i hope the all-party agreement on what we do in afghanistan and what we have to do to defeat afghanistanwill remain in being. i hope that we will recognize in this particular exercise operation panthers claw, we are doing everything we can and will continue to do that to support our brave and courageous armed forces who are both professional and determined and will have all our support. >> mark todd. >> will my right honorable friend reflect on the decision of the ministry of defense to appeal against the judgment which would allow hearings of cases of nuclear test veterans seeking compensation against the ministry for injury that they or their relatives may have suffered as a consequence of their exposure to nuclear explosion? >> i will, of course, look at this. but as he knows, these are legal matters. they are matters that have ended up in the courts and we've got to look very carefully at what we do. >> mr. nick klegg? >> mr. speaker, after everything that's happened over the last few months people are crying out for change. yet, we have a spectacle of a prime time busy doing nothing

interests that aren afghanistan. the president's strategy is aimed at the form interests mainly to ensure those trabl regions stddling afghanistan and pakistan... kp in mind, when the presint does his strategy, hean look at the region when the commander does his stragy, he's limited towards just loong at afghanistan. but the president strategy and the president's policy aims were toeny al qaeda and other transnational rror groups the e of those tribal areas that straddle the line between afghanistan and pakistan. >> rose: so he or you wld define winning as? >> the dial of enemy his objectes so in that casehat we're trying to do is we're trying to create some sortf lasting situion infghanistan ereby afghanistan is inhospable and isot able to be used by al qaeda to plot attacks agnst the united states. >> rose:ou and others have said there are lots of problems over there in doing this. i think neral petras has said we've been losing the war over the last year or two. the problems arehe talibans growing stronger, there

now what are we trying to achieve in the afghanistan, and i'd say afghanistan and pakistan together? our strategy set out in april was recognition that the terrorist threat that this country faced was in this crucible around the borders of afghanistan and pakistan that we have to take action in relation, but the future late not simply in military action but in building up the afghan army and of course helping the pakistan authorities and giving people in the areas the sense they have a stake in the future of the country, and i believe you've got to look at the operations that were involved as a part of an afghan stand and pakistan strategy and you've got to look at this by being and not simply a military campaign but military action with a brave and dedicated soldiers and once again like you i know on many occasions i pay tribute to british forces and our sympathy to those families who have lost lives but to train more of the afghan people to be in the armed forces and police, and of course to provide the means by which economic activity in afghanistan can -- >> do you think people i

interests in afghanistan? assumption seems to be afghanistan constitutes a vital security interest of the united states, and therefore, we should be investing tens of thousands of soldiers and many billions of dollars to try to remake it. i question that assumption. frankly, i think afghanistan is of marginal interest to the united states. >> well, let me press you on that, andy. if the united states withdraws, britain withdraws, by every account the afghan government is pretty weak. there is a very good chance that it will either fall or large parts of the country will be taken over by the taliban which has, in the past, and is now closely allied with elements of al qaeda and al qaeda-like groups. so you will have a country that has -- allows al qaeda and its people to operate, train, have bases and potentially do terrorist activities from london to madrid, and, of course, the biggest target they often talk about, which is the united states. why is that not a threat? >> well, it is a threat, but it's a modest

things seem to be ratcheting up in afghanistan. stretching pete gretchen peters wrote a book and how harrowing bank rolling the taliban and al qaeda and she joins us from denver. at this juncture with the war still going on, should be close to resolution. instead it's going in a complete opposite direction. what's your view as to what's happening here? >> well i think a lot of mistakes were made immediately after the october 2001 invasion of afghanistan and we're seeing the affects of those mistakes now. >> eight years later? >> yes. i mean, first of all, the bush administration went in and the international community in general with a light footprint approach. afghanistan was dramatically under resourced compared to other postconflict situations, other places including kosovo, team work, cambodia, must less into re-introduction and trying to rebuilt afghanistan and into iraq. if we discuss iraq, of course, 2 wale was in 2003 when washington was ramping ip towards the invasion of the rourk that things started to spin out of control

australia's in afghanistan because the united states is there. >> commitment to an alliance in afghanistan is one thing. and i would certainly support that. but an argument that we're there to prevent terrorism in australia, i don't think is very sustainable. >> reporter: getting into the war was easier than leaving it will be. >> what signal would we send to terrorism in indonesia if we were to abandoned the battle of terrorism in afghanistan? >> we have to make progress in afghanistan. we know that that's not going to occur quickly. we know we're there effectively for the long haul. >> reporter: there's only one thing everyone agrees on -- there's no end in sight. chris ullman. >> to try and make sense of all of this, we've asked lisa curtis to come back and join us once more. she's a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation. she was part of a delegation that visited afghanistan about four weeks ago and she joins us from washington. welcome back. >> thanks for having me. >> what do you make in the way in which these attacks were carried out in the eastern part of the country? an

