national defense university and author of the "the taliban revival" about the reemergence of the taliban in afghanistan after u.s. and nato invasion of 2001. he talked about his book at the carnegie endowment for international peace for about an hour and a half. >> welcome to the session on the resurgence of the taliban at the carnegie endowment. we are happy to welcome you here this morning and i must tell you from the very beginning this is cosponsored with your organization in this. what this session is about is the launching of this book, "the taliban revival" violence and extremism on the pakistani-afghanistan frontier. this is indeed a timely book, or maybe not so much a timely book. ideally i don't know because we arrived at the end of the cycle. this cycle is the cycle of western intervention in afghanistan. this is definitely not the end of the arab complex. unless we believe our own propaganda this is not likely to be so in the months to come. since the end of 2001, a lot of people have died in afghanistan. all of that was -- the taliban. i know that the focus these days in the country is mos

he told me, members of the taliban themselves. >> while its impossible for me to confirm the details of what happened to this family, what is true is that the war in afghanistanas led to the death of thousands of civilians caught in the middle - killed either by the taliban, afghan security forces or international troops. it's impossible to know the exact figures - but the un estimates that the majority of those civilian casualties are caused by the taliban. i had heard that the taliban, who had previously bombed state-run schools and murdered teachers, were now allowing them to reopen. i wanted to see what education looked like now in taliban-controlled charkh. >> at this boys-only school, there was an emphasis on religious studies, and the taliban prohibits all literature and textbooks they perceive as immoral. but i was also led into a chemistry class, and another class where the students were learning math. i asked the teacher a few questions. >> before i arrived in charkh, i had heard that some taliban leaders had softened their stance on girls' being educated in state schools. >> when they held power, the taliban severely restricted girls' education and

national defense university and author of the "the taliban revival" about the reemergence of the taliban in afghanistan after u.s. and nato invasion of 2001. he talked about his book at the carnegie endowment for international peace for about an hour and a half. >> welcome to the session on the resurgence of the taliban at the carnegie endowment. we are happy to welcome you here this morning and i must tell you from the very beginning this is cosponsored with your organization in this. what this session is about is the launching of this book, "the taliban revival" violence and extremism on the pakistani-afghanistan frontier. this is indeed a timely book, or maybe not so much a timely book. ideally i don't know because we arrived at the end of the cycle. this cycle is the cycle of western intervention in afghanistan. this is definitely not the end of the arab complex. unless we believe our own propaganda this is not likely to be so in the months to come. since the end of 2001, a lot of people have died in afghanistan. all of that was -- the taliban. i know that the focus these days in the country is mos

>> as us forces prepare to pull out of afghanistan after twelve long years, al jazeera's fault lines travelled there. >> the taliban fighters, they're running towards the base now. they're trying to raid the base. >> over several days, we gained extraordinary access to a group of self-proclaimed taliban fighters. >> and the mortars are landing in the areas where we are. >> it was an insight, in part at least, into what the war in afghanistan looks like - from the other side. >> the fighter jet is still in the air circling looking for a target. >> kabul, afghanistan afghan president hamid karzai is currently refusing to sign a treaty that would leave a small nato force in the country. if nothing changes, all foreign soldiers will leave by the end of this year. in secret, karzai has been negotiating with the taliban, in order to avoid a full-blown civil war. since 2005, the taliban has clawed back territory. they now dominate large parts of the country. >> but approximately only one hour's drive from here, right over behind the mountain there, is logar. and in logar there's still a war going on. >> i wanted to see wh

however, initial years of afghan taliban, that no other option but to come to pakistan from the point of you. in afghanistanhey would've been killed in bombay. pakistan give them space at least two i think, it's my just an estimate without any empirical, direct source in this case but at the maybe around 100 afghan taliban leaders, around that number probably came to pakistan. brought families and all our living there. at the time they talked to pakistan, went after them, stood by them. but despite that they saved him from being bombed in their capacity. i think it was a lot of manipulation. there was manipulation and summer compared to pakistan but that's why also whenever pakistan needed afghan taliban, the old cards helped, then it was cooperation et cetera responded by not coming out against pakistan taliban. said question is a valid. the other question, and i will take a minute, but that's a very profound idea. i'm not making a position that from outside we use islam as a tool or anything else. i'm interested because there are sunnis, shia but one thing in common, the point in job or whether these are

