going into helmand. somebody had to do helmand, but we were the most capable of the four nations. i personally thought there was a strong case for kandahar, but ended up in helmand for reasons i suspect they no more than i do about. >> okay. >> three parts of the questions -- was it right to go to helmand and was it right to go then? in terms of was it right to go at all, i think in many respects, it was a level of decision making, a decision within the uscr and within nato -- a discussion at the political level in nato to galvanize the nature of both the international communities and nato on the international community's behalf to to bring about change in afghanistan in terms of it being as it were an unsafe place, a place that was host to international terrorism and for which the delivery of good government was essential so i think in terms of going, the genesis of that from an international political level was right. to helmand, peter will have some views on this as well. i think that it was inevitable that the united kingdom as a leading player in nato has to play a leading pa

helmand. i was responsible for the running of day-to-day operations and anywhere else we have to go. i did that job until february 2007 which in the context of the questions, i was directly involved in the planning for the deployment to a afghanistan after the key strategic decisions have been taken. and i was responsible for the north end of operations in helmand through 2006. >> thank you. i think you may all have had the opportunity to see the website, that was given by former witnesses, including general frye. if there is anything you wish to correct from your perspective in that evidence, please take that opportunity to do so. do you think it was wise to push for the deployment into helmand in 2006 and what was your role in that deployment at the decision to go into helmand fax >> i was by then in my nato role. just to remind you, the decision was on the back of a much bigger and more important decision for nato to go to the south and east. britain, having been supportive of that decision

some of those interventions can be beneficial but unfortunately the legacy the record of iraq and helmand province means that it be very difficult to use military intervention beneficially when situations arise in the future yes you mention libya their critics say that france's decision to live in paris is well trying to reassert itself as a key power player could the same be said for the u.k. despite no boots on the ground as yet as you say. no the decision was influenced by one factor only and the reason it was supported in the house of commons is because on the monday were little kids taken there were threat was there from gadaffi that he was going into benghazi and he was going from house to house to move his enemies you had an army against a defenseless civilian population and the decision was taken to stop the slaughter of bengal's in the massacre of innocent people there that was the only reason it went through no they're not it will be other we gender's that we could be. suggest other countries but certainly as far as united was concerned going into libya was for humanitarian reas

we were in the helmand province, a little bit out west, but we did our best to try to see as many as 20,000 marines and sailors a possibly could. this is almost my fourth you are going in and out of afghanistan. i have watched it change over those four years. i have watched areas that were extremely dangerous and under heavy taliban control, to the places where you and i got out and did not have body armor on and work out shaking hands with folks. i have watched it change. my sense is that there is reason for optimism. i want to avoid the sense of winning or losing. i witnessed that on just things i have seen. the district governors, mayors in america, courageous men stepping up and rebuilding their towns and setting up marketplaces in getting children in school. i just talked to some folks this morning about children going to school and little girls going to school. this is a nation that did not buy you education for their girls, and yet we have gone in and out of schools now and seen those beautiful young afghan children, the girls with their resplendent dresses on it, going to sch

in a suspected coalition air strike two women and twelve children died in afghanistan's volatile helmand province after nato troops opened fire the target was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes were fired upon nato says it was in retaliation for an attack on a u.s. marine base in the region saturday. the u.s. space shuttle endeavor starts its last journey back to earth from the international space station shuttle commander mark kelly this station is three crew members for their help on endeavour's final voyage to install a cosmic ray detector this brings to a close america's thirty year long shuttle program after endeavor lands wednesday to retired will be a museum piece thank you senator. the world's i.c.'s continent but scientists say at the great at the rate glaciers glaciers are melting antarctica could soon be home to some lush green valleys are he's trying thomas travel to the bottom of the earth to find out why the world's coldest climate may be getting hot under the collar. each week pull out move a little of hikes to the billings house and doom glacier on kings

in a suspected coalition air strike two women and twelve children died in afghanistan's volatile helmand province after nato troops opened fire the target was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes were fired on nato says it was in retaliation for an attack on a u.s. marine base in the region of saturday. over two hundred suspected al qaeda government of taking control of the yemeni provincial capital after two days of heavy fighting the opposition accuses president saleh of surrendering of time to stoke fears of a terrorist threat it comes after yemen's leader a tribal chief agreed a ceasefire following five days of clashes that killed over one hundred twenty three full days of oppression ago following months of protests at least twenty. japan's fukushima nuclear plant could be hit by a powerful thai. monday officials say the quake and tsunami and tsunami damage facilities are not fully prepared for the heavy rain and the wind some buildings are still wide open and it's fear the storm could send radioactive material into the air and say buck has been battling to try to fix