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interests thatre in afghanistan. the preside's strategys aimed athe rmer interests mainly to ense those tra regionsstraddling afghanistan and pakistan. keep in mind, when the psident does his strategyhe can look at theñr region whenhe commander does his rategy, he' limited towards justooking at afghanistan. but the presint's strategy and the preside's policy aims were to deny al qaeda and other transnatiol terror groups the use of those tribal areas that straddle the line between afghanistan and pakistan. >> rose: so her you wou define winning as? >> the denl of enemy his objectiv so in that case wt we're trying to do ise're trying to create some sort o lasting situatn in ahanistan wheby afghanistan is inhospitle and is n able to be used by al qaeda t plot attackagainst the unid states. >> re: you and others have said there are lots o problems over there in doing this. i thk general praeus has said we've bn losing the war over the last year or two. the problemre the talib is growing stronger, the is corruption in the

interests in afghanistan? the assumption seems to be afghanistan constitutes a vital security interest of the united states, and therefore, we should be investing tens of thousands of soldiers and many billions of dollars to try to remake it. i question that assumption. frankly, i think afghanistan is of marginal interest to the united states. >> well, let me press you on that, andy. if the united states withdraws, britain withdraws, by every account, the afghan government is pretty weak. there is a very good chance that it will either fall or large parts of the country will be taken over by the taliban, which has in the past and is now closely allied with elements of al qaeda and al qaeda-like groups. so, you will have a country that has -- allows al qaeda and its ilk to operate, to train, to have bases and potentially do terrorist activities everywhere from london to mumbai to madrid, and, of course, the biggest target they often talk about, which is the united states. why is that not a threat? >> well, it i

operations in iraq and afghanistan. over that period, america's reliance on contractors has grown to unprecedented proportion to support logistics security and reconstruction efforts. more than 240,000 contractor employees, about 80% of which are foreign nationals, now work in iraq and afghanistan supporting the department of defense. additional contractor employees support department of state and u.s. agency for international development. these 240,000 plus contractor employees actually outnumber u.s. military personnel in the two theaters. they provide critical support, and like our military personnel, many have paid a personal price. as of may 27, 2009, 4973 men and women of america's military, and at least 13 civilians of the department of defense have died in iraq and afghanistan. it is less well known that more than 1360 contractor employees have also died. criticisms of the contingency contracting system and suggestions for reform in no way diminish the sacrifice of the military and those contractors that gave th

in afghanistan, the armed contractor oversight division or what's referred to as acog is the office that oversees private contractors, licenses them, vets them and make sure they comply with contracts and conditions and such and it's a very large role. at the present, there's such a large role for a contractor, a security contractor to support that, that raises issues of conflicts of interest. the post of deputy director, the number two person, the person that briefed us when we were there, is occupied by a senior aegis private security official. the director position, an 06 military-level equivalent to a colonel -- while it's been approved to date, it has not been filled, identified and authorized and so even in contractor terms, for example, sir, if there's a use of force incident and there's mandatory coordination with the government of afghanistan, it's identified that the contractor, aegis will do that representative for the united states government. that's the current process. the commission's trip to afghanistan in 2009 underlined already acute contracting problems in reconstructi

war effort in afghanistan and a source tension between russia and america. tonight, we see what the locals think about the u.s. military presence in the central asian nation of kurzic stan. >>> millions of nations turn their eyes to the skies. as dawn turned to darkness across that continent it was the longest solar eclipse. >>> plus, britain's take on the u.s. banking crisis. a segment that we like to call "how they see it." tonight's report from itn is bound to raise eyebrows. >>> from the world's leading reporters and analysts, here is what's happening from around the world. this is "worldfocus." >>> made possible, in part, by the following funders -- >>> good evening. i'm martin savidge. >>> president barack obama and iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki sat down face to face today for meetings at the white house squaring off over the drawdown of american troops and concerns over the rising violence in iraq. today, not far from baghdad, two bombs exploded in a market kill at least five people and wounding dozens. it was the second day of bombings in what

