no one had yet penetrated the secretive world of bacha bazi, but najibullah was heading to northern afghanistan to meet a group of men who had agreed to take him inside the dancing boy culture. near the northern city of takhar, he arranged to meet one of those men, called dastager. >> quraishi: to expose the world of bacha bazi, first i had to get inside it. so i had decided to tell dastager that we were making a film about this same custom in europe, and we were interested to see how it was practiced in afghanistan. dastager seemed to accept this explanation. >> narrator: during the war against the russians, dastager was a mujahideen commander. today, he's a very successful businessman. he owns a car dealership in takhar, importing vehicles from the far east, along with a string of other businesses. a respectable businessman and a devout muslim by day, at night, he leads a double life. >> narrator: dastager invited najibullah to meet one of his favorite dancing boys. imam is 15 years old and is a veteran performer. ♪ ♪ >> narrator: imam was borrowed from his owner for this small party, staged

three german soldiers have been killed in northern afghanistan. that news broke as the german minister ride for a three day visit. 39 soldiers have been killed since 2002. the deployment is still unpopular with large parts of the german public. police in russia suspect a 17- year-old is one of the suicide bombers who blew herself up on the metro. she was the widow of a leading militant killed by security forces. 40 people died in the attack on two underground stations in russia. >> staring defiantly into the camera lens, this 17-year-old is the suspected suicide bomber behind the first attack on the metro on monday. dzhennet abdurakhmanova has been linked to the explosion. 20 people were killed in that attack and a further 19 in a separate explosion 14 minutes later. her identity has not been confirmed by russian police but her image of bears a strong resemblance to the remains of one of the suicide bombers. two further suicide bombings took place in dagestan on thursday. this is where the two women responsible for the terrorist attacks on monday

>> where the country was after the taliban had left northern afghanistan. what the country was like, how people were attempting to rebuild, the efforts to create a new government. >> how many times did you return? >> i have been there seven times. pretty much every year. >> why? >> i was sucked in. it captured my imagination. i formed strong bonds with the family and have a hard time -- i didn't feel my time was done. it had such an impact and coming back to the united states i felt discombobulated. this experience was different from anything i had known and i felt a need to learn more about the country and my own sense of balance. i feel somewhat lost having done it and coming back to a place that was so different. >> was your reporting done in the kansas city star? >> done primarily for the kansas city star which 32 other newspapers, then i started freelancing and working for some smaller magazines like the virginia quarterly review or missouri review and personal essays which -- about my personal experience, my thoughts about people that don't normally g

>> i was really talking about where the country was after the television had left northern afghanistan, what the country was like, how people were attempting to rebuild, the efforts to create a new government, which is now the karzai government. >> how many times did you return? >> since 2001 have been there seven times. pretty much every year after. >> why? >> i was just sucked in. they captured my imagination. i formed strong bonds. i had a hard time just leaving. i did not feel my time there was done. i had such an impact. coming back to the united states i felt somewhat discombobulated. i had this experience that was radically different from anything that i had known and felt the need to go back there to learn more about the country and also for my own sense of balance. i just feel somewhat lost having done it and coming back to a place that was so different. >> was your reporting done all in the kansas city star? >> initially it was time for the kansas city star. then i started freelancing and began working for smaller magazines such as the virginia quarterly review submitting per

>> it was really talking about where the country was after the taliban had left northern afghanistan, what the country was like, how people were attempting to rebuild, the efforts to create a new government which is now the karzai government. >> how many times did you return? >> since 2001 i've been there seven times. pretty much every year after that. >> why? >> i was just sucked in. it just captured my imagination. i formed strong bonds with roe and his family and i had a hard time leaving. i didn't feel my time there was done. it had such an impact and coming back to the united states, i felt discombobulated. i have is experience that was radically different from anything i'd known and i felt the need to go back there to learn more about the country and also for my own sense of balance. i think i felt like they needed to stay there. i felt somewhat lost in having coming back to place it was so different. >> was your reporting done in the "kansas city star"? >> initially was done primarily for knight ridder newspapers which of at that time owned a star in 32 other newspapers and the

to a police officer, at a checkpoint or if you want to be the police chief of a district in northern afghanistanou have to pay $50,000, it's one thing after another. the government doesn't work very well and it's not in very many places. >> i agree with dexter that i think it's generally a good plan. i think the one place where you hear battalian and brigade commanders complain is that they would like to have a bottom-up strategy a little bit in regard to governance and their hands are really tied because the district governors -- essentially, the low-level leaders are centrally chosen by kabul and i think they would like to have a little bit more freedom to work around kabul to build a sort of base of support to allow locals to choose their own leadership and that's been a tricky thing for them. >> yeah, you mentioned marjah, marjah is not a district but the local governor appointed by karzai, he has a criminal record, he was in jail for stabbing his son and that's kind of -- >> charlie: what can you do to change this? what do they think they can do to change this? >> i think -- they talk about