taliban claimed responsibility on that attack. four of the attackers killed there, four police me, two members, and two civilians, challenges all over afghanistan. the taliban has large-scale attacks in the south, east and north. the afghan security forces have been fighting them off. ashraf ghani saying in his inauguration speech, that the afghan security forces are in charge of the country, he recognises that they'll need hep, and expect tomorrow that the government will sign security agreements with united states, allowing american and international trainers to remain in the country past the end of 2014, when the current mandate expires, 12,500 troops supporting the african security forces. security and the economy two of the newest challenges. >> thank you. this year's afghan election was beset with problems. none of the candidates cleared the 50% mark. 8 million afghans went back to the polls choosing between abdullah abdullah and ashraf ghani. the votes were audited under u.n. supervision. it was turned to chaos with both sides accusing each other of fraud. after months of wrangling, a power sharing agreement was signed. >> the taliban de

, like what president bush did invaded afghanistan and believed he should go after taliban inside afghanistan. but the supreme leader decided not for iran to intervene. but this is very, very range. >> when you talk to americans about iran and the united states, obviously one of the great issues is israel. while the rhetoric has changed dramatically out of tehran since rouhani replaced ahmadinejad, and it seems to me rouhani has extended himself to say we are not holocaust deniers. we do not want to wipe israel off the face of the map. i still won wanted to ask you, for those that would be curious, what would -- assume the u.s. and iran do reach a kind of reproachment now. is it possible to imagine iran any one day recognizing the state of israel? if that is not possible, its possible to imagine iran not protesting the existence of the state of israel? is there a possible compromise there? >> first of all, warren, tell me what is the change in israeli position during ahmadinejad and rouhani? the israeli position has remained the same. therefore it doesn't matter if someone in iran

afghanistan taliban. nothing after that. a remarkable thing happened in a few weeks when a clerk from saudi arabia part of the al-nusra front. an affiliate of al qaeda corp - a public letter that made it into the public realm saying, "sheikh, i'm in, where are you", there was no response. >>> is this an attempt on al qaeda's part to remain relevant? >> absolutely no doubt. first and foremost the safety on the tape, and what it was about with the naming of the new affiliate in the indian subcontinent. this was the answer. instead of a public tit for tack. where ayman al zawahiri may set up for losing faith with all that is going op with is and i.s.i.s., it was not a direct talking or arguing about that. he looked to the east with this - with setting up something in india, and reafirmed again that the chain of command, if you will, for the leader of the faithful is through mohlif omar. >> he didn't mention the terrorists, but talked about growing discord among evil doers. what do you think this means for the rest of the world.

in afghanistan, dawn is just moments away, as a group of taliban fighters prepare to launch an attack on an afghan army base. >> they haven't told me exactly when they are going to attack. they just said it's going to happen around sunrise. >> the fact that there would be suicide bombers was a surprise. they hadn't told me about that before. then the commander, leesan, hears a car coming. he asks the driver, a civilian, if there are government troops on the road. >> and then suddenly the fighting begins >> the talibans's heavy machine gun isn't ready. >> these taliban have little or no formal military training. >> the afghan national army fight back. >> things aren't going to plan. their machine gun still isn't working. they leave the gunner to fix it, while they go to support the attack from another side. >> to allow the rest of the taliban to enter the base, three suicide bombers have been sent to blow up the main gate. but they have to first avoid heavy fire coming from inside. >> the taliban they just started to raid the base. >> the taliban fighters, they are running towards the

we did that once before in afghanistan when the russians were thrown out. we aloud the talibanw al qaeda in and the result was september 11th, 2001. they had a -- a no-man's-land where they could train and that's the same thing happening now with isil in syria and in ir iraq. we just cannot sit still and allow them to get stronger and wait until they attack our homeland. >> sure. congressman elliott engel in new york with us today, congressman, thanks for your typ time, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> coming up, former mexican president felipe calderon will join us live to talk about the need to ramp up global coordination. also, new questions about who knew what and when they knew it in the ray rice domestic violence case. before, though, the white house soup of the day. they are serving up gazpacho. much more "tdr" just four minutes away. a brand new start. your chance to rise and shine. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you can do just that. with our visionary cloud infrastructure, global broadband network and custom communications solutions, your busi

