across kabul afghans tell us they're resilient. having lived through 30 years of war.ut back at the bread shop, abdul mainer reminds us even if they're not target, ordinary afghans are collateral damage. >> the wealthy can afford private security, nice hotels have check points. what can you do to try to protect yourself? i have only god he replies. seth stone, cbs news, kabul. >> ahead the debate over new generation of nuclear power plants. that story is next. [ female announcer ] think all bodywashes moisturize the same? challenge that thinking with olay. ♪ there's more than a jar of olay moisturizers in every bottle of olay bodywash to leave your skin feeling soft and smooth. with olay. really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have? all four of us, together? 24. he's low fat, too, and has 5 grams of sugars. i'll believe it when i--- [ both ] oooooh... what's shakin'? [ female announcer ] as you get older, protein is an important part of staying active and strong. new ensure high protein... fifty percent of your daily value of protein. low fat and five grams of sugars.

the next province in line includes capital of kabul.doane took a look at the streets. >> reporter: in kabul, even when danger isn't apparent, reminders of it are everywhere. many westerners like us work in guarded compounds, walled off from the bustling streets of the capital. we're told not to spend more than 10 or 15 minutes, for instance, in a market like this one, because we just attract too much attention. the fear, of course, is car bombs or kidnappers. baking in an oven, abdul tells us, safety is always on his mind. what do you worry about? i'm worried about the explosions, he says. suicide bombers are killing a lot of innocent people. in fact, attacks against afghan civilians are up 15% in the last six months. with nearly 1500 killed since january. even something as simple as a trip to the grocery store here in kabul is much more complicated. here at this market, they wand you, they check for weapons, and someone monitors through the door here. that's because in january a suicide bomber killed 14 at the supermarket, popular with

2008 and one-third of 2009 and a big chunk of 2009 and last year i was there for the july for the kabul conference and i was there in december about seven months pregnant working on maternal health stories. >> host: that wasn't a great way to engage with the women because of common experience. now your career as a political television producer for abc. how did you make the transition from that to writing this book? >> guest: very carefully. [laughter] i left abc, and i left abc. you've had a lot of my former boss is on and i know your colleagues at c-span since i was watching, and i left because i knew that there were so many stories i wanted to do that i wouldn't get to do the way the news places were going, and i really care that economic development stories and under told stories, and the stories of the women in war or just almost never told. if i save war story you think about the west which are all the incredible books but the lead out so many people. and these women are the ones who make sure there's a community to go back to when the war is over. >> host: and is camilla her real

the key ally was assassinated in his home west of kabul today. this man is the former of the province and a key ally of the karzai government. now, as you say, this is the second one in just a few days. of course, earlier the half-brother was assassinated in kandahar, southern afghanistan. all of this comes, of course, as we are seeing the first u.s. troops begin to come home from the war zone. we are seeing the beginning of the turnover to afghan security control in afghanistan and tomorrow general david petraeus scheduled to give up his command to the next general coming in from the united states to command the war. things are moving very rapidly in afghanistan but the security situation certainly remains very tenuous. fred? >> barbara starr in washington, thanks so much. let's go to kabul where we find david. what are you learning about this assassination? >> reporter: >> all right. it looks like we still need to work on audio problems there. we'll try to check back in with david ariosto when we can from kabul. >>> in the meantime, on to londo

. >> reporter: in kabul republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham called the strategy too risky and say it could put american troops and the plan in jeopardy. the plan calls for pulling out 10,000 troops by the end of this year with another 23,000 gone by the end of next summer. >> i hope that it will work out but it is certainly deprives us of the necessary troops that we need for the second fighting season. >> the obama administration is standing by its plan saying successes on the ground especially the killing of osama bin laden have made it possible. >> al qaeda is under more pressure than at any time since 9/11. >> reporter: still this deadly taliban raid on a hotel in kabul last week shows insurgents aren't willing to go quietly. >> if we don't succeed here and the taliban comes back into power we'll be attacked again. >> reporter: while the debate continues, american troops are carrying on with their mission preparing to hand over security back to the afghan people, the drawdown is set to begin this month. terrell, some initial diplomatic moves have been made to jumpstart

