live from america s news headquarters i m marianne rafferty. texas representative ron paul winning a straw poll of social conservatives that was taken at the values voters summit in washington saturday. paul taking home 37% of the vote. herman cain coming in second with 23% and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum rounded out the top three with 16%. texas governor rick perry and representative michele bachmann each got 8%. and president obama urging voters to pressure congress to pass his $447 billion jobs bill. in his weekly address the president saying the bill will give the economy the jolt it needs. he is also challenging any lawmaker who would vote against it. in the republican response, south dakota senator called the president s plan more of the same failed strategy. the senate will likely vote on the jobs bill next week. and several thousand protesters marching peacefully from wall street to new york city s washington square park
organization al-qaeda. under the leadership of osama bin laden and ayman.n ayman chronicles the rise of the radical islam in his books blow the house down. he and bin laden got together and focused on the african bombings. 7 august 1998. u.s. embacies in tanzania and conditionia bombed simultaneously, killing hundreds. the cole. 17 sailors were killed when the destroyer was attack on 12 october 2000 during a port call in yemen. they vaulted to the top of the terrorism ladder because they are so violent. the randomness of the bin laden
oliver: in april 2008, the 24th marine expeditionary unit or meu deployed to southwest afghanistan under the command of colonel pete petronzio. probably one of the most powerful forms of war fighting organizations that has ever been created in america. oliver: lieutenant henderson led the marines of 24 m.e.u. it takes a ground combat and adds to it an aviation combat element. in other words, everything the marine corps has they kind of give me my little slice of it. that is what we call a m.e.u. oliver: the marines were given the mission of bringing security to places in afghanistan s province. the taliban realized it was
the scene. despite the i.e.d. attack the marines return right here to the same area, 80 purpose of these patrols is to collect intelligence and convince the local population that their best hope for security and reconstruction is with the coalition. the kids love to run up, expecting candy and whatnot. the local people once they see we are not there to harm them they will offer up everything they own to help us fight the cause. the locals tell us how things are going and what they need from us which is usually they just want to live their lives and what they can do to help us. people are calling me which means where is your doctor where it your doctor and we give out whatever we did k. i m biased obviously but marines in general are well
people. oliver: i m oliver north and this is a special episode of war stories. coming to you from afghanistan. for over 2,000 years, this rugged country has been the crossroads of empires and civilizations from alexander the great to the imperial expansion of old europe to the soviet invasion of 1979, foreign armies have marched across this forbidding and unforgiving land. by 9/11/01 afghanistan was ruled by islamic jihaddists. this was haven from which al-qaeda strucking america. join us for this special look into the heroic battle for a new afghanistan.