. >>> afghanistan's taliban announced a pack by the country rebel candidates to form a government andected on sunday and the arrangement with abdoula-abdoula is three months after a disputed election result but they say the deal is a sham. al jazeera continues to demand release of journalists in prison in egypt and have been detained 268 days and falsely accused of helping the muslim brotherhood and they got five and then mohamed got additional three and they are appealing against convictions. more than 300,000 people marched in the streets of new york on sunday in what may have been the largest climate change in history and ban ki-moon and al gore and leonardo dicaprio. they are on the front lines of climate change and they are losing their neighborhoods to rising sea levels and extreme weather to groups who traveled from the southwest of the united states. delegation we brought are being impacted by development for over 40 years and we have a big boom of fracking and history of uranium mining, and coal country and we felt the negative impacts for years and we are here to join with b

get this far, they are vetted to find out if they have any kind of militant or any this case, afghanistan taliban ties. otherwise they wouldn't be allowed into the country. never the less, while they're not considered to be an immediate threat to americans, local, state, program and military investigators are trying to find out exactly where they went and where they are. >> and, i didn't mean, we hajim names. why no images? as i understand it there are some images. we don't have them. but some images have been posted, and it's -- again, the u.s. military is concerned but they're not all spun up about this. this has happened repeatedly over the years. at one point a number of iraqis in texas were, you know, walked away from their training facilities. just last week, two afghan soldiers walked away from the training base in quantity koe, virginia and later picked up apparently shopping in georgetown in washington, d.c. so unless there is some indication they are, in fact, somehow affiliated with some terrorist militant organization, at this point, are not deemed a threat. but never the less, offici

because as that happens, the taliban is clearly going to make some kind of play for power in afghanistan, the afghan taliban, and historically they have been supported by the pakistani military. do you believe that will happen again? >> whether the pakistani military supports them or not, the fact remains that they have not done anything so far to stop the taliban, afghan taliban, from remaining a significant factor in afghanistan so when the taliban do make a play, pakistan will definitely be drawn in. it's unlikely that pakistan will clamp down on the afghan taliban. in fact, i think that zawahari's attempt to talk about india is to try to get the hard line elements among pakistani jihadis to think about them as a potential ally. that's his play. i don't think he will get much traction, but basically what he's trying to do is appeal to the entire indian sentiment that is there every day and hoping to get recruits for his cause. i think we will see problems in afghanistan and we will continue to see problems in pakistan. i just wish that the sharrif government would have been able to re

we've seen it in somalia and mali, of course in afghanistan, when hosted by the taliban. so this is a generational struggle. i would disagree with you that it's not on the agenda. it is. we're going to be discussing it at the leader's dinner this evening. one of the things nato will be agreeing in these next two days is that we should be helping those countries most threatened build their capacity. we'll be offering, for instance, jordan capacity building and help with their armed forces to make sure they can play an even greater role in keeping their region and their people safe. >> will britain be committing air strikes against isis in iraq and syria? >> we don't rule anything out. we'll act with partners in our national interest. we've already taken some important steps with americans and others. we've been helping the kurds. just last night, british plane landed with body armor for the kurdish forces. we're helping with iraqi government. i think there's more we can do in both those areas we've been flying surveillance and other missions over iraq, working with our ame

