group to the northern alliance and u.s. special forces on the go to see who lives would be spared. today up to three thousand. in the more green. and you mackenzie is a human rights lawyer who actually visited the site in two thousand and two and he joined me a little bit earlier from london i asked him to tell me a bit about what he saw there take a listen so i accompanied the filmmaker gini go to the site does he like me. evidence that pointed to the floor i went there jamie dornan show me video he taken previously of that's the lie of the wealth witnesses who said they had been there including one guy who stated that they being part of the killing so when i arrived at the sites i thought. unfortunately i found a human remains sticking out of the grub ben hits which covered the vast expanse of the i think were and i also thought and read a few of these which are spared cartridges one from what he thought he said and one from a smaller semiautomatic and what was interesting about these is that they corroborated what witnesses said the some of the thought these had not been dead wh

reporter: mohammed fasal turned himself into the northern alliance in november, 2001 proclaiming a desire for peace. weeks later he was captured at the prison where a riot broke out in november and cia operative mike span was killed, the first u.s. casualty of the war. he is a legend in pentagon corridors. military officials have been tight limited about the proposed release of fasal. "the united states continues to support an afghan led process of reconciliation that would end the insurgency. we in the afghan government have been clear about the conditions that would need to be met. insurgents would need to break from al-qaeda, abandon violence and abide by the afghan constitution." the former vice chief of the u.s. army had this reaction from kabul. >> the white house is pushing for reconciliation as a way to terminate our involvement in afghanistan much more rapidly. reporter: afghan president hamid karzai is so distrustful of u.s. efforts to reconcile with the taliban that he pulled out of those efforts recently after hearing the u.s. was pushing to allow the taliban to open an office

-allied northern alliance forces. spann was not a soldier but rather a c.i.a. officer. >> i've always thought of our officers, particularly since 9/11, many of our officers i would describe as soldiers without uniforms. >> spann inspired the c.i.a. officers memorial foundation. the money raised helps pay for the education of children and in some cases the widows of fallen intelligence ops. officers are now asking the public to donate. spann was in afghanistan just 16 days after the 9/11 attacks. he was returned to the u.s. and buried in arlington national cemetery, leaving behind a wife and three children. >> not everybody is skilled or has the desire to go to faraway places to fight in wars. but all of us have the skills and should have the desire to serve our country by being good. and mike was certainly one of those. >> since spann's death in 2001, 23 stars have been added to the wall at langley, honoring those lost. toyota unveiled a futuristic car this week with a side that looks like a giant touch-screen phone. the experimental fun-vii, which stands for "

breakfast before but in time after more phones and some of them songs will soon run good to the northern alliance and u.s. special forces underground in t.v. but the rights would be spared. today up to three thousand roubles men line and remark doesn't agree and he repente as a human rights lawyer who actually participated in the investigation back in two thousand and two and he joins me now from london thank you for coming on the show on fly understand you paid a visit to the site what did you discover yes i was invited to go up. to begin with i was invited by the filmmaker james taylor to look at the evidence he leds which was if you have it and saw the dust like the sites it was interviews with that is i mean this is and it was you know testimonies including one guy he said he was actually in full killings selling that i went with jamie dornan to afghanistan and was it dusty lightly did they thought there were both these there there were hundreds if not thousands that an exact number still disputed it was your remains sticking out of the ground underneath my feet there where. there was evidenc

conference in december in 2002 -- 2001, was of course no inclusion of the taliban goes mostly northern alliance and was a problem from the beginning. and still, we did a better job than any empire before. i mean, you can go to the soviet union. we did create a constitution. that has never been done before. and so far, you would have a starting point. how to create this national unity approach is a critical issue here. and how to include the pashtun in a meaningful way. that you seem to be optimistic. i would like to hear a little bit more of your reasoning why you think this is possible and why it is useful to reach the goal to drop, let's say, the conference in december, which will try to make enough to civilize and demilitarize the whole country. that's what we have to do. he militarized the whole thing. that, you know, the military can only achieve so much. and the issue, you know, was much more of a civilian after and maybe some other forces and regular military forces. they demilitarize the whole constitution. and so, i don't get the point of using the one conference because coming in now,

