of thursday in maastricht meeting with defense ministers from troop contributing nations in southern afghanistan. on thursday afternoon he will then fly over to brussels, where he will participate in the quarterly meeting of nato defense ministers. they will discuss a range of organizational and security issues confronting the alliance but as you might expect, the nato operations in afghanistan will likely dominate their discussions. third and finally, the secretary returns to washington d.c. on friday evening and then early saturday morning heads up to washington state were later that afternoon he will deliver the commencement address at the university of washington, which i believe is an open president although i will not beheading out there myself. and i think that is it. ann. >> what can you tell us about the status of the investigation into the-- in afghanistan, where, where does the investigation stand and to what degree has the inquiry found u.s. forces culpable? >> the anchor aires stands, i think it is wrapped up. it is being briefed to a number of people within this building. i think t

decisions nor did i see the interview briefing sarich ase has done a lot of great work in southern afghanistan but in terms of the rumor of the cia involvement, this is something i heard all the time over and over one of the reasons the u.s. was not stopping the drug trade was because our agents were secretly involved. i even had a governor, no less than a governor he was not even a bozo he was a very serious individual tell me he thought there was a deal between the bin laden family and the bush family to move drugs out of the reason -- region because not only is the u.s. doing so little to stop its attacks the resisting efforts to stop it. that will be one of the great conspiracy theories from the region sort of like who shot kennedy? >> i do not want to sound conspiratorial. >> buydown either i avoid getting sucked into the theories but it is fascinating when you start seeing pakistani is in senior positions that are convinced there is a grand conspiracy going on between the cia and drug smugglers i never found anything that proved it but you see a lot of stories. >> it sounds like to see a

and nato forces in southern afghanistan. flf also been reports that 61 detainees processed and released from guantanamo bay were recaptured fighting american forces. those individuals were deemed safe to release from custody, yet returned to terrorist activities and killing americans. what does that say about how dangerous the detainees still at guantanamo bay must be? a recent "new york times" article indicated that one of every seven low-security prisoners released from guantanamo bay were recaptured on foreign battlefields fighting american forces. what does this say about the threat from the media and -- medium and high security detainees still being held. i was also to troubled to read that five guantanamo detainees described themselves as, quote, terrorist to the bone, end of quote and stated in a court filing that they described their role in the 9/11 attacks as, quote, a badge of honor. these dangerous individuals simply cannot be transferred anywhere near a large civilian population. khalid chic mohammed -- khalid s

approaches we are trying, one of the things we just had agreement with the nato forces in afghanistan, of of southern zones of afghanistan is to work on the highest districts that seem to be sustaining transmission of polio in afghanistan, to reach sufficient children in a safe enough environment to get the job finished. from a technical perspective, we are -- the data are brand-new, can we accelerate the eradication initiative with of polio vaccine that targets the type i lira and the type iii in one vaccine? we are taking the time ii component out. this is a picture of me making the vaccine. you can see in this graphic how promising this might be. the final push to limit eradication. you see on the far left, this is the response after two doses of a bivalent vaccine and  similarly, a similar result for type iii, this is data we got last week, looked superior to the trivalent vaccine, type i and takes iii and not in theory to the monovalent vaccine, there's not a statistical difference but this may simplify the logistics of reaching kids in sub-saharan africa with more efficacious vaccines and als

approaches we are trying one of the things we just had an agreement with nato and isaf forces in afghanistan, southern zones is to work with us on days of tranquillity in the 11 highest risk -- districts seem to be sustaining transition to china in reach sufficient children in a safe enough environment to get the job finished there. from a technical perspective we are just -- this data is brand-new, looking at is accelerating the eradication initiative with a new polio vaccine that targets of the type and polio and the type three together in one vaccine. we're taking the time to come gone out and these are results -- this is a picture of me making the vaccine, that his colleagues in india, but here you can see in this graphic here just out promising this tool might be in a final push to finish your avocation. what to see at the far left and the red graphic how much this is the response after two doses of eight monovalent vaccine or trivalent vaccine against type one polio and similarly results for the type three. this new vaccine, data we got last week, look like superior to the trivalent vaccine for

afghanistan has become the u.s. military's main effort and central front. the president has authorized 21,000 additional u.s. troops, including 10,000 marines in the southern part of the country reinforcing our british, canadian, australian, dutch, and danish allies. president obama has ordered a new civil military strategy focused on protecting the afghan people and appointed a new leadership team. our goal is and afghanistan that does not provide is in short to al qaeda, that rejects the role of the taliban and has a government that looks towards the needs and security of the people. the government is all our -- sending more than 400 civilians to the country, most of whom will be deployed for the road construction team and various other units labor into being -- bring improvements to the people of afghanistan. with the new strategy, we in our -- international and afghan partners will have capacity to make real headway. of course the situation in afghanistan cannot be in isolation from its neighbors. the taliban resurgence began when pakistan made peace agreements with various insurgents and extremist groups on our western border. this allows for more fre

