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interviews author gerry van dyke who spends forty five days in taliban captivity discloses what he thinks are the real reasons behind the u.s. military presence in afghanistan to us in just a few minutes. eleven years ago america began its war on terror and today in afghanistan a u.s. war continues to be waged by current guest has a very unique perspective on what has happened and continues to take place there joining me now to talk more about this topic is journalist and author jerry van dyke mr van dyke wrote a book called captive my time as a prisoner of the taliban thank you for joining our team thank you mr van dyck as i mentioned the war on terror began some eleven years ago and u.s.
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troops according to president barack obama are expected to fully withdraw by the end of twenty fourteen is that a sign of victory or defeat in the so-called war on terror i don't think it's a sign of either one i think it's a sign that the u.s. public is tired of this we initially went in for one specific reason and that was to dismantle the government of the taliban and to destroy al qaeda now people ask why are we still there how many are there under president bush in the early part of the obama administration we heard the numbers fifty there maybe fifty left in afghanistan are we there because a fifty fifty al qaeda members know it is morphed into something far larger than that is it because the former soviet union the former the what we'll call the stands it was because ten times you could stand because if. you could stand to have the largest untapped oil and natural gas reserves in the world if you talk to the
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afghans you talk the taliban they'll say oh that's why the united states wants to stay here people say it's because we want to surround iran we have bases in the gulf we have bases once before in iraq we certainly have them in afghanistan do we want afghanistan and pakistan not to go to war with one another neither the bush administration. no the obama administration has been straight with the american public about that and finally we are responsible long with other nations for creating the very people against whom we are now fighting these were all allies of the united states and its allies during the one nine hundred eighty s. we haven't been straight with the american public why what we have created which evolved in some cases into parts of which evolved into al qaeda and which are we trying to dismantle that can you tell me what the war on terror looks like through the eyes of the taliban. no one's ever asked me that very question very interesting question when i was a newspaper reporter enough ghana stand in the one nine hundred eighty s.
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new york times when we were tied with some of the members of the taliban today we called them the mujahideen which means holy warriors the taliban told me that we are the sons and the grandsons of the mujahideen when i was captured by the taliban and when i was in prison i had to listen for hours and hours and hours to taliban recruitment tapes and suicide recruitment tapes they talk of or they sing or chant of pashtoon history question geography pashtoon poetry this is a nationalist movement in their view they are simply trying to free themselves of foreign infidel invaders exactly like their fathers and grandfathers in order to have what they feel is a proper islamic government the taliban have become somewhat different. and that is it's a result of their ties to al qaeda. which is comprised of foreigners primarily
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arabs gyptian zx saudis chechens specs those from western china and even some from europe so it is a different entity entirely it is strictly interested in international jihad but the taliban have become because of their ties to al-qaeda and because of the twenty four seven news cycle they have become far more international but deep down in their hearts they're interested in one thing and that is an islamic government and a pashtoon islamic government now i don't want to make this too complicated for viewers but for them the posh tunes are afghanistan and they were at war before we came up with what we call the northern alliance the tajiks these are different ethnic groups in the north so this is also an element here there's an ethnic war at play here as much as anything else but deep down more than anything
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else they want a unified pashtoon land they want an afghanistan that is deeply muslim their interest ultimately is certainly not to attack the united states but because of their exposure to the international world now they're far more capable of trying to go across to soviet central asia to expand the perhaps into iran yeah that element is there you were how hostage forty five things by the taliban cracked what was that experience like. frightening. thing. what did you learn that you didn't know about. i thought initially i would be killed immediately but what i learned and what surprised me was that even though i was a prisoner. even though i lived in constant fear. that i was also
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treated with respect and i was treated as a guest. because and this gets to the heart of your question ultimately. tribal law pashtoon tribal law called question while the tribal codes take precedence over islam they deep down they are pashtoon they are members of tribes more than they are muslims and i think that's one reason why i survived. i'm not sure why i survived. and why did they let you go after forty five things i still don't know the answer in ten minutes i'm trying to find out i get many i hear i get many what do they say to you once they were unlocking the chains from your arm they said congratulations on escaping death i daresay this i will that about a year ago i got a call from someone
