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Kwame Holman reports on the debate over guns in the cockpit. Then, Elizabeth Farnsworth leads a debate with Captain Stephen Luckey, Patricia Friend, and Michael Goldfarb.

British Royal Marines led a force of 1,000 allied troops in a new search of southeastern Afghanistan Thursday, with plans to destroy caves and bunkers and capture al-Qaida members who may still be in the region.