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Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:39 am**

A correspondent reports from Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province, where he was embedded for nearly three weeks in May and June with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. They are among 60,000 foreign troops on the ground in Afghanistan—more than half of them American.

PBS video
Afghanistan: The Forgotten War

Afghanistan: The Forgotten War - pt 2 of 3

Afghanistan: The Forgotten War - pt 3 of 3

Posted: **Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:17 pm**

"I will argue that the most serious threat to the US is not someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but our own fiscal irresponsibility."
Quote by David Walker, Comptroller General of the US, on CBS News in July 2007.