the strike occurred in helmand, where more u.s. troops die than any other province. the u.s. fights back with the help of air strikes. but afghan officials complain bitterly that some of those strikes miss their targets and kill civilians. civilians are killed by both sides in this war. 2,700 died last year. mostly from taliban bombs. in village after village i've walked through, most afghans say the taliban is their enemy. but they warn they'll turn against the u.s. if mistakes like today's keep occurring. >> and nick schifrin joins us here at the desk in new york. and nick, you've been to so many towns and villages after incidents like this one. so hard to win the people back. >> reporter: david, this is a region where the local culture demands that people take revenge after an incident like this. even if these people were for the u.s. and against the taliban before this incident, this incident will mean that they'll take revenge against the u.s. and fight u.s. troops. and that goes to show just how fragile some of the progress the u.s. is trying to make in this region is.

international stories we're covering for you this hour and makes a way as far in afghanistan volatile helmand province has left at least fourteen people dead the targets i was insurgents but instead to civilian homes was strong it follows an insurgent attack on a u.s. marine base in the region on saturday elsewhere as hell of a suicide bombing in the north has killed a senior police chief and five others including native troops the police commander was one of the leaders of the northern alliance which fought against medicines. yemen's president on the country's tribal chief have agreed as. five days of clashes in the capital that left more than a hundred and twenty dead the gun battles of began after president saleh refused under proposal by go out mediators to step down within a month this week's findings to fears that yemen could descend into civil agree sunday is under pressure to go after months of demonstrations demanding an end to twenty year. there's already a head for japan's fukushima nuclear plant as a powerful typhoon has its way in the next day also officials admit the facility is

this hour now and two women and twelve children have been killed in afghanistan as well as whole helmand province by nato troops there's halakha it was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes were fired on nato says it was in retaliation for an attack on a u.s. marine base in the region on saturday afghan president hamid karzai has criticized coalition forces for not doing enough to prevent civilian deaths. eva two hundred suspected al qaeda gunmen have taken control of the yemeni provincial capital of zinjibar after two days of heavy fighting the opposition accuses president of rendering the town to fears of a militant takeover it comes after gammons leader and the tribal chief agreed a cease fire calling five days of clashes that have killed over twenty people so they are under pressure to go following months of protests that is twenty. nigeria's goodluck jonathan has been sworn in as president i've heard the size of election victory last month security was tight around the city's eagle square inauguration with kilometers of roads blocked off he now faces a divided nation

in a suspected coalition air strike two women and twelve children died now afghanistan's volatile helmand province after nato troops opened fire the target was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes were fired upon nato says it was in retaliation for an attack on a u.s. marine base in the region on saturday. more than two hundred suspected al qaeda gunmen have taken control of the yemeni provincial capital of zanzibar after two days of heavy fighting the opposition accuses president sali of surrendering the town to stoke fears of a terrorist threat is comes after yemen's true leader and tribal chief agreed to a cease fire power when five days of clashes that have killed more than one hundred twenty people saleh is under pressure to step down fall with months of protests like these twenty years. u.s. space shuttle endeavor was started for the flight back to earth from the international space station shuttle commander mark kelly thank the station's three crew members for their help and evers final mission to install a cosmic ray detector this brings to a close the america's th

number of civilian casualties his speech as we should strike killing ten children or four adults in helmand province in the south because i said this would be the last of its kind but nato says the air strikes are a crucial weapon in the war against the taliban insurgency. in yemen the un's human rights offices says more than fifty people have been killed by pro-government forces since sunday in the latest incident military jets pounded a town getting darker and darker militants these days however the opposition claims the president could have intentionally surrendered control of the area to show you're sick you haven't the right hotel violent clashes have raged for three months between government forces and protesters he was the president. in turkey tunnels of my town of birth with the deadly israeli assault on an agent bound for gaza nine were killed in the raid which led to a breakdown in already strained ties between television and it's now goal meanwhile a new turkish aid for to is being ready to deliver supplies in the second half of g. israeli military officials the chiefs have been