and yet we fought the taliban for 13 years in afghanistan. was ever any kind of definitive victory over the taliban. are some of the same challenges posed in this situation with isis? >> reporter: well, you bring up a very interesting parallel. you have this militant group. let's go back to afghanistan, which i think is actually quite appropriate analogy here. so in 2001, 9/11 happens. and you have the taliban and al qaeda entrenched in afghanistan. the u.s. begins air strikes, lasts three months. three months of intense bombardment, almost no troops on the ground. there were some special forces there. but there were about 400 special forces in total. one american died, mike spann. and it cost roughly $1 billion. and after three months, the taliban and al qaeda were removed. al qaeda was on the run. the taliban was on the run. and this area, this mountainous area was liberated. and we had an allied army there called the northern alliance. they moved in and took control. and things were for a while relatively stable. but then the war in iraq ha

. >>> in afghanistan hundreds of taliban fighters have taken control of a province.ast 70 people are reported to have been killed there in the past five days. that's in the east of the country. 12 people are reported to have been beheaded. >> reporter: local officials in the district in the west say this fight has been very brutal going on for nearly a week now. and the taliban have been launching attacks against the police. they say the taliban have been burning down many homes, brutally murdering any civilians they feel have acted against them. the taliban trying to take over the district headquarters. we understand they attacked four check points along the road. they say they have killed many police with explosive devices planted in the road. the governor says he believes afghan forces will per vail, but he is waiting for reinforcement and it's difficult to get there. 400 reinforcements have been sent, but are running into trouble along the roads. we have seen this kind of fighting around afghanistan, a very difficult fighting season for the security forces, but t

after his inauguration, ghani called for dialogue with the taliban to tackle afghanistan's biggest challenge of improving its security situation. the top priority of the new administration is the security challenge. the taliban has exploited the electoral standoff to intensify its attacks. as most international combat troops would pull out by the end of the year. nhk world world reports on the challenges that lie ahead. >> reporter: the taliban is capitalizing on the chaos in afghanistan. the local police chief says the situation is making his work more difficult. >> translator: because of the confusion surrounding the election, our arms supply stopped. if this situation continues, fighting the enemy will be very difficult. >> reporter: nearly 1,000 civilians have died in the last 6 months, caught up in the rising number of terrorist incidents and fighting. the family of shah gul lives in the north of the country. her husband died in august, shot in a crossfire between the taliban and security forces while walking in his field. >> translator: we didn't know there would be fighting here. we w

for years. >> the taliban was controlling the country of afghanistan at theime, and they would give them safe haven to the al qaeda network. >> we going to have to fight the taliban to get them out of the way so we could chase bin laden. >> now, if these hiding out, how does they get supplies? how does he live? >> well, money goes a long way in afghanistan, because it's such a poor country. >> oil, and the taliban. >> i knew if we could offer them money, and they could see we had military power to back up, we could get in quickly. >> the pentagon announcing to the public today the united states warplanes are ordered to get to the persian gulf as soon as possible. >>> time to go do the job. everybody said, the boat's ready to go, and we just want to go do our job. >> just prayed that they would come home safe. >> we're ready. >> there are movement and you will see more movement and i hope everyone understands why we do not want to reveal the details of those movements. >> on the last morning we went to see -- i'll give you clear instructions. go to afghanistan

for years. >> the taliban was controlling the country of afghanistan at theime, and they would give them safe haven to the al qaeda network. >> we going to have to fight the taliban to get them out of the way so we could chase bin laden. >> now, if these hiding out, how does they get supplies? how does he live? >> well, money goes a long way in afghanistan, because it's such a poor country. >> oil, and the taliban. >> i knew if we could offer them money, and they could see we had mitary power to back up, we could get in quickly. >> the pentagon announcing to the public today the united states warplanes are ordered to get to the persian gulf as soon as possible. >>> time to go do the job. everybody said, the boat's ready to go, and we just want to go do our job. >> just prayed that they would come home safe. >> we're ready. >> there are movement and you will see more movement and i hope everyone understands why we do not want to reveal the details of those movements. >> on the last morning we went to see -- i'll gve you clear instructio. go to afghanistan, con

