against our troopers. obviously some still get injured, obviously they can be enormously frustrating and complicating to the mission because it takes time to clear them but when you look around at the damage that they do to the heavy metal and understand how few of our marines and gis, other gis are injured as a result of these explosions you can see how far we have come in protecting our troops from what was really the enemy s best weapon. thanks, geraldo. joining me now in the studio, retired u.s. army colonel david hunt. a lot of people want to know are our troops finally getting the resources and support that they need over there? absolutely. what geraldo is showing, the marines and army and special forces guys, we have been there nine years and we have been supplying them. one of the hardest places to fight in the world but they are getting the support they need.
conducting patrols and interaction with the population and that is where the war is going be won. geraldo: with shoe leather. craig has more on how we are phasing away from the air force kind of directed warfare to something much more personal and much more on the street. here is craig. one of the changing aspects of the war here in afghanistan under general stanley mcchrystal s new plan is to have more boots on the ground and less reliance on air support. i m with the air wing commander here at bagram airfield. how has your job changed? the job has just used the flexibility of military power to bring support to general mcchrystal and his directives. directives that have changed after a series of civilian casualties with errant air strikes. one came after aerial
time but it will take awhile for the population in marjah to realize there are other means to make money and feed their families and that takes a little time and it will take more than one planting season for them to be convinced that is possible. geraldo: yesterday, i spoke with your boss, the division commander, general brigadier general and he talked about the intimidation factor and something called night letters. here is general nicholson. geraldo: the governor spoke of the night letters and the fact that they come at night to intimidate after the marines leave. that is true. we are seeing some night letters. i don t know how prevalent it is but in some areas where we don t have elder buyin and i think what you saw today was reaching out to the elders and trying to gain their support. one thing we do know is if the elders support the governor we
afghanistan begs his people to support a coming storm. tonight, as our troops around the world celebrate easter sunday, we report from the forward marine base set in a sea of opium and intimidation. plus, they may be down in iraq but the enemy is not out. not yet. tonight the latest from the triple suicide bombings in baghdad. and, with the church under fire, spiritual support from across the centuries. by imtating those distortions we could take the shroud image and put it back into that shape and figure out what the face looked like. it gave us a blueprint geraldo is this what jesus looked like? what we do see is science showing us what this face on a shroud would look like would greater perfection. plus, is mommy in the coal mines? kimberly is on the case of the search for susan powell. and a political pillow fight? i ll let kimberly explain.
something like that out. but they are not going use that what he is saying now. you have one psychologist on the defense will say one way and the prosecution will say the other way, they like to take the children there to look for crystals and then you will be out. that that works both sides. but they will have other evidence. there is premeditation suggested there that he made the comment a year before his wife disappeared. thanks for being with us, always a pleasure and back to geraldo, live in afghanistan. geraldo: kimberly, that is not me but that is a member of the afghan army. they are allies, fighting for their own country and lieutenant colonel cal worth the commanding officer, how are the afghans perform nag combat. i think they have done well for themselves. we have been partnered with them since the first weeks here in afghanistan and we trained with them and prepared for this operation and now we are making