today's international stories we're covering for you this out and they tell us right in afghanistan helmand province is left at least fourteen people dead thought it was a surgeon's but instead to civilian homes was it follows an insurgent attack on the u.s. marine base in the region on saturday elsewhere a suicide bombing in the north has killed a senior police chief and five others including nato troops and he's commander was on the leaders of the movement and switch off against militants. everyone's president on the run from the struggle street have agreed a ceasefire after five days of clashes in the capital that left more than one hundred twenty people dead and gun battles began our presence they refused to sign a proposal review is here to step down. this week's fighting so fears that yemen could descend into civil war so the pressure to go after months of demonstrations demanding an end to his twenty year. there's a worry ahead for japan's fukushima nuclear plant as a powerful typhoon heads its way into the next day or so officials admit the facility is not fully prepared for winds s

i think it distressful to be a young man on patrol in helmand province day after day with the ambiguity of ieds, somebody shooting, and having to be measured. i think that creates stress . >> do seals ever get a relaxor? are there any relaxors given? i can >>'t imagine that. in vietnam, we had pills where you could take one, but all they do is screw you up. gine that.ima they try to keep their sleep cycles. >>what is the question asked most often. >> most revolves around training. why do young men become interested/ i tell them i am proud, but we have a whole range of special operations. a young man can see which one meets capabilities best. >> wikipedia tells you there are 10 seal teams. odd for west coast, even for east coast. i >>t was one and 2. >> now there is team in one -- seal delivery team 1 and 182. what do they do? >> they specialize in nuclear submarines. they will go off the coast, and they will come not from the parent submarine into a smaller submersible and conduct a mission from there. but it could be special reconnaissance. they specialize, and it takes a lot of traini

afghan officials and nato air strike aimed at taliban insurgents hit two civilian homes in helmand provincet night killing two women and 12 youngsters. for more on the attack we are joined by mandy clark embedded with u.s. troops in afghanistan. and mandy, first up what can you tell us about that attack? >> well, russ, it appears that late last night a u.s. base came under attack and the marines stationed there called for backup. coalition forces launched an air strike to repel the attack but the provincial governor said two homes took a direct hit. and killing those women and children. now the afghan president hamid kharzai has issued a scathing statement saying the attacks was a big mistake. and he said the u.s. and nato forces have to stop arbitrary and unnecessary operations which he said are killing civilians every day. >> mitchell: mandy, the way things stand right now, would it be possible for afghan forces to take control? >> well, the short answer, russ, is no. the u.s. has poured many millions of dollars in the training and equipping of afghan forces but they're simply not ready t

some of the wrong news this hour now and see women and twelve children being killed in afghanistan's helmand province by nato troops the target was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes strong he says it was in retaliation for an attack on a u.s. marine base of the region on today afghan president hamid karzai has criticized coalition forces not doing enough to prevent civilian deaths. thank you one hundred suspected al qaeda gunman have taken control of the yemeni provincial capital of the zinjibar after two days of heavy fighting the opposition accuses president sunday of surrendering that sounds of fears of a militant takeover it comes after yemen's leader and tribal chief agreed to cease fire following five days ago which is that if they have a hundred and twenty people players under pressure to go following months of protests around his twenty year war. most here is good luck to all of them has been sworn in as president after a decisive election victory last month security was tight around the city's eagle square for the inauguration with kilometers of roads belong song

all the international stories we're covering this hour a nato air strike in afghanistan's volatile helmand province has left at least fourteen people dead the target was insurgents but instead two civilian homes were struck it follows an insurgent attack on a u.s. marine base in the regional today elsewhere a taliban suicide bombing in the north this killed the senior police chief and five others including nato troops the police commander was one of the leaders of the northern alliance which was against melissa. as warrior head for japan's fukushima nuclear plant as the powerful typhoon heads its way in the next day or so officials admit that his energy is not fully prepared for heavy tropical rain and winds some reactor buildings are wide open and it's storm might send radioactive material into the air and sea has been battling to fix another broken cooling system but all thought another. band of reportedly taken control of the yemeni provincial capital all kinds of militants are believed to be among those who seized is zinjibar following two days of heavy fighting president lays being ac

