i m harris falkner, time for the top of the news, three executives at jp morgan chase expect today leave their jobs this week according to a report with the wall street journal, the latest fallout in a trading blunder, that the ceo and jamie dimon called a terrible mistake, and president obama s counterterrorism advisor visiting yemen today meeting with the leader of that country and currently battling with al-qaeda insurgents, coming after washington says it foiled an airliner bomb plot through the yemen based affiliate the. and in afghanistan, a former taliban leader turned peace negotiator assassinated by unidentified gunman, it happened in the capital city before the security transition and the 70-year-old man was a key member of the high peace council, a group responsible for the group process.
taliban leaders say all peace talks with the united states is over. brand new hour, i m bill hemmer. good morning. this comes amid protests after an american soldier allegedly murdered 16 afghan civilians. we ve been telling you about thatful. bill: secretary of defense trying to defuse the matter, but things are deteriorating on the inside. conor powell live out of kabul with more. reporter: bill, secretary of defense panetta wraps up his two-day trip here, but it concludes with big bombshells. hamid karzai announcing today he wants u.s. troops to pull out of the small villages and small combat military bases and just go back to the large military bases here. he also wants to see an end of night raids, and he wants the security transition to speed up here. he wants afghan troops to take the lead far sooner than most people think they re ready to, but president karzai says in the
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security transition to afghan forces. intelligence officials in pakistan say four suspected u.s. missile stricks have taken out 11 militants in northern waziristan today. they targeted two vehicles and hit the same home twice in an hour. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad made his first visit to lebanon today. underscoring the growing power of tehran and the lebanese ally hezbollah. he was welcomed by thousands of supports throwing rose petals. they say support underminds lebanese sovereignty. now to the story that captivated much of the world the last two days, if not the last two plus months. the celebrations and the rescues have gone on for 18 hours in chile, as the miners returned to the surface after more than two months underground. correspondent steve harrigan is live on the scene with an update tonight as we wait for the 27th miner.
hearing from general petraeus and from secretary gates is condition-based. and if we re not ready to withdraw at that point, they ll have to take a different tack. yeah. and i think, you know, in light of the horrific attacks, what we saw in iraq today and the terrible tragedy of it, and it s obviously disappointing to see, you know, what exactly happened six months ago when we had very peaceful and participatory elections in iraq, the fact that we still to this point do not have a sustainable power-sharing agreement amongst all the different parties in iraq, obviously, it s disappointing and disheartening. but at the same time i think it s also important to remember where we were in iraq and where we are now in iraq. you know, iraq is on the cusp of some pretty remarkable breakthroughs. not only do we have the military transition and the security transition as the military goes from operation iraqi freedom to now operation new dawn, we also have iraq with their first chance to h