partners there, we are now able to move about 50% of supplies that we need in afghanistan over those five routes of the northern distribution network. that compares to the two routes that come up from the coast of pakistan into afghanistan, and one of them is about 600 miles long and one of them is about 1,200 miles long from the coast. i was in afghanistan just last week to check on our troops and to see firsthand how the movement of equipment is going. i went on patrol with some of the troops who are securing some -- one of those routes up to the gate that comes through pakistan and things seem to be moving extraordinarily well. those northern routes have given us a great deal of relief and additional capacity. if any of the routes are blocked by weather or any action -- by weather or enemy action. >> i wonder if you would talk about the analysis that goes into looking at, for example, a humvee to say that this is still good quality and to go on to afghanistan or this is about a worn and should be left behind in iraq -- battle-worn and should be left behind in iraq. >> thanks for the question. we have a large

partners we are now able to move about 50% of the supplies that we need in afghanistan are being moved over the five routes along the northern distribution network. that compares to the routes that come up from the coast of pakistan into afghanistan, and one of them is about 600 miles long and one of them is 1200 miles long from the coast. i was in afghanistan just last week to see how first hand that movement of equipment is going and i went on patrol with some of the troops who were securing one of the routes up to the gate that goes through pakistan and things seem to be moving extraordinarily well so those northern routes have given a great deal of relief and additional capacity if any of them are blocked by whether or any action. >> mikey manuel from fox news. i wondered if you could talk a little bit about the analysis that goes into looking at for example a humvee to say this is still good quality that should go on to afghanistan or this is battle one and should mabey be left behind in iraq or whether it should be used for scrap just to get a sense for the viewers and the leaders at home in terms of the careful analys

northern iraq. and a nato servicemember died in fighting in eastern afghanistan.he taliban also released video of a u.s. army private first class bowe bergdahl. he's been missing in afghanistan since last june. in the message, bergdahl pleaded to be sent home. meanwhile, afghan police said they arrested five would-be suicide bombers in kabul early this morning. they found explosives stashed below the engine block of the men's vehicle. heavy rains overnight triggered massive mudslides near rio de janeirio in brazil. at least 200 people were buried and feared dead. rescue workers searched for victims in a slum that was built on top of a landfill. officials said that made the ground especially unstable, under recent heavy rains. mudslides earlier this week already had killed at least 153 people and left thousands homeless. united airlines and u.s. airways may try again to merge. it was widely reported today the two carriers are in talks to combine-- creating the nation's second largest carrier. delta is the largest. united and u.s. airways also considered merging in

>> it is different than afghanistan there is one location in a group of men who came to northern lebanon and i think you can explain that it is easy for them to get across the border to go from iraq to syria to lebanon it is not so easy this time with enter poll. remember how many american soldiers were in iraq and they were very diligent in taking names and they have an amazing amount of data that did not have been in afghanistan i think it will be a little harder than it was and the model is an interesting one to watch whether these young man who are trained and that urban where -- warfare can come back to their countries and caused the trouble they could do after afghanistan. i think the model will be different because they expected to come and they're watching very hard about anybody who has been inside iraq and tries to come home. certainly the saudis are watching that very closely because they had their own trouble with a saudi version of al qaeda so the last thing they want is any of these young men to come back into saudi arabia so they're watching the borders a lot closer than t

they can see the tactics that are being used in iraq and afghanistan creates a risk that those will be copycatted here. we've seen that in northernexico, the criminal groups which are not politically motiva motivated, actually have adopted be headings and other tap ticks of terrorism for pushing their agenda against president calderon. >> senator lieberman you've heard the president say he would like to see sanctions against iran within weeks, but that's still been a very difficult road. do you worry that the u.s. and the west more generally is drifting toward war with iran in some fashion? >> well, i appreciated the president's statement. i tell you the truth, i worry more we won't do enough to stop iran from developing a nuclear weapon quickly enough. i believe we're at a turning point in history. iran with nuclear weapons is going to mean this world will be a lot less safe than it is today. there are already threats to our safety every day. this is an extremist, expansionist power. there's never been another country like this with nuclear weapons. we've got to impose tough sanctions quickly. i believe congress will adopt a tou

for afghanistan, look at every piece of the pipe, all the way through -- up the -- in the case of ground transportation, up the two ground lines of communication, to -- from karachi, over the northern distribution network, a couple of branches of that, up through russia, the baltics first and russia and the stands, over the caucuses and then in through the stands. and then the intratheater transport, whether by intratheater airlift or the very challenging job of getting on the roads in afghanistan, and moving things around from one place to another. so every day is an effort to widen those arteries, every day is an effort to get equipment into afghanistan and the people who do this work are truly premarkble. and i might -- my office is filled with messages about bottled water or fuel or toiletries or whatever. tents, containers for troops to live in, containers for the contractors to live in, so that they can support the troops. containers for the people who ship the containers to live in. everything is like that. and you can't just show up in a bob with a sleeping bag. l/@ú2j@hzúz cities, container cities going up there to support what the -- the effort, which this summer is going