killed in a suspected coalition air strike two women twelve children died in afghanistan's model helmand province after nato troops opened fire the target was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes were fired on nato says it was in retaliation for an attack on a u.s. marine base in the region saturday. the u.s. space shuttle endeavor will start its last flight back to earth from the international space station shuttle commander mark kelly thanked the station's three crew members for their help write a devil's final mission with star cosmic ray detector this brings to a close america's thirty year long shuttle program after neverland's wednesday retired crowd will become a museum exhibit facing. finally in this news block if you ever find yourself and kartika a dip in the freezing sea probably won't be high on your to do list but for some looking to reveal the secrets of science and so on today's work john thomas reports . a backward plunge into the frigid antarctic waters certainly is not for the timid but this crew is making this dive a regular experience all in the name o

killed in the suspected coalition air strike two women twelve children died now afghanistan's volatile helmand province after nato troops opened fire the target was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes were fired on nato says it was in retaliation for an attack on the u.s. marine base in the region saturday. u.s. space shuttle endeavor is to start its back to earth from the interactional space station and shuttle commander mark kelly thank the station's three crew members for their help on endeavour's final voyage to install a rate attacked or this brings to a close america's thirty year shuttle program after endeavor landed wednesday retired become a museum. of life at the bottom of the earth might seem secluded and lonely but scientists working in antarctica found a few ways to warm themselves during a long pole or nights or tease sean thomas experiences a day in the life of the south pole research station. billings townsend station it is one of seven permanent russian research stations in antarctica but it's not just the location that makes this place special life here is an

suspected coalition air strike two women in twelve children died in afghanistan is what we're told helmand province after nato troops opened fire the target was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes were fired on paper says it was in retaliation for an attack on a u.s. marine base in the region on saturday. of the two and a suspected al qaeda gunman have taken control of the yemeni provincial capital after two days of heavy fighting your position accuses president of surrendering the town to stoke fears of a terrorist threat it comes after yemen's leader and tribal chief agreed a ceasefire from in five days of clashes that have killed over one hundred twenty days under pressure to go for months of protests and. maybe more trouble if fukushima nuclear plant it could be hit by a powerful typhoon as early as monday officials say the quake and tsunami ravaged facilities did not fully prepared for heavy wind rain some buildings are still wide open it's feared the storm percent radioactive material into the air in the sea work has been battling to fix a broken cooling system they

killed in a suspected coalition air strike two women twelve children died in afghanistan's volatile helmand province after nato troops opened fire the target was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes were fired nato says it was in retaliation for an attack on the u.s. marine base in the region saturday. u.s. space shuttle endeavor started its last right back to earth from the international space station shuttle commander mark kelly the station's crew members for their help out endeavour's final voyage to install a cosmic ray detector this brings to an end america's thirty year long shuttle program after a never lands wednesday retired spacecraft will become a museum. has been violent clashes across southwest yemen where rebel forces have taken control of the provincial capital zanzibar and are continuing the fight to power are continuing to fight for power in other towns in the region clashes followed two days of heavy fighting in which twenty six people were killed and one hundred fifty injured according to local medical staff president saleh is refusing to step down despite

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hamid karzai's warning comes after nato air strikes sunday in helmand province killed nine people, most of them small children. he said we see nato from the point of an ally if they don't stop air strikes on afghan homes their presence in afghanistan will be considered as an occupying force and against the will of the afghan people. we brought in this video by satellite. karzai says he will action if he needs to. he has not detailed what he will do. some analysts say he could pull back the cooperation of afghan troops. that would be a huge setback for the u.s. as president obama tries to wind down the war. the strikes over the weekend were ordered after a nato patrol had come under fire, but karzai says civilian casualties are becoming too common. nato says this morning, the strikes will continue with the help of local afghan forces. reporting live from washington, d.c., alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, alison. >>> 7:15. the rebels in libya have launched the country's first english-language online radio station. ♪ >> tribute fm targets a worldwide audience. its purpose i

i don't think i'm telling any secrets when i can tell the crowd after spending a 14 hour day in helmandrovince going from base to base out in the sun giving these speeches and have a ton of meetings and listen to the concerns of the marines, general amos had to get up at about 1 a.m. to do a video teleconference with the chiefs back home because of the pressing demands of the ongoing budget. so i admired your hardiness and your strength and i'm sure it's not over yet with those conversations. so you probably can't tell us everything we would love to know, but what can you tell us about the nature of the ongoing exercise? and specifically, is the $400 billion number that the president outlined on april 13 in his speech, is that set in stone or is that a number that you sense is really subject to reconsideration as the chiefs and others have a chance to weigh in on what that number would mean for the size and strength of our military? >> i can't talk about whether the 400 billion is locked in concrete, mike. i don't know. but i think the greater signal was to the department was okay, our

