and i'm not sure -- there were some pashtuns with the northern alliance. so we had a relationship with all of those. the agency did, anyway. through those teams operating with the northern alliance. basically up north, the way it works is teams would work with one of the major commanders from the northern alliance and they were doing the same with those guys up in the northern alliance. they actually had an army up there, tanks, helicopters and all that. we were doing the same thing in the south, although we did not have an army to work with, guerrilla groups is what we were doing. so we had relationships with them and they knew -- we tried to pass information back and forth so the northern alliance guys knew what was going on in the south, we knew what was going on in the north that kind , of thing, but we were not directly dealing with them, or any of the other ethnic groups. vince: please join me in thanking duane evans for taking the time to talk with us today. [applause] vince: his book is "foxtrot in kandahar." will you stick around a little while an

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thing we're going to be doing is carrie and ok everyone at least three people on each side my name is pashtun area where i met death matter where i am the executive director of india which is an acronym for the canadian integrated network for death education alternatives which strongly supports families having meaningful choices whether thoughts are around i'm also a wiccan priestess and and i actually are dangerous one close off and wicca has a much stronger focus on the balance between light and dark. and there is that respect for the cycle of the year in the death house to happen in order for there to be new growth what we're going to work on right now is washing the top part of him there's something that happens between the mind and the body when you're hands on with the body that is what we used to call it in the seventy's at the stock. it's like a whole bunch of things come together much deeper than just sitting by the body or praying or singing or writing a memorial or something like that but it's also easier to process through to this is now a corpse and our beloved is still with us i

. >> the 44-year-old pashtun tribal commander hamid karzai. >> after tarin kowt there were all these. >> we'd go through a village and not even fire a shot. these guys would come out of the woodwork. and you would be amped up. what? what? about ready to shoot. you know, they'd be like, aaahh. you know. once they could see the force coming in, they were all about it. they wanted to be with you. they want odd to get the taliban out. >> we were literal lly throwing k's in the back of suvs in just stacks and piles. got a couple more guys, let's keep going. >> had this 300-man mob of afghan fighters and just had to move this mob down to kandahar. >> that's when we coined the term like an afghan convoy. >> i knew it was completely unrealistic when i went in the special force that's i'd be given the kind of autonomy that holy shit, here i have this exactly the campaign i, you know, dreamed of. >> northern alliance commander, they have moved their troops into areas close to mazar e sharif. >> fighting intensifying. >> we had greater maneuverability on horseback in that terrain than the talib

i remember reviewing some afghan troops in the city of khost near the border, in a pashtun area where the taliban are strong. i asked just out of curiosity, how many of these troops i'm reviewing here have been infiltrated by -- at that point, it would be al qaeda, it would be isis now. they said probably 5%. i said 5% of the people we're training are sympathetic to the other side? they said yeah. so it's unavoidable in these sort of fractured places. you're going to get a rogue element that will turn on us. and that's why you got to bring your best practices each and every time because you get a tragedy like this when you don't exercise that abundance of caution. >> i want to play something else general dunnford had to say yesterday. take a listen. >> one of the places that we know isis has aspirations to establish a larger presence is in africa. we know how important libya and the sinai have been to the islamic state. we know how much they have tried to get into east africa. and of course the scenario we're talking about here today in west africa. >> so right now, according to gener

we're going to be doing is carryin ok everyone here at least three people on each side and my name is pashtun area where i met death matter where i am the executive director scindia which is an acronym for the canadian integrative network for death education alternatives which strongly supports families having meaningful choices whether thoughts are around i'm also a wiccan priestess and and i actually are dangerous one close off and wicca has a much stronger focus on the balance between light and dark. and there is that respect for the cycle of the year in the death house to happen in order for there to be new growth what we're going to work on right now is washing the top part of him there's something that happens between the mind and the body when you're hands on with the body that is what we used to call it in the seventy's at the stock. it's like a whole bunch of things come together much deeper than just sitting by the body or praying or singing or writing a memorial or something like that but it's also easier to process through to this is now a corpse and our beloved is still with us i

in-state because i think the taliban's new group in their areas in afghanistan where particularly rural pashtun areas where they prefer the taliban to the government of kabul but like the north vietnamese the taliban feel like they are making gains so there's no need to come to the negotiating table. i understand this new strategy is designed to increase pressure to bring them to the negotiating table. at least that would be a bipartisan government for what they see as a change in the rules when you talk about air support which is vital and we are posting up with 3000 troops. is that going to bring the taliban to the negotiating table? >> sir in the past we have not had over three and a thousand troops who were all of their challenges have stood in the field and the taliban from doing what they can do. even today which is to take the provincial and district centers so we now have the advantage of that experience, more experienced force but we have got to get the advisers down to a level where they bring nato air support and nato intel support and nato artillery and broader artillery support to