afghanistan. what i found is that since 2001 they have increased their activities the city the drug trade. they collect tax in the southern areas almost 10% of the drug trade similar to your local mafia of that operates this is the tony soprano model comes 10. they force farmers and local residents, local shopkeepers to contribute to the insurgency they call it protection money. in many cases as opposed to receiving actual cash because in rural areas there is not a lot of money floating around percolate actually receive physical items. they get motorcycles, mobile phones because the insurgents change phones all the time to avoid detection. they will demand the locals provide them with phone units and the chips to go inside them and afghanistan is a country where the phone system is pay as you go so they will demand a card that provides credit on the phone. food and even medical care. one of the interesting things i found a hospital in pakistan that is owned by a drug smuggler and the taliban soldiers can go there and seek medical care they even pay for taliban soldiers to go to r&r the taliban also protects drug shipments

afghanistan has become the u.s. military's main effort and central front. president obama author on some 21,000 additional u.s. troops including more than 10,000 marines in the southern part of the country reinforcing our british, canadian, australian, dutch and danish allies. as you know, president obama ordered a comprehensive civil military strategy focused on protecting the afghan people and appointed a new leadership team. our goal is in afghanistan that doesn't provide a sing query for al qaeda that rejects the rule of the taliban and has a government that works for the needs and security of the afghan people who elected it. u.s. government is also sending more than 400 civilians to the country, most of whom will be deployed outside the capitol to the reconstruction teams and various other units laboring to bring improvements to the lives of afghans at the provincial and district levels. i believe with the new strategy we and our international afghan partners will have both military and civilian capacity to be able to make headway. of course the situation in afghanistan cannot be addressed in isolation from its neighbors. to a considerable degree the taliban re

afghanistan. and when i found is that since 2001 they have actually increased their activities, vis-À-vis the drugs trade. they collect tax and the southernareas off of the farm output, almost usually about 10% of the drugs trade. it's different from district to district, so it's a confusing situation. similar to your local mafia that operates, this is the tony soprano model comes back in. they forced farmers, local residents, local shopkeepers to contribute to the insurgency. they call this protection money or gifts. in many cases as opposed to receiving actual cash, because in rural areas there's not a lot of money floating around. they actually receive physical items. they will get motorcycles, vehicles, mobile phones. because the insurgents and change votes all the time to try to avoid detection like the type that killed us money. they will demand that the locals find a phone unit and the chips that go inside them. and afghanistan is a country where the phone system is pay-as-you-go so they will demand a card that provide credit on those phones. food, even medical care. one of the interesting thing i found was a hospital in pakistan w

afghanistan, but we won't use them at home. why not? there is no answer from the administration. we should rotate deployments of our military to the southern border. our brave men and women are routinely deployed for desert training. why not concentrate these deployments on the border rm this frees up domestic law enforcement to do the job they should be doing, root ought corruption on our side of the border. madam speaker, i have flown with the national guard along the texas-mexico border. they do a tremendous job working with the border patrol and the d.e.a., but a handful of helicopters is not enough to secure the border. the air national guard needs more equipment, more money and more troops to capture the outlaw cartel gangs. the u.s. gave mexico $1.5 billion to fight the cartels. that money should have been given to our border protector, not the culture of corruption on the mexican side of the border. a lot of attention has been rightly focused on our southern border over the last few years. we have increased the boods on the ground, installed cameras, erected barriers and sensor the efforts have not sealed the border, however theasm

southern border. there's so many good thing this is measure does. smart power is often overlooked but it's a vital tool in this foreign policy toolbox. we've seen the benefits in afghanistan and iraq and need to continue to do that work. i thank the chairman and -- and his staff for the importance of the authorization. i urge all members to vote for this bill. ms. ros-lehtinen: i continue to reserve. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. berman: i'm pleased to yield a minute to a member of the foreign affairs committee, she was, then she wasn't, now she is, my friend from nevada, ms. berkley, one minute. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. berkley: i thank the gentleman from california for yielding and for his work not only on this bill but our committee. this bill contains a number of important elements all my colleagues should support. it increases the diplomatic corps cramatically, allowing the hiring of an additional 1,500 foreign service officers over the next two years. it increases our financing of peacekeeping missions in darfur and chad. it doubles the size of the peace corps and sets out a plan for a better response to humanitari