logistics for afghanistan look at every piece of the pipe all of the way through -- up in the case of ground transportation up to two lines of ground communication to torkham and shahman, over the northern distribution network and a couple of branches of that up through russia and the baltics first and russia. over the caucuses and then in through the stands. and then in the intratheater transport, while by air lift or the challenging job of getting on the roads in afghanistan and moving things around from one place to another. so every day is an effort to widen those arteries. every day is an effort to get equipment into afghanistan. the people who do this work are truly remarkable. and my office is filled with messages about bottled water or fuel or toiletries or whatever. build an intense container for troops to live in. containers for the contractors

afghanistan. there has been one location, fatah al-islam, and this was a clip of men who came to northern lebanon. and i think you can explain that in that it is easy for them to get across those borders to go from iraq to syria to lebanon. it is not so easy this time. remember how many american soldiers were in iraq and they were very, very diligent and taking names, doing all i riss scams. they have an amazing amount of data that did not happen in afghanistan. so i think it's going to be a little harder than it was at the model is an interesting one to watch. whether these young man who's now been trained in urban warfare will be able to see back into their countries and cause the kind of trouble that they were able to do after afghanistan. i think the model is going to be different simply because many states have seen it before. the expected to come and are watching hard anybody who has been inside iraq and then tries to come home. certainly the saudis are watching that very closely because they have had their own trouble with a saudi version of al qaeda, the franchise that opens in saudi arabi

afghanistan. and officials say german troops accidently killed a six afghan soldiers after mistaking them for the taliban. we're told it happened today during clashes with insurgents in the northernince. three german soldiers also died in that fighting. the afghan defense ministry releasing a statement condemning the incident. officials say they are planning to investigate. meanwhile afghan president harmid karzai lashing out against the west for the second time this week. that's according to the "wall street journal." in a meeting today with afghan leaders karzai reportedly accused the u.s. of interfering in afghan affairs and fueling the taliban. this just three days after karzai accused western powers of orchestrating voter fraud in last year's afghan election. he seemed to smooth over a phone call with secretary of state hillary clinton. this latest tirade suggest relations are strained. a herald is embedded with a group of marines. a look into the country's mass yum opium trade considered to fuel the insurgency. tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox. supreme court justice john paul stevens says he likely will retire while president obama is still in office. stevens

afghanistan first. we have been concerned about it ever since the first trip i took one year ago. what is going to happen in northerniraq? it is clear that the only thing that the sunni and shia agree on is that they do not like the kurds, and how that will work out. we went up to kirkuk, and things are on a hair trigger. the iraqi troops, they just got a new general. when you went away for the briefing, you had the idea that within three or four months, people were going to be shooting. the quality of our military is incredible, and an example is general odierno, who is absolutely incredible. when he did, he went up there, and as you know, there is a piece of land that is under dispute. it is where the kurds were pushed out, and they think they should be able to come back. there also has to be about one- third of the oil that is under this particular piece of land, so it is serious. things started breaking up, and what general odierno did was, he said, "ok, from now on," and i think there are over 20 checkpoints, when they go on patrols, they go in three. we went where saddam was caught. where they go, there are th

one of the big problems in iraq and afghanistan first we have been concerned about ever since the first trip i took a year ago was northern iraq what's going to happen to northern iraq. it's clear the only thing that the sunnis and shia agree on is they don't like the current and how that will work out and we went there we went up to kirkuk last year things went trigger. the head of the cashmere got there which the kurdish army did not like the iraqi troops and the just got a new general and he did not like. when you go to a briefing and have the feeling of the next three or four months people are going to be shooting. the quality of the mother teresa is incredible and an example as general odierno who is absolutely incredible group, a piece of land under dispute, an area where they were pushed out by saddam and he brought and arabs to take their place and they think they should be able to come back and have that land. this is a cultural issue but also it has to be almost a third of the oil in iraq under this particular piece of land. things started breaking up and win the general went up there and grab it and said okay f

afghanistan, the one in iraq and the border war on our southern border. the $40 billion a year illicit drug trade in mexico has resulted in a vicious wave of violence in northern mexico. over 18,000 mexican nationals have been killed in recent years by the criminal drug cartels. most of those innocent civilians but also many of them are the competition among the drug cartels. and they're fighting for control of the roots that -- routes that lead into the united states where those drug cartels can sell their wares. just a few days ago there was a bombing at the united states embassy just on the border. recently a pregnant u.s. embassy employee and her husband were murdered right in front of their young daughter and other witnesses. and in 2008 there were 1,500 murders in juarez, mexico, alone, and this year over 500 people have been killed. to put it in perspective, in 2008 there were only 300 murders in all of houston, a city that dwarfs the size of juarez, mexico, and the violence is escalating. good people are abandoning the border cities in mexico and fleeing further into the interior and some are fleeing to the united states to stay with relatives all beca