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Dec. 3, 2007

Mike Huckabee

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is now looking strong in Iowa, where the candidate for the Republican presidential nomination is leading in the polls. The Des Moines Register reports Huckabee ahead with the backing of 29 percent of probable Republican voters, over Mitt Romney's 24 percent. This is a big turnaround for the Baptist preacher -- May polls in that key state put him at the back of the pack, with only 4 percent of the vote. ABC's John Donvan spent the day with Huckabee on the campaign trail in Iowa.

Afghanistan Update

Dramatic footage shot by journalists embedded with the 2nd Platoon of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team shows American troops being set up for fatal ambushes after meeting with village elders -- elders who are often suspected of tipping off Taliban fighters to their whereabouts. While the soldiers struggle to win the "hearts and minds" of these villagers, Taliban and al Qaeda fighters have women and children sit on the roofs of buildings so the soldiers can't return fire. A new ABC News poll released today shows that despite missions like these, Afghan's disapproval of U.S. efforts in their country is on the rise. ABC's Brian Ross reports.

The video was shot by Vanity Fair contributing editor Sebastian Junger and Vanity Fair photographer Tim Hetherington on assignment for Vanity Fair and ABC News. Junger's article is in the January 2008 Vanity Fair, available on newsstands today.

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