if future strategy for the insurgency in afghanistan. barack obama has about afghanistan as a major priority for his administration, and he has committed additional troops to combat taliban militia. today, mr. miller band is focusing on dialogue. he ascended -- mr. -- mr. miliband. >> british troops in afghanistan have had their deadliest month so far. 20 soldiers killed in the past four weeks. of the nato -- other nato countries have seen their casualties rise as well, so the question now is how the campaign against the taliban can be won. britain's foreign secretary, visiting nato headquarters this morning, came with a clear message -- military force alone will not be enough. there also needs to be political reconciliation and reintegration. >> that means in the long term an inclusive political settlement in afghanistan, which draws a way conservatives nationalists, separating those who want islamic rule locally, from those who would commit violent g h jihad globally. >> afghanistan said david miller iband was at a turning point. >> by

one final point is, in afghanistan, why don't we just cut the mountain passes between afghanistan and pakistan, thereby getting rid of the taliban's ability to operate on that alliance? guest: it would be very difficult to cut those passes. i cannot tell you how remote and hard to get to it is and how many ways out of their. if you try to do that, it is like sealing the border when everybody says we conceal the border. it is awfully hard to do. we certainly could not do it here, i do not think. in afghanistan and pakistan, it is tremendously difficult. they did not do it in iraq in the early days of the war. they said they thought they had the border sealed with syria. that did not happen. there are just too many ways across those borders. it is a very difficult tiger -- a very difficult problem. there is debate about pulling out of somalia so quickly at looking weak. i think that has been well debated as well. that came after the horrible engagement there were many soldiers were killed. we were not prepared for that fight and we lost many soldiers that day. host: martha raddatz comes

>> exactly. >> who is the enemy now in afghanistan? i mean is it just as simple to say that it's taliban and al qaeda? or are there many, many, other groups and sub groups that you're dealing with in the country? >> it's the latter. there are in southern afghanistan, three principal types of enemy. there are what you might call full-time national level taliban, who answer to mull her omar, the old head of the taliban and the so-called regimen located in a pakistan city. then there are local taliban. some are little more than gangsters, really who claim to be taliban and they are part time for the most part and are probably the enemy fighters that the coalition would find easiest to buy off. and then there are foreign fighters. while i was in zabul, u.s. forces fought a fierce battle against an enemy force that appeared to be speaking farsi and russian. they were much better armed than your average taliban squad. they had body armor, kevlar helmets, used smoke grenades to break contact and so forth. so there is at least three types, and

six british soldiers killed in afghanistan in a single day. the rising death toll raising new questions back home. >>> and then new concerns for american troops on the frontline. going home, convoys of wary roph geese are beginning the journey back to pakistan's swat valley. twists of fate. fleeing to malaysia. they thought they escaped the tyranny of a military regime. instead, some these people were rounded up by authorities and sold into forced labor. >>> and all of the world's a stage. the most famous train in the world becomes rolling theater. tonight, we catch the show on the orient express, all aboard. >>> from the world's leading reporters and analysts, this is what is happening from around the world. this is "worldfocus." made possib, in part, by the following funders -- >>> good evening. i'm martin savidge. we begin tonight with the war in afghanistan, and a look apt the two main western military forces in that country. that's the united states and great britain. the toll of that war on british troops 8,000 of them in afghanistan has

gets the big 1,000 killed in afghanistan, not at 100 yet.nd frankly i know that part of the back of the envelope numbers of how long gates thinks that he can continue to go in afghanistan is before they hit those headlines. >> all righi want to move onto secretary of state, hillary clinton, her trip to asia. she began this trip by saying the united states was not going to focus on north korea. she sort of made that equation there like a spoiled child getting too much attention. then spent the rest of the trip talking about north korea. what goes on here? and does that do us any good in this relationship? >> i think not. i'm surety secretary of state would argue otherwise. but north korea is an extremely definite place to get any handle on at all. and by the way things have developed this meeting in asia about north korea, i think that the north koreans walk out the winners at least in short and medium term. >> did secretary of state clinton not expect across so well on this journey? >> i think she's had a difficult time over the last few mon

