the baraki barak sub-governor is co located with the american base in baraki barak. well, actually, it is the afghan forces in the afghan governments and the u.s. state department, they are all collected it. which is delivered in a good idea. they work together run a daily basis. it is the challenge working with the local afghan government, because there's not a mind set that the governments exist to provide services. that is what has got to happen to pull together a federal system that actually works. >> is that largely a state in government role? >> increasingly, yes. you see a surge in other non- military agencies moving into the area since the beginning of the year. more u.s. troops, too, but they are trying to cede some of those development and government's role is to government civilian spirit and --. in baraki barak there was a district support team, which is a state department team that sense and experience foreign officers -- are in service officers to try to show the government this is what it looks like to run a local government. you need to walk around, t

the police chief here in baraki barak does an outstanding job of providing us what we ask for.se was to develop checkpoints, to develop when he wants to send police there to visit those places, and he will let us know right away where he wants to focus. to say that -- perhaps in other provinces, if they are unaffected there, i would say that they have their problems. but here, the colonel is a very effective contributing part of our operations. and he does a good job on his own. nine & of the time he works hard on his own. -- 99% of the time he works hard on his own. >> this is a video from david axe, a journalist embedded with the u.s. army in october. he followed u.s. army patrols as they patrol the look our province, south of kabul -- the logar province, south of kabul. >> [unintelligible] >> you guys had right there -- head right there. it was right there. this is the shrapnel that we got from our house. >> that hit where? >> all the houses, but right here in our house. >> and you pull that from where? your house? >> [unintelligible] >> was anyone injured? >> [unintelligibl