karen pierce is here as well. thank you for coming. want to acknowledge someone i have known for 25 years. virginia homes is also here. the moderator, mediator, chairperson for the task force is here. thank you, i know you did a great job. >> i am going to be talking about the source system improvement program, focusing in on the changes we seek and the work that the task force did. we will move forward to the next steps. hopefully at the end of the presentation, the task force members will be able to share some thoughts with you. the source system improvement program is our capital improvement program for the waste water system as a whole. much of the emphasis will be focused on improvements at the southeast. we have developed a report. we have had an extensive planning process of about five to seven years. we recently committed -- completed 7 workshops where we established levels of service and goals for what the new system would look at. the major findings are on the web. i am hoping we can discuss a the next briefing the goals and

foreign policy towards afghanistan and pakistas today are foreign secretary william hague and karen pierceetary, would you like to start? speeding at think you may be helpful if we get on with your questions. speeding at me say i thank you and your officials. it was very well-received and we sense the people went the extra mile for us and it is much appreciated. is is li can i distinguishve between it s often put to us that al qaedal and the taliban are being grouped together when as you well know they are verye different beings. and, the government justifiesu its intervention ins afghanista, if they weren't there a qaeda would return to afghanistan and could pose a threat to nationaln security security. but a number of our witnesses have disagreed with this premise. what evidence have you got to suggest al qaeda, not taliban, al qaeda will return to afghanistan? >> it's impossible to have direct evidence of something that would happen in a situation. but we do have the experience of what happened before, before 2001, when most of afghanistan was an up and -- ungoverned state or taliban go