>> afghanistan f not least, we are increasing -- afghanistan, if not at least, we are increasing the military stand. we are increasing the foreign aid programs by 60%. we need to show that afghanistan is doing good. we have a base in kabul. we are doing more in security. we welcome. that is the line of the new american administration. >> what about this before the show began. you were talking about the popularity with the man on the street. the afghanistan mission, there is less support for it. that is an issue across europe. how do you make sure the public, your public, makes sure you support it over the long term? >> in somalia, we are protecting the delivery of food to civilians. it is obvious that has a vast public support. we are also stopping acts of piracy. afghanistan is a complicated story. we need to secure the support of the afghan people. we need to do better when it comes to foreign aid. we need to, as far as possible, limit civilian casualties in afghanistan. that is important for us in sweden. it is important for the public in afghanistan. we need to show that we need

soldier captured by the taliban in afghanistan. the pentagon identified him as private first-class bower. bergdahl. he was captured on june 30th in eastern afghanistan. in the 28-minute video, he says he is scared he won't be able to go home. i have my girlfriend who i was hoping to marry. i have my grandma and grandpas, i have a very, very good family that i love back home in america, and i miss them every day that i'm gone, i miss them, and i'm afraid that i might never see them again and that i'll never be able to tell them that i love them again, that i'll never be able to hug them. >> last week the u.s. military distributed two versions of pamphlets in eastern afghanistan to locate bergdahl. they were written in the pashto language. one picture shows him shaking hands with a message saying one of our men is missing. return the soldier to his home. the other one said if you don't release the soldier then you will be hunted. in a statement his family asks friend and family members to, quo, please continue to keep bowe in your th

forces and afghanistan. with that, i will be happy to take your questions. >> are you planning on sending more to supplement those? do expected to increase? >> as i said, we have two there now, and we have another one who is planning to arrive this weekend. but then, we also have this larger civilian effort over the next few months. >> so there will be something? >> the largest civilian effort is, and this is part of our plan to help afghanistan in general, i am not aware of where they will be positioned. >> the know how many civilians in afghanistan by the end of the year? >> i am not sure of the exact time line. the number is 450, but not sure exactly what the time line is. it could be a rolling thing. the could be according to transfers and redeployments. >> if i can go back to what you said that the secretary staying at home. when will she resume a normal schedule of the state department? what will the doctors say? can you confirm what she is not traveling, is it because of the elbow injury or another re

the indian corporation budget in afghanistan is growing.ve had public expressions of gratitude from the government of pakistan. >> the european union has suspended aid to honduras following the failure of talks to resolve the political crisis in the country. regional leaders have warned of potential bloodshed after the interim government in honduras rejected a proposal for the return of the ousted president zelaya. >>> of war crimes court has convicted cousins for a 1992 killing spree with least 119 muslims burned to death. the ringleader was sentenced to death for war crimes, including burning women to and children alive. his cousin was sentenced to 30 years. they were members of a paramilitary group called the white eagles or the avengers. >>> president obama honored the apollo 11 crew of the white house exactly 40 years after neil armstrong became the first man to set foot on the mend. president obama stopped short of promising new funding for nasa. that is in spite of the fact that his crew mates lobbied for more money to send a mission

they served our country and the people in afghanistan in desperately difficult situations ahead of the august presidential elections in that country. they will never be forgotten. mr. speaker, i hope that the house will understand if i take a moment to also offer for my condolences of the family and friends of those killed in the fire on friday. in answer to my right honorable friend, the government plans to publish a paper on care and support shortly. >> mr. speaker, i know that all members offer their condolences who have lost those families both in afghanistan those brave men. given that the costs and care associated with the aging of our already elderly population is in many respects an unfinished chapter in the history of the modern welfare state. and affects many families in all of our constituencies. would the leader of the house agree with me that we now need to develop quickly a robust social policy that will allow the spreading of both risks and costs? >> i very much agree with my right honorable friend who ever since he was in the policy studies center has drawn the attentio