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a foreigner european and he asked me to go down to an apartment in new york two min there were questions from pakistan here by the invited by the state department on their way back to pakistan getting ready to catch a flight the very first question they asked me was. who kidnapped you. the taliban. or the government. my jailer said to me not a shot would be fired in afghanistan without the backing of the pakistani government so with the taliban in touch with the government of the government of pakistan no i was there did the government of pakistan in to intervene and ultimately save me. did july holiday in the hood county now. at work. that we are at war with. and with which i lived in the one nine hundred eighty s. and his name i use constantly to try and save me and who i was trying to get to
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because i thought by getting to a kani i could find out about al qaeda. did he ultimately hold on to that tribal law and say me i've heard so many different things that's why it's a very murky complicated place in the war is far far different from the way we perceive it in the media speaking of tribes what are u.s. intelligence capabilities among the tribes do you believe that washington has enough knowledge when it comes to the language and cultural experience of the particular reasons in afghanistan that need to be fully understood there was a general flynn i think his name was and this was about two thousand and nine two thousand and ten who was in chief of intelligence under then military general stanley mcchrystal mcchrystal who said and i quote we are flying blind in afghanistan how many pashtun speakers are there when you when you find out in
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the u.s. intelligence community when you look when you talk to for example interpreters you find out that there is a huge underground network of interpreters all of whom have to pay bribes before they can work with with the american soldiers who controls these interpreters well i'm not sure that they're completely free at all but television can easily infiltrate this is my own experience i don't think the u.s. intelligence capabilities are nearly what they're portrayed to be however. when you get to someplace like pakistan i think it's possibly a bit different we have drones overhead we're constantly under president obama we've ratcheted up the number of drone attacks to those drones and i've been under drones how do they know where to attack you have to have the information on the ground what does that information come from it comes from working closely in tandem with pakistani military intelligence that they would choose to attack their attack there why after so many years where we had we not been able to kill the leader of
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the country network. ormal omar or goldman hekmatyar the three leaders of the taliban or why did we have to go in and kill osama bin laden why didn't the pakistani intelligence tell us where these people were maybe they knew and maybe they don't know but i happen to think they absolutely know. but they have we have to have that intelligence on the ground and i think it's far better in pakistan then in afghanistan but it comes because pakistan works closely with these people and they work closely with the united states and who they want to attack they want to allow the united states to attack. i started this interview by asking about afghanistan but i want to wrap it up by asking you about something you said that because you recently said that you believe that your lesson and its allies are fighting a proxy war against. own with the media but that is at all without a doubt that that could create even more dangerous times make clearly and in that area of the world if they still don't know what they're doing in afghanistan can't
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figure it out rightly right is pakistan our ally or is it our enemy now the taliban and you take someone like former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen who said the economy network is an arm of the pakistani i.s.i. pakistani military intelligence that we the united states have paid at least twelve billion dollars and given a different forms at least twelve billion dollars to the pakistani military since nine eleven but the pakistani military. former admiral mike mullen said every everyone else is backing the tell of it so we are supplying money to the very people that are providing this money to the taliban to attack u.s. forces why would pakistan back to tell about what is pakistan's interest in afghanistan no single afghan legislature in the history of afghanistan has accepted the border between afghanistan and pakistan afghanistan was the only nation in the
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world to vote against pakistan admittance to the united nations in one thousand nine hundred seventy one single thing the borders in eight hundred ninety three the british when they ruled india created with this called the durand line they do not accept the fact that the land that once belonged to them that the british took away should belong to pakistan and this is deep down at the heart of this particular never ending war in the middle of which the united states and its soldiers continue to. war that one started out of the against al-qaeda which has morphed into something far deeper far more complicated there's an old afghan saying it's gonna stand it's very easy to enter but it's very hard to leave we're not leaving by two thousand and fourteen will still be there and we'll leave it right there thank you very much for your time.
