masri's city is becoming a fact. some 40,000 palestinians will live here.es here cost between $60,000 and $180,000. you can even get a mortgage. the first two sections, some 650 apartments are almost sold out. >> there's a movie theater museum library there's a hotel, there's a convention center. this is the gate. this is the one to the west. the one on the other side is gaza gate and then jerusalem gate. >> reporter: there's no tel aviv gate. >> no. >> reporter: it's all political symbolism. this is a palestinian family holding hands, united to protect the palestinian flag. it symbolizes their future and is everywhere on trucks, cranes, sending a message to the world and the jewish settlement about a quarter mile across the valley on land the palestinians call their own. the settlers here have mixed feelings about their new neighbors. >> i hope they'll have this good city and live there happily so maybe they won't be so antsy and so angry and maybe they'll also live in peace with us. that's what i hope for and pray for. but i think that we also should do i

if you look at where the population lives, you've got kabul, kandahar, masri, sharif, you know all the major urban areas, and ten roughly speaking within about 25 miles or so of highway 1 and highway 7, highway 4 and the other major lines of communication, that's where 80% of the population lives. that's where most of the afghan security forces have focused their effort in order to protect the population. so they're executing a full spectrum counterinsurgency, the afghans are, and their design, their purpose is to protect the majority of the population. and they have effectively done that in the first four-plus months of the fighting season in which they have literally been in the lead. if you look back to kind of the '01, post-9/11 period all the way to '06, i think it's fair to say that the united states and other members of the coalition were in the lead fighting, essentially, unilaterally a counterinsurgency operation. if you look about the 06-'07 time frame, we had at that time somewhere to the tune of about 100,000 or so afghan security forces. so we started fighting what we call