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LINSEY DAVIS (ABC NEWS) Good morning, Dan, Bianna. Good morning. DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening. And thanks for being here on a Saturday night. And we do begin with that fast-moving story overseas tonight. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RON CLAIBORNE (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Hi there. Hello, Bianna, and welcome to the pre-dawn patrol, David. Pretty early in the morning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening. After a tense week for the US in Afghanistan, there was another white-knuckle moment that nearly turned into a global crisis today. A truck, on the runway, just as Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was about to land and moments later, the driver, an Afghan who has worked as a translator for American forces, went up in flames. ABC's Nick Schifrin is in Kabul to tell us what he has learned about this latest drama today. Nick? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And now, we turn to the massacre in Afghanistan, the latest on that US soldier who put on night-vision goggles and shot whole families in a rampage. Today, we learned that the gunman turned himself into his fellow soldiers, with the haunting three words, I did it. We do not know his motive. We do not know his name. But ABC News has learned that military investigators are looking at the role alcohol may have played. And also today, the President vowed to get justice for the victims. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening. We begin tonight with the news of that American soldier accused of putting on his night vision goggles and then methodically going door to door, killing children and families in their homes in Afghanistan. It is a slaughter that threatens the already fragile future there. And tonight we are learning more about who he is. But we begin with ABC's Nick Schifrin in Kabul, an exclusive new video from that village in shock. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And we turn overseas now to Afghanistan. Where American troops are trying to decide who is friend, who is foe. Over the weekend, two Americans were murdered by an employee in one of the safest parts of that country. Tonight, questions being raised about what the US does in this next part of the ten-year war. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening on this Saturday night. And we begin here with that brazen pointblank attack on American officers in Afghanistan, assassinations carried out in what was supposed to be one of the safest places for US officers, a secure compound in Kabul. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Overseas now to Afghanistan, where the furor over Korans burned by the US military turned deadly today. Two US service members were killed and protests erupted across the country, despite a personal apology for the mistake from President Obama. ABC's Nick Schifrin covers the latest from Kabul tonight. Nick? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JAKE TAPPER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And news tonight from another war zone, Afghanistan. The United States has spent nearly $30 billion building up the Afghan army to take over the security there as US troops pull out. But new numbers revealed today show that many of those new Afghan troops are not sticking around to fight. ABC's Nick Schifrin is in Afghanistan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BIANNA GOLODRYGA (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) All right, Dan, we want to turn now to Afghanistan where an angry mob became violent on news that a controversial pastor in Florida burned a copy of the Koran. The mob stormed a UN compound and killed at least seven people. Here's Nick Schifrin. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And now to a serious problem for the American mission in Afghanistan. Our Nick Schifrin has gotten a hold of videos that seem to prove that the recent elections in Afghanistan were riddled with fraud. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And, it was a deadly day for the US military in Afghanistan. Nine Americans, Special Ops forces, were killed in the crash of a Blackhawk helicopter. The worst chopper disaster there in more than four years. But most of us cannot imagine what it takes to fly that machine in the mountains in a nasty storm. Nick Schifrin in Afghanistan on what went wrong today. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BIANNA GOLODRYGA (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) All right, Bill. Well, there's outrage around the world after the Taliban in Afghanistan claimed responsibility for killing 10 civilian medical workers in cold blood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And we turn to Afghanistan now, where a massive manhunt widened today for two American sailors, missing in a region infested with insurgents. But tonight, the Taliban are claiming they know exactly where those sailors are. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SHARYN ALFONSI (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We turn next to Afghanistan, where it has been a tough day for US forces. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And there are new questions tonight in Afghanistan over American taxpayer money and whether some of that money is landing in the hands of the Taliban. Huge convoys with supplies for US troops there have to travel through dangerous parts of that country. And who gets paid to protect those convoys? That's what Congress is now asking and so is our Nick Schifrin in Afghanistan tonight. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And now, a truly surprising story about Afghanistan. Imagine that country as rich as Saudi Arabia with all its palaces, yes, Afghanistan. The pentagon confirmed buried treasure there, mineral reserves worth $1 trillion. What could this mean for the future? Our Nick Schifrin has been living in the region for three years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Meantime, in Afghanistan tonight, US troops continue a major offensive after President Obama's troop surge there. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JUJU CHANG (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) It just makes me happy to see all the kids in the studio, right? Good morning again, Robin and George. Good morning, everyone. We continue following breaking news this morning. It's being called the most important capture of a Taliban leader since the war in Afghanistan began. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) The CIA is vowing to avenge the deaths of seven agents who were killed at one of its bases in a volatile region of Afghanistan. Tonight, we have new evidence that the bomber was someone the agency knew. Nick Schifrin has the story from Kabul. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We're gonna turn now to Afghanistan this evening where President Hamid Karzai today named a new cabinet for his second term. He's been under enormous pressure from the White House to end the corruption that has turned many Afghans against his government. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But we begin this week, begin today with a pivotal week for President Obama's foreign policy legacy. After months of deliberations, countless meetings, Mr. Obama will address the nation and lay out his plans for the war in Afghanistan. ABC's Rachel Martin has a preview of what we can expect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) So, a lot riding on this. And ABC's Nick Schifrin is in Kabul, Afghanistan with the latest this morning. Good morning, Nick. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And now, overseas to Afghanistan, where there are new developments tonight in a political drama that is seriously complicating President Obama's deliberations over whether to send in more American troops. The issue here is whether the current government is corrupt and whether the US should risk more military lives to support it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KATE SNOW (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Okay, Marysol. Let's turn overseas now to a crucial military offensive underway in Waziristan, that's in northwestern Pakistan, and it could have important implications for the US war effort in Afghanistan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening. It was a massive attack that could not have come at a more sensitive time. Just as President Obama is deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, or to scale back there, hundreds of militants stormed two US bases near the Pakistani border. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RON CLAIBORNE (ABC NEWS) Good morning, Bill and Kate. Good morning, everyone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KATE SNOW (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Okay. John Hendren, thanks. Let's go overseas now to a place with a long history of bloody conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) This week, the Obama administration is expected to release its new plan for dealing with what many people feel is the number one national security problem facing this country right now, what to do about Afghanistan and Pakistan. And tonight, there is new evidence that once divided Taliban factions are now uniting to fight the US. ABC's Nick Schifrin has this report tonight from Pakistan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And here's another huge challenge facing President Obama. What to do about Afghanistan, where, today, two American soldiers were killed while trying to diffuse a bomb in Helmand Province, which is a Taliban stronghold. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) The CIA is vowing to avenge the deaths of seven agents who were killed at one of its bases in a volatile region of Afghanistan. Tonight, we have new evidence that the bomber was someone the agency knew. Nick Schifrin has the story from Kabul. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And US convoys have become a prime target for al Qaeda militants on both sides of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Just this week, a convoy of a dozen military vehicles, many loaded with wheat for hungry people in Afghanistan, was hijacked. ABC's Nick Schifrin has traveled to the border area, where the situation is increasingly dangerous. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]