cnn's nick payton walsh is in kabul this morning with details. ll us about this agreement and why it's so important to the afghan people. >> reporter: one of the key tactics that u.s. special forces and isaf forces here is hunting the insurgency at night range. the intrusion is into their homes in the dead of night. perhaps understandable. this is the deal that's been worked on for weeks. this is also months of anger from the afghan government. under it effectively formalizes an afghan official committee. afghan officials look over u.s. intelligence about a target, and they want to send special forces against. they provide approval for that, which constitutes some kind of legal authority here in afghanistan that was a key condition of the afghan authorities. then afghan commandos are in the lead on this operation. they're the ones who knock down the door, and we understand that this is pretty much the practice in the past few months, and we continue to be formalized and that american commandos, isaf commandos won't go inside the compound or the ho

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. >>> we'll go now to afghanistan and cnn's nick payton walsh. want to know what you're hearing on the ground now. >> reporter: this really comes after a very, very difficult three months for the nato campaign here. we do more often than i'm sure the general would like receive statements from him apologizing for the misconduct or alleged misconduct of his troops here. as barbara says, marines urinating on bodies, and the staff sergeant. so a negative tone for the presence here. yet to see how afghans will react to these images. publishing only two of 18 allegedly from two separate incidents not far from where i'm standing. in which these two suicide -- instances in which suicide bombers remains were as you saw held up almost astro if is by these u.s. soldiers. and with these incidents coming to light, there are concerns that they're the tip of an iceberg and certainly afghan's questioning the level of conduct and professionalism of some americans on the ground here. it is actually the case that this number of pictures seem to emerge towards the en

nick payton walsh is following the story from kabul.im what will happen to osama bin laden's wives after they serve their time. >> reporter: erin, yemen has made it clear it will take back one of bin laden's yemeni wives but saudi arabia has not given that many welcoming noises yet. within two weeks they will be deported as pakistan tries to flush out these remaining traces of bin laden's time hiding out in what appears now to be at least four of its major cities. one of the wives' testimony suggesting that he had been there for about a decade, two cities in the north, one of which he fathered two children and he also fathered two further children. even though pakistan is expelling these women, has torn down the house where he hid, these questions remain as to how it was it possible the world's most wanted man hid inside pakistan undetected for nearly ten years. >>> now to syria where rebels will soon get their first international assistance, and this is very interesting. it's in the form of cash from some gulf nations. for its part, th

i asked nick payton walsh in kabul what the strategy is. >> reporter: you heard president karzai demandg up the troops leaving. we've been to one village in the east where the united states teamed up with villagers who were hostile to the insurgency, arming them, paying them to keep that area safe. now it's worked for the past few months. the taliban aren't in presence there and it has been relatively peaceful but there are fears that this temporary measure may begin to fail if the insurgents choose to fight back in that area. if this local militia called the afghan local police don't get on with the afghan government that are supposed to be their masters and if u.s. troops aren't able to provide support because their numbers are increasingly dwindling out here in the east, erin. >> all right, nick patton walsh in afghanistan. >>> there's a possible break in one of the most high-profile unsolved missing cases in the united states. 6-year-old etan patz disappeared on his way to the school bus two blocks away from his home here in new york city. a new lead has investigators searching for

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nick payton walsh with the nato forces in eastern afghanistan. forces for being able to stop these i surgents but karzai is blaming my tow for the attacks. >> reporter: let's get clear what president karzai said. he said an intelligence that should be investigated and wanted to be particularly cautious at looking at nato's role in that. nato praising the swift response of the afghan security forces which key in that minds the eventual drawdown of the nato troops but it took 18 hours for the explosions, for this gunfire to stop ringing out across the central part of kabul that should be safest. more troubling details emerging what may have been this intelligence failure. this attack is similar to another one that happened six months ago, both targeted nato hq and embassies and using abandoned building to launch themselves from and seeming to involve militants from the sophisticated hakani network. many questions today as the dust settles. >> so who is behind these attacks? >> reporter: many different questions about that. the taliban have claimed

elsewhere in afghanistan our nick payton walsh is taking us on a joint u.s.fghan air assault south of kabul. they're on a hunt for militants in taliban territory. >> reporter: a last stand in a taliban heartland. americans and afghans launch an air assault before dawn into a remote hostile district they have not set not in for six months. an incredibly flat, exposed space about a mile away from a village where there are two high value targets the americans want to arrest. america's withdrawal is meant to awaken afghan forces to take over these manhunts, but as they push into the village in search of the american's most wanted local militant, the afghans seem pretty casual. some doors stay locked. their prey likely vanishing when they hear helicopters. >> they hear the birds coming in and they usually flee immediately. >> reporter: as they search a former weapons cache, they become the targets. >> where is it at? where is it at? >> no [ muted ] clue. >> we got -- >> reporter: clearly insurgents are keen to defend this building or at least attack the americans

i want to bring in payton walsh in kabul, afghanistan, nick. what happened? >> it appears the suicide bomber, accord to a statement from the palace here was using a vehicle to carry this exceptionally large charge up to a vegetable market where troops were on patrol. you say one after sgan official saying three american soldiers were taken away from the site of that explosion and wounded. brooke? >> there seems to be an up surge of attacks in afghanistan. are there concerns the taliban right now are just getting started? you know, as the country ced hing into the spring fighting season. there could be so many more. >> the concern about this is it happened in the north and the north has traditionally not been a hot bed of violence, although recently there's been pockets of 258 been a control there and con conner ises that violence could spread. worsening in that direction. you're absolutely right. some months ahead, traditional fighting season. united nations and other people tallying violence here say violence is on the rise. this is a key, it's all about the