in afghanistan today, a taliban suicide bomber blew up his car next to a nato convoy. two americans and one polish soldier were killed near the u.s. embassy in kabul. president obama also met today with dr. kent brantly and his wife. dr. brantly contracted the ebola virus in liberia and has now recovered. later, the president went to cdc headquarters in atlanta to announce u.s. help in the worst ebola outbreak ever, blamed for more than 2500 deaths in west africa. here's dean reynolds. >> reporter: this summer, dr. dan kelly worked alongside the sick and the dying of west africa. while there, he documented evidence for cbs news of the appalling conditions and lack of facilities, medical supplies, and trained caregiverrers. >> everyone here is scared that's he might get ebola, especially because many of their leaders have died. >> reporter: an infectious disease specialist with the well body alliance, kelly returned september 8 from three weeks in sierra leone, which along with liberia and guinea formed the epicenter of the epidem. >> >> when i went over there, i felt l

afghanistan. at the same time qatar hosts exiled leaders of the taliban.it is against bashar al-assad, a stat support that u.s. endorses. but it also supports rebels, something that to arm extremists. >> it's clear that qatar has supported some of the more hard lined groups. >> reporter: the u.s. treasury has accused qatar of hosting terrorist financiers. siding two private individuals it accused funneling money from qatar to al-qaeda affiliates in syria. while the treasury didn't say that the two ever acted on behalf of the cu qatari government, i qatar denies supporting terrorists but it does work with other nations including the united states, britain, germany and france and six countries in the region to provide support to syria's armed opposition. >> there are those quick to point out that qatar supports all kinds of groups and oftentimes those who are critical of the qatari position has competing foreign policy agenda. >> reporter: indeed, qatar policies have clashed with saudi arabia. the biggest dispute between the two is qatar's support of the mus

afghanistan and became the world's largest recipient as international aid as the country rebuilt itself. as it prospered, millions returned to the country. there was a resurgence in education for the first time since the talibanirls across afghanistan could go to school. women's rights have expanded, both achievements that karzai frequently mentions. >> t.v. programs debate karzai's legacy and while opinions are mixed, the debates are a testament to a thrive free press. >> the media, the freedom of speech coming trucontributed toe political maturity of the afghan people, especially the young generations. >> it hasn't been an easy tenure. there were a number of attempts on his life most notably in canned har and as a military parade in cobble in 2008. you reached out to try to bring a highless peace counsel closer to the government. it failed. his critics say he didn't enter early into international support and he failed to build a sustainable government. >> he empowered the war lord but did not invest in the after gaen state because he does not believe in the new afghanistan. he does not believe in modern institutions. >> his relationship with the united states and nato is strained by his anger over the killi

they cannot do something because -- in afghanistan, the taliban going around telling people, look, they're going to be gone, and we're going to be here, and we'll cut your heads off. those people are afraid to side with us, and that's the problem we have in all of these things. that's where this president has let down. what i was saying is he could be focused on this issue and not take off doing something else, and he hasn't been able to show that he can stick to something, so he gave this speech last week, and then earlier this week he was off to georgia to send 3,000 troops to africa to fight ebola. >> correct. >> and spend more money on that than on the effort that he had just said he was going to decimate and wipe out the isil threat. >> there's a fourth point. here's a fifth one. khorasan now, this new off-shoot of al qaeda we're learning about now today. so, you know, this threat is not going away. in fact, multiplying. >> no, i think it's going to be a campaign issue for the next presidential election because this is going to go for years. we need somebody that's going to be resolut

embassy in afghanistan. a talibanar bomber hit a foreign motorcade along a busy road that runs from the embassy to the airport. a senior afghan finance minister says the afghan government needs a half billion dollar bailout from the u.s. and other donors within a week in order to pay its bills. ukraine moved a big step closer to europe today, but it also fulfilled a promise to the russians. chief washington continue james rosen has the latest on how the u.s. is dealing with that conflict. >> reporter: lawmakers in the ukrainian parliament reiced after voting in tandem with the european union department. it was the very step that former ukrainian president refused to take which triggered the protest that claimed 100 ukrainian lives and his fall from power. >> the heavenly hundred brave ukrainian soldiers have died, not only for the ukraine. >> russian is the official language of rebel enclaves in eastern ukraine. authority for these areas to form their own police forces all as the terms of this month's cease fire provi