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defense secretary robert gates happened to be in kabul that day. he faced questions about civilian casualties, but maintained that a key insurgent had been killed. >> this is an individual who was responsible for organizing and orchestrating a number of attacks here in kabul and in northern afghanistan. this is the first that i had heard that civilians may have been killed, and we will certainly look into that. >> narrator: the military conducted a review of the operation. ten days later, a press release was issued. it said that the attack was "selective, surgical, and legitimate," but that the military "could not rule out the possibility of civilian casualties." we traveled to the remote corner of afghanistan where the strike took place and met with a group of survivors. ihsanullah is a schoolteacher who was there that day. >> narrator: these home videos show some of the election workers out campaigning. for some of their journey before the strike, they had a police escort, out of concern that the taliban might attack them. >> narrator: ihsanullah

josh a senior advisor to the afghan president has been assassinated by the taliban in the capital kabul one of the country's lawmakers was also killed in the attack das come less than a week after hama karzai is half brother who ran the south of the country was gunned down the taliban is stepping up its assault on afghan officials as nato combat troops begin their withdrawal from the war zone but u.s. intervention expert stephen leatherman says washington will want to keep its grip on i'm ganna stand because waging war is a looker to. if i'm a. president out on the street with a small security detail not be practical a marine division maybe i c m you wouldn't last five minutes the resistance if any want to liberate the country they'll take any opportunity they care to get any official any level in any time not only other one hundred thousand u.s. troops but both thirty and forty thousand other troops here are well over one hundred thousand private security contractors you may never hear is discussed in the major media so combat forces may come out of private security forces may know whe

too divided untrained and ill equipped to fend off the insurgency by themselves jason reports from kabul. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall lucky for them this is the kabul military training center in the bullets being fired blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern province one of afghanistan's most violent corners. but we must push them hard so they can perform under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way its ranks have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to beat back the taliban led insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity then in yarmouth we are old brothers and we are all called by one name. by the call of duty has also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of woman soldiers has just graduat

implying that he controlled what he actually controlled with kabul and. apparently they still thought i mean he even when for example they have these elections that he appears to win although of course it's disputed i mean he only travels around the courtesy of nato forces whereas other kind of it's can't get around in the same way so it does appear to be extremely limited and it's also repeals that he's had to do with former warlords so the power is curtail that way but above all he does seem to be entirely dependent on nato and after all if you think about it he was picked almost exactly ten years ago by the united states to be the interim president and unless the united states was incredibly farsighted to pick the one who the afghans would have chosen unless that's true you have to assure him that he remains seen as being the man the americans picked ten years ago ok jim brann from the stop of all coalition many thanks. meanwhile the change at the top the nato in afghanistan with general david petraeus. is director of the cia he's being replaced by gen

we're getting an exclusive look inside that deadly attack, by terrorists at a luxury hotel in kabul. an american who was there, having dinner with his family hen it all unfolded, had his cam are in hand. and tonight, he shows abc's's nk schifrin, what he captured. >> reporter: it started as a serene tuesday night in kabul. ali omar, that's him there, filmed his family joking around. they sat outside the intercontinental hotel. >> by the poolside, having dinner. >> reporter: then, the shots started. first, in the distance. then, a little closer. and then, just as that police officer there, is walking away. >> they killed him. up close. after they hit him, they turned around, just started spraying. >> reporter: ali runs throughgh the dark. still filming. >> i said my prayers. if i die, i die. i'm watching the guy. he's just shooting in the crowd. i'm staring at him. if i can see him, he can see me. i ran and jumped the wall. there were about 16 of us on the other sid. >> reporter: they waited there. that's his father. that's his cousin. nobody helped him. >> the cops that were there, t

things that that happened but i don't often see that extremity but you do for example when i was in kabul i went to the self immolation hospital where because women are suffering certain match within their homes they has been zones they try and turn themselves their poor petrol on themselves and they try commit suicide in that way so there's definitely violence against women and we started talking about this story you said you saw it all started when time magazine told you to go to kabul and take eighteen eighteen girls to eighteen people said so so you did all of them only eighteen you met only we did eighty stories eighteen portraits one of the success stories were there happy happy endings happy stories among mentally a photograph that oprah winfrey of afghanistan a photograph a woman who's a politician and wants to become the first sports minister to documentary filmmaker . years so i photographed a variety of different woman you know not all in a vulnerable situation so so there are a lot of happy women in a sense well they are women i think they come from more educated backgrounds t