it was really a dangerous area for helmand promise -- province. they had a lot of casualties, both wounded and marines we lost. yet you could be with these kids. we were there at christmas time with them. we just missed it when you and i got there. there -- their morale was off the page. how can that be? it is who we recruit. it is how we train, and an expectation of legacy. you would be surprised how many are on their sixth or second deployments. they like what they are doing. not every marine comes in and says, "i like it so much i want to reenlist." one of the things i look at is the measures of how we are doing. if you want to be a marine today and walk into a recruiter's office in macon, georgia, it will be seven months. it will be seven months before we can send you to boot camp. the other thing that is kind of a litmus test is that these young men who come and, really men and women who come in, they want to be in the infantry. the infantry is the currency of this war. those young men and women are the currency. so morale is high, and they a

you buy him off and we're doing a combination of both we've beat some of them down in some areas helmand province and other areas we've actually run the taliban mostly out of town but in the areas where we haven't when we can find some who are at least amenable to not attacking the federal or the national government directly or us then i think that's what we're going to do. maybe that's the best answer there's no good answer that's for sure why i'm different here is to see how cub like they're going to make us disclosures and especially now they're waiting for president obama to make an announcement of troop withdrawal which the truth but they're always supposed to begin in july now is not making an announcement a lie it seems like that deadline might be pushed back who knows what's a very flexible object thanks so much for being here tonight absolutely now still to come tonight former president bill clinton says that all the information on the internet needs to be the factually correct sounds like kind of a big demand story no explain how he wants to make that happen and then the suprem

can't deal with afghanistan singlehandedly good for instance the the violence that's occurring in helmand has nothing to do with the kabul government it has everything to do with heroin ok that's that's really interesting the multifaceted nature of war and you thirteen afghanistan so i want to know when you were there did you feel that you were fighting an enemy or building a better afghanistan right what is your sense of your own well i when i was here when i was there it was in two thousand and one so it was it was a totally different game it was i was also in iraq in two thousand and three so again what's taking place now and was then is totally different but let me explain why when i was there nine months ago what exactly i observed when i was with the u.s. troops i was with the afghans i met with former taliban leaders and met with with afghan officials as well part of the karzai administration basically what we see is a stand off cultural civil war amongst rural people in the south and the urban elites inside of kabul there are people inside of kabul the karzai government is stealin

i picked helmand because that is our experience. their military and their police is very often at the forefront of that because, quite often the operations going on today are afghan plants and an-afghanled. but the ability for our soldiers to engage with afghans has increased exponentially as we acquired the initiatives. so, this is a positive trend. if you were to ask people down on the streets in helmand and look at the media which is quite sophisticated, i think it would be quite reassuring. >> i brought my excellent m.a. who just hit me statistics on attrition. in march, it was 2%. the target is 1.4%. it is coming down. it is pretty good actually. >> general, thank you very much indeed. i have been studying these things for a number of years now, and yet i learned a great deal during the course of this morning. we are all grateful to you. i am sorry to have to be so rushed but such is the way of life. thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2

february 1999, bin laden is sighted at a desert training camp in helmand province, afghanistan.remained there for more than a week. but there was a hunting camp nearby used by officials of united arab emirates, a u.s. ally. >> policymakers were concerned about the danger that a strike might kill an emirati prince or other senior officials who might be with bin laden or close by. >> reporter: there was another sighting and another missed opportunity that spring. clinton administration officials defended the decision to hold back. >> if we're going to kill people, innocent people, as well as carrying out this operation, let's be as sure as we can that we've got the right target, the right information and minimize, if we can, killing innocent people. >> reporter: during this period the u.s. repeatedly slipped cia agents and military special operations teams into afghanistan. agents set up electronic surveillance of roads and villages which was still active just days before september 11th. but al qaeda members stayed one step ahead and used technology to their advantage. monitoring

it is very stressful to be a young trooper on patrol in helmand province day after day ,ith the ambiguity of ied's having to deal among friendly populations and being very measured in their response. that creates more stress than perhaps a high-risk operation like the one we see with osama bin laden. >> this may be a strange question, but is there any kind of relax or given to someone about to go into combat because the stress is so high? >> i cannot imagine that. i remember in vietnam we used to have these little dexedrine pills, but all they do is screw you up. i cannot imagine them doing anything like this. they try to keep their sleep cycles in proper rotation so that when they are awake and alert is when they will be going on this operation. >> what questions are asked most often? >> most of them revolve around training. how do they get into this? why do young men become interested in this? >> those are the general questions. i tell them i love navy seals and i am very proud of them. we have a whole range of special operations components. a young man has a smorgasbord of operations h

