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during the height of the protests on friday. one of the men who organized it is the younger brother of arno osimon al says zari. i asked him if he organized this protest at the american embassy where they tore down the flag, ran up the infamous flag, chanted death to america and all the other things if he had seen this movie that allegedly caused all this automatic rage. he said, no, i haven t seen it but the mere title of it is so insulting is to warrant all of these protests. also he s talked a lot about the filmmakers behind this movie. he says he wants them tried before a sharia court, meaning under sharia law, an islamic court and if they do not repent for their making of the movie he would like to so them executed.
calls its life line, praises like kandahar, like zari, like argondab, these are not areas the taliban going to give up without a very tough fight. that s why we re seeing early on in the so-called surge and that s why generals say it s going to get worse before it gets better. you know what strikes me, jim, about this live shot here, i m looking at you standing there in kabul. things look seemingly so normal from the rooftop there. can you talk about what it s like on the ground, on the street? are shops open? is it a bustling, thriving loif there or not at all? reporter: it s absolutely a bustling, thriving life. and it is you can get a false sense of security if you re not an afghan. a year or two ago i would have gone with my fixer here, we would have gone to a local business center, sat down if a nice coffee shop and had a cappuccino and a coffee cake.
100,000 u.s. troops, mostly in the south. that s three times more than just a year ago. more troops, more casualties. it s compelling math. the other reason is that u.s. and nato forces unfllike in previous offenses, they re going for the jugular this time. they re going for the key staging areas, whether it s kandahar or zari, these are places where the taliban are staging, where they re xle collecting intelligence. they re not going to give the places up easily. that means huge resistance and more casualties as well. jim, i know you were just embedded for a few days. certainly you came across fire fights. what is that like? reporter: it s what is it like? it s a hard one to answer. i have been caught up in a number of ambushes. the one you snau this particular piece is something that was shot by a colleague, freelance cameraman who went out on the same patrol as we did two days
now u.s. troops were trying to push up a canal to talk to elders and locals in another village not too far, just up this canal. it s part of the engagement process. but as you saw in this video, fierce, fierce firefight started just about 200 or so meters from where u.s. troops, and where we left, the furthestmost outpost for the u.s. military in zari, the taliban literally rule everything outside the perimeter of this base here in zari. and the clearing process has to happen first before any of the engagement, the holding and the building, which is the key component to the strategy here, rick. rick: an up close an personal look at exactly how tough the job is on the ground there in afghanistan. conor powell, streaming live for us, glad you and your crew are okay, thank you very much for the report. jenna: this is incredible. we have a quick correction