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(CBS) On the brink of Iraq's historic election on Jan. 30, Correspondent Dan Rather reports from the "Triangle of Death," a region notorious for attacks on Iraqi and multi-national forces. It's been a difficult mission for Sgt. Kevin Lewis and the rest of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. They travel constantly on dangerous roads: 31 men have died here and more than 300 have been injured by roadside bombs, hidden by an enemy they rarely see. We were heading to a remote outpost in the town of Ludifayah. Ten of the men based there have died. Still, these Marines insist...

Just two days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a suspected killer and known foreign terrorist was captured in Dallas, Texas. The U.S. government was aware the man had received rigorous training in a foreign military and was a member of a covert paramilitary organization that already had murdered dozens, if not hundreds of people, including military officers, high ranking police officials and democratically elected politicians. President Kennedy speaking in Fort Worth the morning of Nov. 22, 1963 Amazingly, according to the authors of an explosive new book promising to unravel the 40-year mystery of who killed JFK,...