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film fury muslims across the globe and their anger with protests and violence for a six day following the release of a movie made in the u.s. . washington slams the film in a damage control mission while condemnation is also voiced worldwide with russia calling on governments to regard people's religious feelings. and tens of thousands protest against austerity measures in spain and portugal as the debt crisis brands renew calls for separatism in catalonia. top stories of the week and sports next with paul.
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thank you very much marina welcome to the sports headlines here's what's coming up on the truck lokomotiv moscow rise to it in the russian from the league following the one away never felt like title holder. staying alive the bryan brothers win that doubles rubber against spain to keep the usa in with a shout of reaching the twenty twelve davis cup final. and the four from for the all blacks they perfect in this season's rugby championship but only after a close fall when i for south africa. and first following last weekend's victory over spartak moscow city rivals lokomotiv have not another noticeable scalp in their quest for the first russian a premier league crown in a decade the railway men sing off rubin one male in the capital on saturday a tough task turning into an uphill battle for rigging and christina ansaldo received his marching orders towards the end of the first half of the challenge
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a set piece would break the deadlock after the break alexandersson meadows corner kick was so fast the camera. crews and potter. said minutes of being would press hard after that looking for an equaliser but to no avail one nailed the final school. meanwhile spacek travelled to combat on the back of two defeats in a row looking to bounce back to form and it was the muscovites who took the lead in the early minutes with this precise shot from our q.b. . however just ten minutes later the home side level matters action figure five hundred one differing from distance. on the stroke of half time keeper at the perfect chance to take the late for the first time but even he was penalty was well saved by andre di can the second period mirrored the first visit he's going to head for a second time the same. thanks to a powerful effort from emanuel and leak a bureaucrat johns man never gave up on us executed you see perfectly the ballots
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will draw their way for spartak and three now not ideal for pressure for tuesday's visit to pass alone or in the champions league. meanwhile on sunday as the line you know in a victory will move them up to second in the table and they entertain crowded out thinking for their third consecutive victory while the now about let's move off the bottom as they travel to rostov. meanwhile over in the english top flight chelsea remain top despite dropping their first points of the season they do neal neal of queens park rangers manchester united a second after scoring for unanswered second half goals at home to wigan asshole off the third after thrashing rock bottom southampton six one elsewhere champions manchester city who held one want to start their wins were full of an aston villa while knowledge of west ham finished goalless the mall in the week of the hillsborough revelations liverpool three one one at sunderland. three very difficult week of course as you can imagine for the city you'd never think sharon
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and you know some of the players brought you know a bit of older maturity into your relatives so it would be a real emotional week when you shameful liverpool was part of the contre know you as a player and manager. you showing your agreement reached you sharing agreement contributed to portrush an emotional national important journey of over. well in the german bundesliga dorman's fans once again turned out in numbers and were even joined by chancellor angela merkel as the reigning champions hosted by leverkusen had her twenty minutes in the last hour of skate and scored a second before half time. asking. the way in the second half as the host for two of. the ball playing away. while the champions main rivals in last year's runners up are trying to maintain their start comparing the past minds
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to kitchen bastian schweinsteiger gave the hosts a comfortable two. just two minutes last year champions league final one. proved to be the case in one one three one point. boxing surgery martinez has reclaimed the w.b.c. middleweight title after beating mexican helios as arshad as junior by a unanimous decision in las vegas the argentine was stripped of the title two years ago after failing to take on a mandatory challenger job as junior proceeded to take the vacant belt martinez that dominated saturday night's clash for eleven rounds and was heading for a comfortable points decision however a late flurry from chavez jr almost secured a late knock out martinez hit the canvas twice in the final round but managed to get to his face on both occasions when the bell sounded there was only one winner martinez of the us adding the w.b.c.