from more educated backgrounds they're you know are having a very different life now and mainly in kabul yeah but a bit in the villages it's still now where they were it's what i believe or like i was just very to do whatever your parents or your husband knows you to do well i would imagine it's similar to that but i'm not saying that every household sure is really is violent as you mentioned like twelve or fourteen she was we when she was given right to do two to two to the future has been so this is this is the age where when the girls are usually you know less and less to settle the house is just criminal disappearance and usually they go the very get where they were fifteen sixteen think it's a bit older year old gee ok now listen to. your previous sort of pictures before you did they have again series was about the slums in south africa is that true it's about so we're younger so where do you do that how do you consider yourself like a social photographer a social campaign or it also was just an assignment as you know so return really came about the project on the township i don't c

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there are checkpoints all across kabul.on to pull people out of vehicles, to frisk them and search the vehicles themselves but as you can see, it's incredibly uncommon to search under a turban. to remove a turban in public would be considered an insult. it was an explosive-laden turban that killed the kandahar mayor yesterday. and just last week, koofi herself was invited to a gathering where two people were killed. have you changed any way that you go about life because of these threats? >> i did a little bit. but, you know, when it comes to assassination and planned killing, nothing can protect you. >> reporter: guards stand by her front gate and she admits sometimes she even travels disguised in a burka. >> i know what i'm doing can make a difference for my future and for my daughters' future and for other women and children of this country. then it's worth sacrificing one life. >> reporter: a sacrifice that's become disturbingly familiar here. seth doane, cbs news, kabul. >> schieffer: back home, there has been another

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claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior adviser in the capital kabul along with one of the country's m.p.'s local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack. the murders come less than a week after how many cars eyes half brother seen as the most powerful figure in southern afghanistan was gunned down the taliban is stepping up its assaults on afghan officials as nato troops begin to withdraw on sunday the alliance handed over control of the first of seven designated areas to local forces but anti-war activist brian becker says the wave of afghanistan's summations only proves that the us has achieved nothing during its war there. when by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the taliban but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assass

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the situation at the kabul bank has been an appalling situation. we now have it moving towards a solution because there will be a forensic audit and recapitalization of the bank but we need to put in place procedures within the afghan government so there isn't the level of corruption and waste of money that there has been. >> i fully accept the prime minister's argument that by 2014 -- he can't emphasize how many troops are there. i am surprised he can be so certain it will be non-combat drones. if this anticipates the next year is not as positive as he thinks it will be surely it would not have our troops out in a situation where security cannot be secured and may require a combat role. >> let me turn to the hon. lady's question the other way around. if we are still in afghanistan in 2014, in the numbers we are now and in the combat role there will be something fundamentally wrong with the strategy we are pursuing. the point is we have a program, we have a plan. involved the buildup of the afghan national security forces which is going well ended

young army that still has much to prove before it can stand on its own feet jason want to live in kabul for a time. a major terror plot hatched near moscow as before by russian security services police have detained a group of four people from the north caucuses who are allegedly planning the attack our correspondent in a culture of in the caucuses has got the latest. well all the members of the group that was detained by russian special forces were originally from the north caucasus regions and they were planning an attack in crowded areas as well as the transport hubs of the moscow region now special forces found guns explosives maps and schedules all of these planned attacks also old as the detained people have can fast and police other people there are believed to be linked to the planned attack were also found now president means visit has ordered an urgent investigation and once those who are responsible for the failed attack to be severely punished now since the start of this yeah there has been a number of terror raids and despite the fact that dozens of terrorists were killed d

claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior adviser in the capital kabul along with one of the country's impedes local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack the murders come less than a week. rather around the south of the country was gunned down the taliban stepping up its assault on afghan officials as nato combat troops begin to withdraw. there the alliance handed over control of the first of seven designated areas to local forces but on the war activity brown told the trail the military base is a big left behind. i would question to what extent they really want to leave clearly they have to present themselves as leaving whether they really intend to leave i think you can gauge by for example the amount of construction that's going on at places. nato bases at places like kandahar about graham and so on which look very permanent and involve hundreds of millions of dollars but certainly some process is going on and it may end up in a withdrawal or something that we could recognizably call a withdrawal but comp

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