unlike all others, general joseph dunford is charged with ending america's longest war. while so many wonder why we are still here, the view from our v-22 osprey, with flares for protection from missile fire, is a reminder that much work still needs to be done. what are we doing here? >> we're working on the afghan national security forces. we're developing their capabilities so they can provide security here in afghanistan. >> reporter: and they are not ready yet? >> and they are not ready yet. >> reporter: not ready now but dunford is confident that by the end of 2014, when america's combat role here ends, they will be. and what does that look like? we saw it today, at this remote combat outpost in southern afghanistan, that has seen some of the toughest fighting in the war. afghan security forces today officially took over. more than 120 u.s. soldiers who have vacated in recent days helped turn this district around. but not without a price. and there are some very sad reminders of the losses here. >> yeah. >> you're the first one going home? >> yes. >> all right. take

joseph dunford, the commander of u.s.d his personal apology and condolences to the families the killing of civilians by foreign forces has been a major source of tension with the afghan government throughout the nearly 12- year-old war. >> dramatic video out of iowa. after a semi-truck driver escapes from his vehicle just seconds before it explodes into flames. the truck driver lost control of his truck on the icy overpass. launching the cab and the first of two trailers over the railing. no one was hurt in the accident. but the driver is being cited for failing to maintain control of his vehicle. >> neighbors of the florida house that was nearly swallowed by a sinkhole are gathering their belongings today. this after the giant sinkhole opened up beneath the house on thursday night and swallowed a florida man while he was asleep in his bed. rescue crews called off the search for the victim. jeff bush. after the situation became too risky. now authorities are saying that the house next to the sinkhole is in danger too. tod

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to give to dunford just i was fired i must fight so. i'll fight for. the right. when we reach must to the second biggest city in iraq it has been locked down by the army. the previous night two bombs went off in the suit. i have to negotiate with the military chiefs for three hours before they let me in. across what appears to be a dead city and yet today mosul is in party mode. my name is ahmed and about i'm a law student today is a festival the university day that's why we can see all the troops they're here to protect us. the situation is very difficult the country is undergoing a wave of anonymous attacks and assassination my dream is quite simple i just want to live in an iraq that's safe and pete it's a magnificent country mustn't forget that it was once respectfully known as mesopotamia the land between two rivers i dream of peace. but peace seems impossible. the americans have gone but now kurds shias and sunnis battle for control of the city even the mosques are under military protection the internet in killing goes on in the name of allah. a leave muscl

joe dunford is spot on to do this saying, looks, guys.ens at the senior levels. but it does have an effect on you. so stay focused. do the right thing. >> retired army general spider marks. thanks for being with us. >> thanks. >> talk back question for you today. what kind of spiritual leader will draw people back to organized religion? facebook.com/carol cnn or tweet me. >>> now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question this morning, what kind of spiritual leader will draw people back to organized religion. catholics are hoping pope francis, revered to devotion to the poor will bring more people, especially young people back to the church. >> i have to come to church. i work a couple of blocks down. i had to come and thank god that we are not alone. >> especially in america to have a south american cardinal named pope is good for anyone, you know? >> especially a man of the people. raised poor, rode buses. they made a wise choice. >> in his first public appearance pope francis alluded to the need for

to give to dunford for up artist i was fights about how much fights. all fights. arrived. and. i. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. operations are. visiting the general hospital in fallujah is like living it was a nightmare. children with two heads toomas malformations missing limbs. and macao been unbearable literally they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child. all of them. get away and the grandmother you know my daughter cries all day long it but she hopes to see her daughter get better. but. i deeply affected i leave the city with its newborn monsters. we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. to. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrols or iraqi wearing uniforms supply. the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square.

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commander, general joe dunford, doesn't seem to be budging. >> if there are people who need to be detained we will be ensure they are detained. >> reporter: the visit coincides with another deadline, jim. it's tomorrow when president hamid karzai has demanded the withdrawal of all u.s. special forces from the wardak district. he's accuse them of overcease afghan militias who murder and torture, accusations the u.s.he flatley denies. >> axelrod: a late winter blizzard was supposed to smack parts of colorado today. forecasters had expected up to 16 inches of snow. but warmer-than-expects temperatures weakened the te storm's punch, just two inches fell in denver, though ice and high winds forced cancellationel of roughly 400 flights. it was just the opposite in new england where they're cleaning up after a nor'easter that was much more severe than many expected. here's terrell brown. >> reporter: the two-day storm dumped more than a foot of snow in the northeast. high winds and rain left towns flood along coast. on plum island, massachusetts, the pounding storm surge nearly swept homes into t