photographs riding with the northern alliance up in northern afghanistan against the taliban and i thought that looks like oss. so i thought maybe there's a story here. >> your father lived what years? >> he lived 1920 to 1996 born as an army brat never really lived in the same place. i think very formative years in china which was really just before the invasion. so he had a tate for the orient. he ts kind of void you find on the edge of the ground saluting and watching solders go by. >> i wrote down a quote. he was quiet. he had opinion bus he wasn't pushing them on you. and his favorite expression when we would argue, and we would argue about the war and just about everything but especially the vietnam war. if you get your points across and he would get his and he knew a bit more about it than i did. he would say fair enough, as if well i respect your opinion just get my opinion a shot as well. and i always remember that about him. mother believe it or not his father traded with sitting bull. so he grew up in army bases and went to princeton at the age of 16. he never looked back. he wa

forces teamed up with the northern alliance to overthrow the taliban. and he is considered a high risk detainees the deputy defense chief and is wanted for murder of thousands of afghan shiite muslims between 1998 and 2001 as the taliban commander. trace? >>trace: what about the reaction from the pentagon and the intelligence community? >>reporter: they are remaining tightlipped because this initiative is coming from the president. but, pentagon spokesman george little said and i quote, "the united states continues to support an afghanistan led process of reconciliation that ends the insubject answer and we and the afghan government have been cleared about the conditions that need to be met and insurgents need to be break from al qaeda and abide by the afghanistan constitution." but the deal is getting attention on cap could because he was captured ne prison where riot broke out in november of 2001 and c.i.a. operative was killed, the first u.s. casualty of the war. he is a legend this these halls at the pentagon. president karzai not happy about the wa

. >> he turned himself in to the northern alliance in 2001. proclaiming his desire for peace.er he was captured at the prison where riots broke out in no.. cia operative mike span was killed, the first u.s. casualty of the war. military officials have been tight-lipped about the proposed release. pentagon spokesman george little issued a statement. "the united states continues to support an afghan-led process of reconciliation. it would end the insurgency. we and the afghan government have been clear about the conditions that would need to be met. insurgents would need to break from al-qaeda, abandon violence and abide by the afghan constitution. the former vice chief of the u.s. army general jack keen had this reaction from kabul. >> the white house is pushing for reconciliation as a way to terminate our involvement in afghanistan much more rapidly. >> afghan president hamid karzai so distrustful of the u.s. efforts to reconcile with the taliban that he pulled out of the efforts recently after hearing the u.s. pushing qatar to allow the taliban to open office in the gulf stat

the northern alliance opposition movements don't trust him. in addition to building, reaching out to the taliban, president karzai needs to reach out to his own opposition in the country. i think improving the performance of his own government would be a really good first step in that direction. >> woodruff: we will leave it there. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> ifill: still to come >> ifill: still to come on the newshour, the crackdown on protesters in russia; the move to turn around detroit; the dangerous job of a hockey enforcer; and the massive black holes in giant galaxies. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama condemned economic inequality today, and declared that it is a "make or break moment" for the american middle class. he spoke in osawatomie, kansas, where theodore roosevelt delivered his "new nationalism" speech in 1910, calling for progressive reforms. in his speech today, the president painted republicans as obstacles to progress. >> they want to go

forces teamed up with the northern alliance to overthrow the taliban. he is considered high-risk because he is wanted as you mentioned for the murder of hundreds, if not thousands of afghan shiite muzz limbs between 1998 and 2001 as a taliban commander, jon. jon: what about the pentagon and the intelligence community folks? do they think giving this guy back to the afghans is a good idea? >> reporter: well they're pretty tight-lipped here at the pentagon about this certainly officials i've spoken to have serious concerns. right now the spokesman, george little of the pentagon, issued this statement. quote. the united states continues to support an afghan-led process of reconciliation that would end the insurgency. we and the afghan government have been clear about the conditions that would need to be met and they would need to break from al qaeda, abandon vie ends are and abide by the afghan constitution. but the deal is getting attention on capitol hill, jon, because it is a political hot potato. he was captured in the prison where cia operative, john

three or four months with merely embedded troops that the united states asked the war lords, the northern alliance to disarm. and they did. and now here it was a year and a half ago, they're saying, you may not be aware but your administration, the obama administration is indirectly negotiating with the taliban right now. we know. and you're negotiating with them and pakistan and a corrupt karzai administration and who is going to be hurt out of all of this? your allies. those who fought with you, who defeated the taliban initially and now you're about to turn things over to the people who will kill your allies. do you want that message going around the world that to be an ally with the united states means you ultimately will be abandoned and the enemies of your allies will be allowed to kill your allies? be hard to get allies if you do that. this administration is looking at an election year, this is no time to give in to terrorists. when president bush says, i hear you, and in essence said, and soon those who did this will hear from us, i can't imagine that he ever believed a president and admin