there are new ones that will go to afghanistan by next year.he we have increased helicopters by 60% in the last two years and because we have increased the number of helicopters by having more staffed by trained to do so, i went to look at the preparations being made for the malik helicopters to get to afghanistan and i am satisfied. we both need to -- equip them with new blades and you to do special training of these forces in america. it is important to recognize what their commanders are staying on the ground. we've already increased our numbers of helicopters. and of course, what to do in future months. if you to put this in the same way to the people that you had mentioned, they would agree with me. >> prime minister, you say we have to listen to the commanders, but listen to the chief of the defense staff. more helicopters, he said last week, with hadley cell -- what patently save lives. he does not think we have enough. the fourth officer for afghanistan does not think we have enough. which is it? >> for the operation we are doing at the

the world have the trade afghanistan for 30 years. -- the world has betrayed afghanistan for 30 years. afghanistan has had a lost generation totally caught up in warfare among its own people with a lot of foreign elements. we stood by and watched. once we accomplished our goal of driving now the soviets, we did not care. that was the attitude we had in the 1990's. after we overthrew the taliban, secretary donald rumsfeld did not care much what happened. if you care about the afghan people, this idea of hands of does not work. there. -- does not work either. we do have to listen to your message. if this strategy does not work, i agree we need to abandon the effort. i think the current strategy will allow us to be more careful in the use of force because we have enough people walking the streets now. we do not need to use these big air bombing campaigns as we have sometimes in the past. the afghan people despise the alternative that would most likely result if we left. the popularity of the taliban is somewhere between 3% to 7%. the afghans have seen that world and they do not want it b

i'm not exactly where they will be positioned with in afghanistan. >> how many civilians in afghanistan the end of the year? do you have any idea? what i'm not sure of the exact time line. but the number is 450. >> if we can go back to the earlier point about the secretary, when will she resume a normal schedule? can the state department confirmed why she is not traveling to moscow? is it because of the elbow injury, or another region -- reason? >> you all saw her on monday. she is very actively involved in the operation of the department and advocating u.s. policy. she had a very full day yesterday. she attended a number of meetings, including a few public meetings. but as far as her medical prognosis, these are not the kind of details i am prepared to share. i do know that she is looking forward to resuming a fault -- a full schedule. i think she has a pretty full schedule anyway. you see that some days she is out, and other day she comes to the office, but she looks forward, for example, to coming -- going to india and southeast asia in a couple of weeks. >> she has just been busy, s

forces in afghanistan.e bloodiest month yet of this war, which has been going on for more than eight years since the overthrow of the taliban. at least 50 people killed, u.s. and nato service men and women over the course of this month and the month is still far from over and you still have some significant military operations under way here in this province, some 4,000 marines capturing opium fields, an area used by the taliban to funnel weapons and fighters and drugs from the nearby pakistani border up into central afghanistan. t. j.? >> our ivan watson there for us in afghanistan. we appreciate your and the updates here about what's happening there. a civilian helicopter that went down. >> we have very little information as to exactly what happened, what brought that down. what we know, there was no hostile fire but we're getting a lot of wire reports as to what might have occurred. >> we'll keep on top of that as soon as we get more information. we'll pass it along to you. also, news out of afghanistan,

i hope the all-party agreement on what we do in afghanistan and what we have to do to defeat afghanistanwill remain in being. i hope that we will recognize in this particular exercise operation panthers claw, we are doing everything we can and will continue to do that to support our brave and courageous armed forces who are both professional and determined and will have all our support. >> mark todd. >> will my right honorable friend reflect on the decision of the ministry of defense to appeal against the judgment which would allow hearings of cases of nuclear test veterans seeking compensation against the ministry for injury that they or their relatives may have suffered as a consequence of their exposure to nuclear explosion? >> i will, of course, look at this. but as he knows, these are legal matters. they are matters that have ended up in the courts and we've got to look very carefully at what we do. >> mr. nick klegg? >> mr. speaker, after everything that's happened over the last few months people are crying out for change. yet, we have a spectacle of a prime time busy doing nothing

forces in afghanistan. thank you for joining us again. >> a pleasure. >> in a report that you wrote about your trip you say that the taliban and al qaeda are winning in afghanistan. how so? >> they've been in a position where they lose when they actually encounter nato and isaf forces. but at the same time they have steadily expanded the areas they occupy, they've expanded their political influence, they've expanded their control over the economy. in many parts of the country, they effectively run the justice system. they're the only real visible presence of government. and they move from areas along the east and the south up into the center, into the west, in the valleys in the north. when you look at map of afghanistan in 2005 and 2009, the area under taliban influences increase by more than nine times. and in recent years it's virtually increased by 50% to 100% a year. they're winning the battle of political attrition. and in a counterinsurgency, that's what counts. >> and yet you also write that the nat

