stop growing opium poppies. this is lieutenant colonel cal worth, the commanding officer of the first battalion sixth marines. how do you think it went yesterday, colonel? things have begun relatively slowly but it is a start and nothing happens fast in afghanistan. geraldo: nothing happens fast that afghanistan, indeed. i was here with these marines six years ago. let s take a look at some of what they did yesterday. today is the first day so we are giving them about two to three weeks to do it, to cut the opium and then they come back and we give them cash for it and also see if they want to grow something else because it is banned in the whole country now so we are giving the alternative to choose to grow different crops. geraldo: just to give you an idea of how pervasive it is and how daunting a task, i want to show you how prevalent it is. just in the shadow of the united states forces here to try to wean the population off the addictive drug i want you
geraldo: in the ten years we have been covering the war this this region we have seen the devastation that those improvised explosive devices can do. in the early days we drove around in open topped vehicle then unarmorred humvees and now they have massive vehicles but still the improvised explosive devices most of which are made with ammonium nitrate do inflict considerable damage. you can see how tearing fenders apheter entire front part of the cab bin structure there. other vehicles as we move on, broken axels, other damage to the front. you can see them lying here or there. this one got torn up pretty well by a substantial explosion. but what you don t see is damage inside the cabin itself. that is why these marines drive around in these heavily armored vehicles now. this is why we have essentially defeated the ied as a weapon
about them being here in marjah and you let them go from there. geraldo: you know, the catholic church specifically, ladies and gentlemen, as you know has been rocked by some scandal in the recent weeks and months, but something has happened that i think will kind of infuse a lot of believers in a very positive way. here is kimberly now with our own father morris about something that the history channel has done kind of to bring religion and maybe myth and ledge end int legend into d fact. a new history channel documentary may bring us the chosest we have come to seeing what jesus christ looked like. ray downing constructed a 3d image from an ancient cloth known as the shroud believed to be the burial cloth of christ. it took six months to recreate
travel two kilometers or even right down the road. geraldo: how many of you were at one point in your life members of the taliban? gll these people never been with talib and never support talib. they hurt us and damage our houses and damage our economy but sometime we don t have a choice. they force us. they came to our house to feed them, of course, we don t have the choice. they have the guns and they have the power, yes, we did but in the present, no, we didn t help them and we are not with them and we never be taliban or a part of taliban. geraldo: in some ways the fight against the opium is going to be tougher than the fight against the taliban. you drove them out in four days. how long do you think it will be to rid these people of this habit? i can t give you an exact
headed your way? not too much. just enough to keep me inside my vehicle. and keep your attention. geraldo: and what kind of injuries did the marines suffer here. in. a wide array ranging from lassations to the chest all the way to concussion grade three concussions and each of them just as severe as the other. geraldo: and how is the morale, colonel worth, the commanding officer of the first battalion, now is the morale? the morale is good. they have done a fantastic job of keeping their thoughts positive and realizeing that we are doing something important for the people of afghanistan. geraldo: the way we fought this war before this surge was from the air and, you know, long distance and i think it did a lot to alienate the local people. is different now? though we use m raps. geraldo: the big armored vehicles. absolutely. we use those for protection when we have to be on the roads we spend much of our time