there were few of us that met with leaders of the northern alliance year and-a-half or so ago and they told us your administration is indirectly meeting and negotiating with terrorists, with the taliban, with the people we fought with you to defeat. and after we defeated them and in three, four months, then we started putting in tens of thousands of soldiers, military, into afghanistan and went from being embedded to being occupy years and we oversaw the creation of a constitution in afghanistan that says sharia law will reign when true sharia law is in charge. one of the things that were found in the archives in the muslim brotherhood and have a 10-year goal that was founded in 2005. anybody that raises any issue about people that the tiny percentage of muslims who are at war with us, the radical islamists, anybody who raises anything about the radical islamists is to be called an islamaphobe, and that was composed of 57 states, 57 states, and they are the ones that came up with that and they came up with the notion of branding anyone who says anything negative about radical islam try

the pentagon says mistakes led to nato airstrikes in northern pakistan that killed twenty four soldiers every pore by the u.s. government the alliance was retaliating against what it thought was an insurgent attack the u.s. blamed the incident on poor coordination with pakistani border forces the attack of amber put significant strain on relations between washington and islamabad causing the pakistani government to close border routes into neighboring afghanistan. rival palestinian factions have made a significant step towards reconciliation with a must will join the palestinian liberation organization hamas and fatah also agree to hold an election next year to create a single government for both the west bank and gaza the breach between the two groups has been an obstacle to peacemaking efforts with israel took power in gaza in two thousand and seven leaving palestinian president mahmoud abbas to govern only the west bank. hearing of a u.s. soldier bradley manning accused of causing the biggest national security leak in history as adjourned to decide whether the nineteen year old private will face court martial manning is charged w

the pentagon says mistakes led to nato airstrikes in northern pakistan to kill twenty four soldiers a report by the u.s. government said the alliance was retail using against what it thought was an insurgent attack the u.s. blamed the incident on poor coordination with pakistani border forces the attack in a van were put significant strain on relations between washington and islamabad causing the pakistani government to close the border routes into neighboring afghanistan. a five point eight magnitude earthquake has shaken christ church in southern new zealand provoking a mass evacuation of public buildings despite the strength of the quake no casualties have been reported and no tsunami warning has been issued the city has still not fully recovered from a quake that killed almost two hundred people and caused billions of dollars of damage in february. rival palestinian factions have made a significant step towards reconciliation with the announcement hamas will join the palestinian liberation organization hamas and fatah also agree to hold an election next year to grade a single government for both the west bank and gaza the breac

the pentagon says mistakes led to nato airstrikes in northern pakistan that killed twenty four soldiers a report by the u.s. government said the alliance was retaliating against what it thought was an insurgent attack the u.s. blamed years ago and on poor coordination with pakistani border forces the attack in november put significant strain on relations between washington and islamabad causing the pakistani government to close border routes into neighboring afghanistan. a five point eight magnitude earthquake has shaken the christ church in southern new zealand provoking a mass evacuation of public buildings despite the strength of the quake no casualties have been reported no tsunami warning issued either but the city has still not fully recovered from a quake that killed almost two hundred and caused billions of dollars of damage that was back in february. which could have you with us today here in r.t. we're looking back at some of the major events of two thousand and eleven today we remember the fatal plane crash that took the lives of the entire jaroslav all locomotive hockey team in russia most talked about the grief and sorrow

alliances infantrymen who are fire in a nearby federate banks. by the time abraham lincoln driving east in 1864 to come in the entire union army and to oppose robert e. lee in northern virginia, he was communicating with his corps commanders by telegraph from his headquarters miles behind the front. contrary to the myth he was often drunk, and no time during the war with the incapable of affect of action to to consuming alcohol. i see at the top of this page he hammered note that says, take a drink of water whether you think you need it or not. [laughter] meteoric rise among union generals, grandpa only developed enormous administrative skills but became a great strategist. more than any other general on either side, he understood servers that this word integral part of vast battlefield area and could be used as avenues for penetrating and cutting up confederacy. lincoln described in this way. once grant gets hold of the place, he acts as if he had inherited. among the great impressions of grant that is mistaken is that he really wasn't very bright. during the last are the work he created an inc. and was headquartered at city point virginia what he called the bureau