ray suarez talked with her from kabul earlier today. >> suarez: jean mckenzie, welcome. recent action represented the largest nato one-day loss of life since last year. are taliban fighters were active than they've been in previous months? >> i think that would be a pretty accurate assessment. the taliban has declared an offensive called the victory. they have warned that they are going to step up their attacks. i think that that's what we're seeing. there were five nato soldiers killed the day before. at least three were killed today. so we've seen 20 soldiers lose their lives over the past three days. of course, there are more soldiers in afghanistan now than there were because of the u.s. troop surge. this is also contributing to the rise in casualties. we have more boots on the ground in more dangerous places. that, combined with taliban's new aggressiveness is making life very difficult. >> suarez: there was also violence around the peace jirga, the conference of 1500 tribal and political leaders that meant to discuss president karzai's efforts to reach out to the t