this is probably not liked the 30th such incident where someone wearing an afghan national army uniform or police uniform has turned on their mentors or on their own colleagues. >> thank you very much. 2011 has been a difficult year for india's governing party amid corruption scandals, rising prices, and an aging leadership. the focus is beginning to shift to raul. plenty of people hoping he can revive the fortunes of his party. he campaigned in the most politically influential state in india. withey came in the 1000's all eyes on one young man. the heir to one of the will host are full political dynasties. the congress government has always worked for your interests, farmers, laborers, the poorest of the poor, he says, as they have been left output. -- out. this is only one massive rally that raul has held. he is trying to revive his party's fortunes. many within the congress and outside want to expand this campus and take on a more active role in national politics. as he goes to the next valley, they moved toward incomhim and e pushed back by a presidential- tight security. it is irre

contacting the counterterrorism operations against the taliban al qaeda and also helping the afghan national army which is not able to defend against the taliban on its own exactly we're going to go back to the. pakistanis saying they're not going to go to the bond conference i mean how much of a slap in the is a real slap in the face or do something symbolic if use point in trying because congress again is very confident that there will be some kind of settlement or they'll be a big player in it we could walk away from this conference right now with confidence to at least giving the americans a notice that the public opinion purposes at home they have to be listened to more in apology is needed more than an apology for what happened at a border crossing. yeah i think that the pakistanis can fairly securely walk away from this conference at the end of the day is that is all a part of participants in this process such as it is or equal pakistan has a great deal more weight at the table and in international process to try to bring about a political solution in afghanistan that does not include paki

afghan muslim army consists of tadzhiks and brubecks they are considered just as foreign as nato troops. nato officials who recently admitted that their program of trying to get more press genes into the afghan national army has the objective of getting them out by the end of this year . anyway, the key point is that the garrisons strategy is doomed . it merely perpetuates an unwinnable war to high costs in lives and money. the only way out, as court judge decided cal wasser talks. ideally he saw this happening in various levels. one was the regional and national level to get the neighbors the neighboring countries outside powers on board. the other was among afghans between the government in the insurgency. and the soviet leader was fortunate in that there was not already in international track scene after the invasion. the un had appointed a mediator is mission it was to try to portray the kremlin to a pullout . pakistan in u.s. would stop the insurgents from using pakistan as a base. when the colleagues has written a book. it came out a long time ago. so these u.n.-mediated talks have not gone anywhere. they culminated in the agreement of april 1988 in geneva which allowed the authorized pullout o

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. >> forward operating base griffin is home to the army's artillery group and the national afghan army. the five guys will be quartered here. >> somebody sleeps here? somebody sleeps here. >> that's jeremy's room. >> let's make this place home. >> these converted storage sheds are home sweet home for the duration. >> my palm tree. >> yo, yo, yo, homie, got to check this out. we got our beds up today. we got them raised off the floor so we could have storage room down underneath. me and brendan has our bunks here. we will probably have a tv going up there and refrigerator, and more shelving units for magazines and all the goodies we will get. make it comfortable. we will be here for a long time. >> what we should put above that, is america [ bleep ]. >> after moving in, the chief and his rookie pack the vehicle for action. >> so far the truck looks pretty good. >> the 20-ton vehicle is built to hold all of the team's tools. over the next five months, the team will spend more time in the truck than in their bunks. >> i will sort through all that. let me do it my way. >> what? >> i will b

a man wearing an afghan national army uniform killed two french soldiers.try is committed to the mission to restore peace in afghanistan. >>> stratfor says it's going to wait to launch its website. hackers stole credit card information from subscribers and released stratfor's private client list. the company analyzes international security threats. apparently it didn't see this one coming though. >>> and according to "the wall street journal" bp could now face its first criminal charges stemming from the 2010 gulf oil disaster. it's the worst oil spill in u.s. history. prosecutors say bp engineers misled regulators about the risks of drilling at that site in the gulf. >>> political buzz is your rapid fire look at the best political topics of the day. three questions, 30 seconds on the clock. playing today political analyst and culture critic goldie taylor. dino co-founder of the american comedy festival and cnn contributor, will cain. hello, everyone. first question, newt takes a nose dive in a new cnn time orc poll out of iowa. romney's going strong. today

i want to make sure we have an ongoing commitment to training of the afghan national army, knowing we have done a good job. we have been able to establish more of a robust civil society. i am always reminded of a conversation, we are in his office. he has had a -- he says i am not sure you fully understand what it means to be president of a country like mine. you see, we are a tribal c ountry. i have a hard time going back to my native region. i am not respected. i started reflecting on that reality. we have been able to build infrastructure. we have been able to expand rule of law. we have been able to fortify civil society. i think we have done the best we can do. i think we should be proud of what we have done. it is time to move on. it is time to come home recognizing we have an ongoing commitment. that takes me to pakistan. i think we need to recognize that pakistan, sadly, is nothing more than a transactional relationship. i wish we could say it is more. again, it has evolved with the highest of expectations. you look at, july of 1971, henry kissinger passed through islamabad on

so far, and that is to providing the majority of the staffing capability for the afghan national ormer -- national army officer training academy outside kaful, to which we will begin trading just over 100 uk personnel on an ongoing basis. if there to be further commitments beyond that, they will be decided in view course by the national security council. >> the talk about a minimum of around 100. you have a top-level? are we talking 500 or are we talking about 3000? what you see the range being within that limited capability? >> the nsc has not had this discussion it, but if you're asking me for my assessment of what colleagues on nsc are thinking about, i think we're talking in hundreds, not thousands. >> is there a danger do you feel that those few hundred could be drawn back into a combat role? >> no, they will not be there in a combat role. if we've made that very clear. they will be training, mentoring, and perhaps support at ministerial level in kabul and strategic security planning. that kind of operation. >> see you do not see the recent events in afghanistan over the last two weeks as hamperin

says the afghan local police program has been success., especially in remote areas despite disapproval from president karzai. rick levinthal, fox news. news. >>> daddy! daddy! >> oh, army national sergeant richard ursri is home for the holidays. his daughter shelby was quite surprised when he showed up at her soccer game. shelby's mom and coach knew all about. it the proud dad got to watch his daughter make the save. >> not as windy today, but it was cold. what's in store for the workweek? a gwen tolbart in the weather center with a first look at the weather. >> very on the chilly side today, maureen, and very cold tonight. we've had temperatures well below the seasonal average. however, we are getting a slight bit of a warm-up. today's highs 43 degrees at national, 42 dulles, 43 degrees at bwi and right now it's 35 degrees at national airport, 27 at dulles and 28 degrees at bwi. the burbs will be a lot colder. clear conditions tonight and light winds, so a lot of radiational cool clog just means once again very -- cooling which just means once again very cold. tonight 30 degrees for your overnight low with a southeasterly wind changing northerly later on and our workweek is st