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crown to the title also holds. now in tennis the usa have kept their davis cup semifinal with spain alive following a victory in the doubles rather on saturday trailing two love after the mike and bob bryan as the top ranked double team in the world knew they needed to win to give the usa any chance of reaching november's final and they started brightly in france when a sellout fifteen thousand capacity crowd in one taking the first set six three. spain's marcel granollers appeared to pick up an injury in helping spain play in the second set but he decided to carry on playing and from that point onwards the bryan brothers it didn't look back seeing out a six three three six seven five seven five when the hot springs laid a win for david for the johnnies many singles later on sunday see the defending champion three point five years. meanwhile argentina have it all to do
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with that to reach their second successive davis cup final not only do they trailed two one heading into the final day of the semifinal with the czech republic. talismanic one martin del potro for some measure of virtue of this he's been ruled out with a wrist injury the czech republic seize the initiative on saturday with the doubles in straight sets terms but it's radek stepanek different from the water colors park six three six four six three check now one win away from the second you. to cricket where the twenty twenty world cup gets underway this weekend angle of the defending champions in the shortest format of the game having recently lost top spot in the test rankings to south africa england captain stuart gould really came to his side to reassert their dominance in ten or twenty six south africa also happens to be the top ranked t twenty side in the world but are still looking for their first major i.c.c. tournament victory and their captain a.b. de villiers inmates in the past pressure may have got to his side. i'm going to be
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very honest with you i'm going to put it out there straight up front to be our church in the past and we know about that if you if that's the word she looking for it's a simple as that we've had some really bad bad bad experiences in the past but a lot if a source of us past we come in with a whole new look in this team we've worked really hard with all new management team which is giving us a lot of energy and a lot of new ideas so we will approach this tournament differently we would like to win the pressure situations we are going out there to do exactly that and like i said be prepared and really excited to to to get on to that field meanwhile it was a busy night for sri lanka's kumar sangakkara carter at the annual licensing awards ceremony he won three awards including the people's choice voted for by the public the sri lanka batsman who not in fifteen hundred runs in fourteen tests in the last three i'll france was also named test cricket of the year and won the overall prize as i see some cricketer of two thousand and twelve. writes it's an amazing on
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i've seen the people who won before and i've seen the nominees and and the year these guys have had i just sat and watched and admired all the all the guys out there and philander faced him twice i got out to him twice i reckon in syria and so it's great to be among women it's a huge honor to win it elsewhere new zealand have maintained their perfect record after four matches at the rugby championship the all blacks needing to survive a tough test though at home to a resilient south african side. i i. i traditionally see a display of the world champions on. israel moving around the springboks defense i will block still only have a slim five for me half time the explosion right there and i would go south africa the advantage after the break i two thousand and seven world. wide for the. this
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without the pleasures from half hour in smith story would answer right back to the house side of the rock took advantage of the graining sending off to close out an hour twenty one eleven. while reigning champions australia just about managed to edge past two among boys argentina the visiting puma's taking a sixth relating to half time off the wallabies try disallowed argentina would also come out with a rule after the break with thompson ali who were far less combative scored a stunning two tries in as many minutes appeal as lead nine hundred six with twenty three minutes to guide the tries back pedal to the iomega prevented a huge upset helping young royals as their second consecutive win twenty three nineteen the final straw on the golf clubs. now turning to motor sport why dani pedrosa has snuck into pole position as the sunday san marino graeme frey the spaniard making a dramatic late push to his main rival and current overall lead
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a whole day renzo who is now in second they twenty six year old child a great decision on the stand a world so a shame challenged memorising rider who died last year last year's winner take the drugs edging top dog runs i buy less than two hundred on the second shot of our butts like anyone else from. our bodies or from the water sports now probably back with more in just under two hours time here in our safe journey that. i'm in such a. city in europe i'm the host of the twenty fourteen winter the pick
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