possibility they may even be remotely connected to any militant organization and in the case of afghanistan, the taliban. they were cleared of that. second of all, the exercises they were taking part in were command exercises. table top exercises. no kinetics and weapons involved. they no weapons and history of being connected. they don't consider them a threat. mostly of all, over the years, this happened often. everyone from afghanistan, pakastanis and iraqis who come to this country and according to military and law enforcement officials, they get a taste of america and want to stay. that doesn't mean this is not serious and they are pursuing this, but at this point they do not consider these three to pose any kind of serious or imminent threat. >> i get it and calling me skeptical, these colleagues of these types are vetted before they are on the air base and other plays where they have opened fire on americans in the past. we never expected it to happen. >> in that case. in this case these individuals have no history of any kind of militant activity and i get it. i believe this is serious, but don'

where does this leave the taliban in terms of their inclusion in the evolving political landscape in afghanistan? >> well, i think the rhetoric is expected because, after all, they have to oppose the system in kabul and afghanistan, and that justifies their existence. at the same time both men, especially dr ashraf ghani has repeatedly during his campaign indicated that he wants to look over the peace process, and come up with more innovative ways to reach a peace agreement with the taliban, and all the afghans are tired of this. and i think there'll be some efforts, some new efforts towards extending a hand towards the taliban, but, of course, the issue of the taliban does not depend on the afghan government, but depends on the international community, on washington, and most of all on neighbouring pakistan, whether they'll continue to support the taliban as a destabilizing factor in afghanistan or not. >> thank you for talking to al jazeera. >>> now, thousands of defiant protesters in hong kong vowed to stand their ground after facing a night of tear gas. demonstrators are camped out. riot pol

taliban attackers were killed. a sense of what a brutal fighting summer this has been for afghanistan's 350,000 security forces across the country. the taliban have not only lunched the attacks we saw in ghazni, but a similar one in jalalabad, and more traditional fighting in the south, in helmand province, that is going on for many months. we know the security forces took heavy casualties. those security forces will need nato help, past the end of the mission finishing at the end of this year. it will go on to a new mission called resolute support, where n.a.t.o. members train to assist the afghan security forces. the united states plans to keep 9,800 forces in the country through 2016. none of that can happen without a political deal, in addition to the security crisis. there's a political crisis. the two candidates for afghan presidents have not come to a political agreement, and the 8 million votes in the second round of presidential elections are being reviewed to figure out who won the election. a political stalemate, a security stalemate, and hope that a new afghan president would be at the n.a.t.o. summit. th

some in afghanistan allied to the taliban told the bbc they are considering joining forces with the islamic states. they say they'll fight against the afghan government even if nato forces leave afghanistan at the end of the year. john simpson traveled to meet the insurgents in northern afghanistan. >> the landscape is extraordinarily beautiful, but it's also very dangerous. we drove north for seven hours on new roads which, thanks to corruption, are often breaking up already. this is a war zone. we can plainly see the battle scars on the police posts as we headed into the town. it's a prosperous agricultural center, bustling. there's plenty of nervousness as well. the countryside around this town, the taliban and their allies are operating. everyone here is aware of them. when we were in the town we were safe enough. it's under government control. but directly you get outside it, you're in hostile territory. out here kidnapping is a real threat. but we've had the promise of a safe conduct from the fiercely radical group we're going to see, and we're pretty confident we can trust that. the

taliban pow's. susannah sirkin, let's start with you. talk about what happened in 2001, why you are so deeply concerned about the new vice president of afghanistan a large group of fighters, mostly taliban, surrendered to the northern alliance, which was working at an al -- as an ally in the united states when u.s. special forces were on the ground. prisoners wereed loaded like sardines into trucks according to testimony and evidence that we have, and transported across the desert. many of them suffocated, probably within days, because they were not given water. they were locked up in these, essentially, coffins, packed in. we have reports of gunshots being fired into the trucks, possibly to create air holes, werendeed, the way they fired indicates they were fired straight into the trucks, killing some of the surrendered prisoners. reportedly, they were all brought across to this area now known as -- near the prison. rights cameor human upon this site when we were visiting the horrific conditions or discover the horrific conditions neither the northern capital, and away from the prisoners were dying, dozens a day, for lack of food, illness, horr

