administration that faced the sea. and credit that so. i think it's about palestine. as an equal and is no longer treated as subhumans. right. euro zone finance ministers have decided to wait until october before deciding on whether to issue another cash bail out to greece as an informal meeting in poland or they say athens is not doing enoug

where you have a lot of dark moments which are empty as palestinians head off to the united nations israeli army digs in a wrong decision and with him in the way the prospects of peace seem as unlikely as binney was actually leaving the withstand policy r t. we will have much more on that meeting in our newscast tomorrow but for now that's going to do it for more on the story as we covered it r.t. dark homs last us they were.