in afghanistan, he sent -- he is ending in more and those troops are arriving in afghanistan right now. the commanders on the ground wanted more. so he tried to strike a balance on both of these. whenever you strike a balance on war footing, it's a difficult thing to do. >> governor, final thoughts on this? >> i just think he will not be held accountable for iraq. that was president bush as war. afghanistan is his war. he said that is the good war. we are sending in more troops. i think that is the political liability for the president. we must define what we need by success and figure out how to get enough troops to air -- accomplish the success and if two years from now, people will say afghanistan is your iraq and i think that is the political crisis he afronts. >> what has he done well international sfli you say the first six months -- >> diplomacy. with his election, his personality, his background, the -- immediately -- >> he sucked anti-americanism out of the air? >> that has been overwhelmingly the biggest, which isn't anything he did. it is who he is. just his election sent a

but afghanistan is not like the u.s. or the u.k., it's a society that is 174th in the world development index, with no long-term history of centralized government of the sort that you or i might recognize. i think the president karzai has outlined a very clear vision for his country and we have to help him make sure that he's aable to put it into practice. critically that means ensuring that different parts of the 34 provincees of afghanistan, there are clean, noncorrupt governments able to lead change in those provinces. >> ifill: he seems to be more focused on the idea of civilian casualties and what allied forces can do to reduce that. are you with him on that? >> that's important. every time that afghan civilian is killed by our forces, by the taliban, that obviously is a major loss to all of us. i think we've got to remember though that the number of civilian casualties is far outweighed by the number being killed by the taliban, but nonetheless it's a real issue. the yen mccrystal, the newly appointed commander of the intern

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in iraq, and afghanistan. and you know, i frank think stewart bowen, the special -- former special inspector general for iraq reconstruction did a fantastic job, but from my visits to afghanistan, i think that the situation there and the inspector general in afghanistan is far less able, he's newer, his team is newer, but far less able to police the contracting situation there, so, i am very apprehensive about our ability to lose money. in afghanistan and to waste it. just through incompetence as well as through fraud. one of the earliest hearings we had in here, back in 2003, 2004, on iraq, i asked the director for the dcaa, the defense contracting audit agency, i said, how many contractors -- excuse me, how many auditors do you have in iraq? and he said we don't have any. and at this point, we had -- are spending billions of dollars there. billions. and i said, how does that work, then? and he said, well, we are auditing our work and our contracts in iraq from alexandria, virginia. which explained why, you k

in neighboring afghanistan, where u.s. marines are conducting a major operation in southern helmand province, the u.s. commander says they are encountering more taliban resistance after only sporadic fighting in the first weeks of the operation. one issue for the americans is a shortage of supplies. ann scott tyson of "the washington post" is with the marines in helmand and writes -- "u.s. marines are short of basic equipment and supplies ranging from radios and vehicles to uniforms. critical supplies of food, water and ammunition are being dropped to troops by helicopters ferrying sling-loads to bypass roads implanted with bombs. several marines from one company, for example, ripped their pants during an arduous foot march and are still waiting for replacements, some in boxer shorts." for british forces in afghanistan, the problem is a shortage of helicopters themselves, a problem underscored today in a report by the british parliament, as we hear in this report from james blake of itn. >> reporter: this helicopter has ju

ivan watson, cnn, reporting from helmand province in southern afghanistan. >>> well, afghanistan just hasn't cornered the world's heroin market, it owns. since 9/11, it is reported that afghans have been responsible for 90% of the hair wayne sold worldwide. it's fertile ground for the dea and that what brings me to my guest in arlington, virginia, thomas harrigan is assistant administrator and chief of operations. he's going to be sending a number of more agents to afghanistan. tom, i just have to ask you, learning about this, reading about this, seeing these reports coming out of afghanistan from our ivan watson are should be more concerned about terrorists breeding in afghanistan and coming here and killing us, or the growth of heroin getting into the hands of drug dealers over here and killing us that way? >> well, obviously, kyra, both of those are major concerns to us. what we're trying to do in the dea, in close consultation with the department of state, with ambassador holbrooke with ambassador eichenberry is send several additional agents to afghanistan, not just to kabul, but