give general dunford our wrap up artist i was fired sparked i must fight. i'll fight. the fight right. welcome back to crossfire for all things considered on peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the invasion of iraq ten years on. ok douglas and i think back to you should anybody be held accountable for the an illegal invasion of iraq ten years ago i don't think it was ten years ago why not why not you know i know isn't whining we need to move on why not. i think a lot of reasons have been already watch and on this program john what do you lying let's talk about iraq today i mean we can sit here and we can relate again two thousand and three all day well i want to talk about iraq today john and what do you think what do you think today's thing better place should be called interventionist so show me somewhere in what i've written where i'm an interventionist i want to u.s. troops out of iraq as soon as possible wrote publicly that president obama needed to get us troops out of iraq because it wasn't helpful i've never advocated intervention anywhere john what ab

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joseph dunford, the commander of u.s. and allied forces in afghanistan, offered his condolences to the family of the boys who were killed" and said the coalition takes deaths. a statement issued by the killed thursday when coalition forces fired at what they thought were insurgent forces in the uruzgan province. it says a investigation team visited the killing of civilians by foreign forces has been a the afghan government throughout the nearly 12- year-old war. >> vicki: dramatic video out of iowa. after a semi-truck driver escapes from his vehicle just seconds before it explodes into flames. the truck driver lost control of his truck on the icy overpass. launching the cab and the first of two trailers over the railing. no one was hurt in the accident. but the driver is being cited for failing to maintain control of his vehicle. >> vicki: neighbors of the florida house that was nearly swollowed by a sinkhole are gathering their belongings today. this after the giant sinkhole opened up beneath the house on thursday night

commander, general joseph dunford said new rounds of anti-american violence might be spurred by presidentcent comments, including his claim that the u.s. and the taliban are with each other. hussein haqqani pakistan former ambassador to the united states. paul wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense when the war in afghanistan began. gayle tzemach lemmon. >> if you were there, as chuck hagel was, and the president of afghanistan would have made that statement saying the americans are as responsible for our problems as the taliban, what do you do in a situation, what is your private one-on-one looking like that day? >> i do remember, let's say to put it diplomatically, president karzai is in impulsive. he has always been, i remember my first meeting with him. he said after we were done he was going to go out and announce fairly radical measures against warlords and i don't know what he thought would happen. maybe he thought the american army would swoop in and do whatever he would do to announce. he said, look, maybe this is the right thing to do, but there needs to be a plan and a strategy

secretary hagel met with general joseph dunford, new commander of troops in afghanistan. the 15th guy to have that job, 15th. if the withdrawal of u.s. troops goes according to plan, he will also be the last person to have that job. so after a green on blue attack friday and two suicide bombings on saturday, then a cancelled transfer of control over an entire prison, also saturday, and then having to deal with the afghan president accusing the u.s. of working with the taliban, secretary hagel finally left afghanistan early this morning local time. hours later, another apparent insider attack, a member of the afghan national security forces shot and killed two americans, one of whom was a green beret. last month, the u.s. led military command announced it was wrong when it said taliban attacks were declining. it said in 2012, the number of attacks went down, but that was incorrect. they blamed clerical errors for erroneous reporting. after announcing there were just as many taliban attacks in 2012 as in 2011, u.s. military now says it is simply going to stop reporting on t

"the new york times" reported today that general joseph dunford sent the warning to battlefield commanders. he told them in an e-mail, "we're at a rough point in the relationship." karzai issued a new statement today saying he wants to help reform relations with the u.s. a coordinated attack on the iraqi justice ministry killed at least 25 people today in baghdad. car bombers and gunmen launched the raid, near the heavily fortified green zone. fighting lasted for an hour, as ambulances attempted to remove scores of wounded. no group immediately claimed responsibility, but the assault bore the markings of al qaeda in iraq. there's been a surge in the exodus of syrians escaping the civil war in their country. u.n. officials reported today the number of registered refugees increased 10% just in the past week. that brought the overall count to more than 1.1 million. it's believed thousands more syrians have fled, but have not registered. israeli prime minister benhamin netanyahu reached an agreement today to form a new coalition government. it's the first in a decade to exclude ultra-orthodox