. >>> in afghanistan, a government official says a nato air strike in the volatile southwestern helmand province accidentally hit 2 civilian homes killing 14 women and children and the strike follows a taliban attack in northern afghanistan that killed a top police commander. >>> and a bus crash in washington state has left two people dead and more than a dozen injured. the bus crashed into a disabled pickup truck on the shoulder of the road saturday night causing the bus to skid on to its side. two passengers on that bus were killed, and a man standing by the disabled vehicle was seriously injured. >>> and a small fire at dodger stadium last night forced some fans from their seats in the upper decks. smoke enveloped the upper level seats on the first base side of the stadium, but the fire was contained in a storage area. the only person left in that area, by the way, was the television cameraman, intrepid that he is, and through it all, the game went on and the dodgers lost. >>> one year in 40 seconds or rather seven dog years and 40 seconds. take a look at this time lapse video of dun

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and today counterinsurgency strategy there is troops meant to protect the senate in places like helmand province, which jack does quite well. what he's missing is the police force. if you drive in any american city and to go to the county see, what do you see? the courthouse. we take for granted, but the whole world really revolves around the courthouse. those are the two, as far as i'm concerned, to missing letters in that country still, a police force which does not terrorize his own population, and a judiciary that kind of educate land and water disputes. >> jack, do we bring you in on this now? ask you for your assessment. now 10 years on, mostly strategic mission then and what we find ourselves today relative to that? >> no, thank you very much. doug may very interesting statement when he defined the special forces mission is to make the country unsafe for the taliban. some of you whom i've met here, i've made the point that the word david means student of islam. and so a group of tel aviv are called taliban. so if we define our mission is to make at this place unsafe for the belie

there was a moment a year or so ago when speaking to the troops in helmand province dr. stanley mcchrystal reflected on the intensity of emotions brought on by the memory of the attacks of 9/11. he told his audience i'm sure you can recall what you are doing were doing on that fateful day and seizing the moment he turned to to a soldier nearby and set out that you remember what you are doing on 9/11. the soldier replied, yes, sir. i was having my braces removed. he was a young kid then and a wise veteran now. american forces have been there for 10 years. i think we ought to have to start at the beginning and remind us doug if you will "horse soldiers" is all about the competence of these great special forces soldiers working with the northern alliance in the earliest days. why do you walk us through that moment? what was the sense of mission and how was that the mission carried out? >> the sense of mission in 2001 in september and october of that year was very broad. many of us may know that the united states's total response to those attacks of 9/11 were initially just

saturday during a strike against insurgents who were attacking coalition troops in afghanistan's helmandarab league plans to ask the united nations to grant full membership to a palestinian state based on israel's 1967 borders. the group of 22 arab states will make the formal request at the next u.n. session in september. in a speech last week, president obama said the united states will, quote, stand up against efforts to single israel out of the u.n. or in any international forum. >>> sarah palin is wheeling into washington today. the former republican vice presidential candidate is kicking off an east coast bus tour that coincides with the annual rolling thunder motorcycle ride. the tour fuels speculation that palin will join

callahan was killed on saturday during combat operations in helmand province in afghanistan.e was buried this afternoon. back to you. >> thank you: so just what went into yesterday's operation that resulted in the death of osama bin laden? joining us now is retired air force colonel randy larson. he is the former chairman of military strategy and operations at the national war college and he's a senior fellow at the homeland security policy institute at georgia washington university. colonel larson, thank you so much for coming in here today. >> good to be here. >> as someone who flew hundreds of combat missions, we are talking 400 or so and as a former intelligence officer, how do you rate this operation? >> well, i think most american public do not understand how incredibly successful this was. they watch movies and it's easy for bruce willis and all those folks to do it. this was real. there are so many things that can go wrong and everything i have seen so far, the planning, the execution was perfectly done, even when they had a helicopter have a mechanical problem, they