>> essentially the taliban lied to me. i was in afghanistan a taliban member who had given interviews before to two foreign journalists, i was journalist number three. it was a lie. he grabbed me and took me over the border quickly from afghanistan. >> when you made the deal with the taliban and remember david miller -- not david miller. miller, first name escapes me interview interview interview interviewed osama bin laden. did you say maybe i'm putting myself in danger? >> i was very worried. i'd never done this. i'd covered afghanistan for about seven years. i met with one of the journalists who interviewed him and said you might be in more danger because you're american. >> so they grab you and take you into the pakistan mountains. >> yes. talk the pakistani military didn't lift a finger to find me and as far as i know they made no effort to find bowe bergdahl for five years. >> that's what's happening today. the taliban are attacking their airports. that's a smart strategy. did they beat you up? did they terrorize you? >> i would say in t

i deal with facts, afghanistan will be in control of taliban, al qaeda will still be in afghanistan and pakistan. pakistan will still have a nuclear threat. we will still not have accomplished our strategic objectives spending upward two trillion dollars -- >> we are running out of time, can you as president of u.s. articulate that message to american public this is what we're going to do, forget islamic state, we're going beyond that. >> >> i am noting ising that we forget about islamic state. >> i want this government united states, to be smart. we're 17 trillion in debt. there is a malaise in this land that is suffocates our markets and entrepreneurs, and ennovation in corporate america, it is time to awake this great engagengine of economic growth t created half the wealth in the world since world war 2 -- worlr ii, it time for all american people to understand that leaders of both parties of acting like damn fools, that is not a license for us to do so, hole them accountable. charles: thank you, lou, appreciate it, lou after the show 7:00 on fox business. we have coverage, detailed

remember these giant buddha statues, they were in afghanistan and the taliban blew them up, because even they were on the world heritage site and just part of history, the taliban thought they were worshipping the buddha. so they blew them up. >> that's not wonderful. >> a lot of people thought that afghanistan is a lost cause. there's a movement now of people there and around the world to consider rebuilding these buddhas, which cost about $20 million. honestly, if they can get private funding for this, i think this would be a great responsible to the taliban. i'm going to tweet the article, and you can let me know what you think, too. >> always interesting a provocative. we thank you for that. >> thank you. >> bob, you're next. >> i want to say, as one american citizen who, i want to say to eric holder, i think you have done a magnificent job. i think year critics -- by and large, i think you've been a terrific attorney general and i salute you for your service to the public and to the government. i think history will do you well. >> thank you. bob? greg? >> it's time for -- greg sport

in afghanistan, a taliban suicide bomber killed three nato troops in kabul. nearly 20 other soldiers and civilians were wounded. the car bomb went off near the u.s. embassy in kabul, leaving behind mangled vehicles and debris. reuters reported two of the dead were americans. the other was polish. in iraq, the u.s. military has expanded its air strikes against "islamic state" forces. planes hit targets just outside baghdad last night for the first time. iraqi military officials said today it's just the beginning. >> ( translated ): through the joint air cell between america and baghdad operations command, the american airstrikes started yesterday targeting chosen objectives in southern baghdad. the joint air cell will outline the targets. by so doing, the airstrikes are aimed at liquidating all islamic militants in the areas nearby baghdad. >> woodruff: meanwhile, political infighting in the iraqi parliament kept two key cabinet posts in limbo. lawmakers rejected nominees for the defense and interior ministers. ukraine made a landmark deal with the european un