general dunford said yesterday, "we have fought too hard over the past 12 years.have done too much to help afghan security forces grow over the past 12 years to ever think that violence or instability would be to our advantage." what is going on with hamid karzai? >> well, he's mercurial fellow. i think what did he this weekend was extremely disrespectful of the new secretary of defense, but more of the 66,000 troops we still have there and the almost 5,000 who have died there and the enormous amount of resources we've spent there. i do think that two precipitating event press the bagram handover around the wardak province departure. be that as it may, i think what we are doing is trying to make sure that our withdrawal protects our troops and the equipment we are trying to get out of that country. i do think it will happen this spring. karzai has to want stability in his country more than we want it and i applaud our military for all the efforts they've made 12 very, very long years and the longest war of our history. i want to add one other thing. saturday night

and we intend to ultimately i know joe dunford will continue this process, to continue.emphasize the continuation of that program at the basic or entry-level, but to continue to emphasize the continued learning of the afghan soldiers and police throughout the period of time of their enlistment so that this becomes not just and initiative, which is useful for military or police operation. it's an initiative that has the potential to change society in many respects. and so when you have that many folks who are returning to their villages after successful enlistments who are able to read and write, were able to make their numbers and express them, this has the potential for some pretty dramatic changes. >> across the country i think there were other important outcomes of where we found the ansf in 2011 to where we are today, which is that the securing of large segments of the population where other things now happen. he wrote about with michelle. i thought a very good piece with respect to what you discovered in kandahar. and the reality is that, and when i traveled in my b

we spoke with general dunn furred, the new commander of coalition forces -- dunford, the new commanderf coalition forces. chuck hagel said it was ridiculous claim. hamid karzai as a domestic and international audience. this was surprising, but for the domestic crop. host: how significant was our push back? we are seeing this on the front page of all the papers. this is getting some play here. what are the domestic implications? guest: in afghanistan, it is unclear. in the united states, we have to reassess what kind of partner is mr. karzai going to be. these are very important 12 months ahead in which the entire security mission is transitioning to the afghans. conversations continue about whether there will be any sort of an adoring and military presence after the mission expires in december 2014. it becomes a very delicate, political, military -- host: are you still with us? we will see we can get him one more time. we lost him. thank you so much for talking with us for a few minutes. he has been traveling with the defense secretary, defense secretary -- as we look at what the paper

ansf has the capacity to read and write to a first grade level and we intend ultimately i know joe dunford will continue this process to continue, to not just emphasize the continuation of that program at the basic or entry level but to continue -- to emphasize the continued learning of the afghan soldiers and police throughout the period of time in their enlistment, so that this becomes not just an initiative which is useful for military or police operations, it's an initiative that has the poem to change society -- potential to change society in many respects. when you have that many folks returning to their villages after successful enlistments who are able to read and write and able to make the numbers and express them this, has the potential for pretty dramatic change. across the country i think there were other important outcomes of where we found the ansf in 2011 to where we are today, which is that the securing of large segments of the population where other things could not happen. you wrote about it with michelle. i thought in a very good piece with respect to what you discovered

>> i spoke with general dunford are short time ago. that issue is being worked out. we are working this out as we speak. we would be reluctant to see our forces unable to operate there. at the same time, we need responsible people working with the resident. >-- president. >> going forward, the need to operate rather freely throughout afghanistan through special operations is central to with drawal plans? >> it is not just reversing it. it is crafting how best to operate for that province, which is a key route. it is still in place. i can get back to you once a decision is made. >> the largest issue is the extent, the planens. is the robusta, special operations capacity that could operate throughout the country. -- a robust, special operations capacity that could operate throughout the country. >> one is counterterrorism and the other is assisting the afghans in their character is him -- in their counterterrorism efforts. >> sir, the special operations forces we have in afghanistan are partnered. as you look at special operations forces, you cannot look independently

>> the secretary in afghanistan and secretary dunford, our new isaf commander responded to questions about karzai's comments. we of course take very strong issue with the notion that the united states is somehow colluding with the taliban. the important thing in our relationship with afghanistan is to work together. we do have common cause here and we need to work hand in hand to make sure the transition stays on track. when issues arise, and there's issues in any relationship. their closest allies and some of our closest partners include afghanistan. our belief is we can work through those issues if we handle it the right way. the secretary and president karzai had a very frank and open discussion about a range of issues while the secretary was in kabul. the secretary that's sure to regularly engage in the president karzai to talk about the transition process and to define in clear terms how we can work together to ensure that we are taking the fight to the enemy, that we are addressing challenges that confront his boat and that we note the progress made after nearly 12 years of war