those who gave their lives on the battlefield of our times, from normandy to manila, inchon, baghdad, helmands around the world -- deserts, city streets around the world. what bonds this chain together across generations is the chain of honor and sacrifice, not only a common cause. our country's it causes -- country's cause. but also a spirit captured in the book of isiah, mailed to me by the family a second lieutenant. "when i heard the voice of the lord sing who shall i send, who shall go for us? i said, here i am, send me." that is what we memorialize today, that spirit that says "send me, no matter the mission. send me, no matter the risk. send me, no matter the sacrifice." the patriots we memorialize today sacrificed not only all they had, but all the whatever no. they gave of themselves until they had nothing more to give. it is natural when we lose someone we care about to ask why it had to be them, why my son, why my sister, why my friend, why not me. these are questions that cannot be answered by us. but on this day, we remember that it is on our behalf that they gave our lives -- th

. >> we've broken them, the momentum of the insurgency and even in kandahar and central helmand, theymoment to step up our efforts to reach a political settlement. that talibans must make a decisive split from al qaeda, give up violence, and join a political process that will bring lasting peace to that country. we are agreed to give this the highest priority in the months ahead. second, we must reach a conclusion to the arab-israeli peace process. i congratulated the president on his recent speech on the middle east which was bold, visionary and set out what it need in the clearest possible terms. and and to tear against israelis and the restoration of dignity to the palestinians. two states, living side by side, and in peace. yes, the road has been and will be long and arduous. the prize is clear. conclude the peace process and you don't just bring security to the region, you deny extremists one of the most profound and enduring recruiting sergeants. weakening the calling and crippling their calls. that is why whatever the difficulties we must continue to press for a solution. our t

one of the tribal elders in a very rural area of afghanistan, in a part in the marine zone in helmandprovince said, i don't care about electricity. i would just like to have freshwater and i would like to be able to take the stuff that we grow, my villagers grow, i like to be able to take it to a market and sell it. now that is pretty significant. i mean that's pretty visceral. so i think back to your issue, back to your question, i think a strong, local government with responsible leaders and the ability to provide security. and what is that? that's the police force, a credible police force, that's honest, that has the best interests of the, of the local community at heart. and then a credible military that should something happen, that they will step in and reinforce the police or they will step in and do the bidding of the nation. that's pretty simple. to me that's the fundamental basics of counterinsurgency and it is not nation-building. we're not trying but i'm saying that's what's important for afghanistan. and i'll tell you what. from what i saw and what i think, you know, mich

those who gave their lives on the battlefield of our times, from normandyo manila, inchon, baghdad, helmandound the world -- desert city streetsround the world. what bonds this chain together across generations is the chain of honor and sacrifice, not only a common cause. our country's it causes -- country's cause. but also a spirit captured in the book of isiah, mailed to me by the famil a second lieutenant. "when i heard the voice of the lord sing who shall i send, who shall go for us? i said, here i am, send me." that is what we memorialize today, that spirit that says "send me, no matter the mission. send me, no matter the risk. send me, no matter the sacrifice." the patriots we memorialize today sacrificed not only all they had, but all the whatever no. they gave of themselves until theyad nothing more to give. it is natural when we lose someone we care about to ask why it had to be them, why my son, why my sister, why my friend, why no me. these are questions that cannot be answered by us. but on this day, we remember that it is on our behalf that they gave our lives -- their lives. w

after nato apologized for an air strike that killed nine civilians, mostly women and children in the helmandrovince. >>> in serbia, ratko mladic's lawyer has requested that the former bosnian serb general be reexamined by a team of specialies. mladic's lawyer says the 69-year-old former commander is not healthy enough to face charges of genocide at the international criminal tribunal at the hague. the chief prosecutor denies that mladic is in poor health saying he's been lively and joking since taken into custody. mladic was captured last week after hiding for more than 15 years. he's accused of overseeing the massacre of nearly 8,000 muslim men and boys in 1995. >>> prince william and his new wife catherine duchess of cambridge are heading state side next month for their first royal tour. details of their 11-day north america trip just came out today. according to people, the royal couple will spend most of their time in canada before flying to los angeles on july 8th where they will promote britain to hollywood. >>> online hackers have pirated the pbs website. hackers posted a false story