taliban are searching the cars. and we inch up and they taliban take a quick look at our car, look at each other, part and wave is stupid and i thought, all right, i don't know the ikbal is who is waiting for us but he has a little bit of pull. so ikbal gets in the car and you can see that we are sweating and nervous and he can probably see my heart is pumping out of my neck. and he says, he starts bust out laughing. he says don't worry, don't worry. you are a guest of the taliban this weekend and we will take care of you. i don't know what you're supposed to take that, if that's supposed to coverage or not. [laughter] >> ikbal gets in the car with us and we drive to his house for dinner that evening. as we're breaking the fast, ikbal senses -- i'm having a pretty good time. no doubt about it. this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and i think that ikbal begins confusing empathy for sympathy. and so ikbal takes out his cell phone and he wants to start showing me some of the videos he has download at he and his co

taliban are searching the cars. and we inch up and they take a quick look at our each other, part and wave us through. look, i don't know who this man who's waiting for us around the next bend but obviously he's got a little bit of pull. so he gets in the car and he can see how enforce. he said don't worry. you are guests of the taliban this weekend and we will take care of you. so again, i don't know whether you're supposed to take that -- is that supposed to comfort you or not. [laughter] >> he gets in the car to us and we drive to his house for the evening and as we're breaking the fast, he senses -- i'm having a pretty good time. no doubt about it. this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and i think that he begins confusing empathy for sympathy. and so he takes out his cell phone and he wants to show me his videos that he's downloaded of he and his colleagues, supporter, fellow talabanis blowing up american convoys in american afghanistan and iraq. mostly in afghanistan. the others were, you know, sent in from

leaders and the rooting of taliban forces. a withdrawal now undermines what our troops have done. and undermines the winning strategy we are pursuing in afghanistan, a strategy we all know the united states can achieve. it is for that reason i encourage my colleagues to send a message to our troops. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. does the gentlewoman from florida wish to be recognized? ms. ros-lehtinen: yes. madam speaker, at this time i'd like to yield two minutes, our remaining time, to the gentleman from california, mr. lungren, the ranking member on the committee on house administration and a member of the homeland security and judiciary committee. i can think of no better person to close our debate on our side. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. lungren: i thank the gentlelady. madam speaker, i join the cha

the taliban was born in kandahar. and as evidence on the evening news, there is an effort to reclaim that historic city. but as i talked to the governor of the river province, he said that the only thing that the taliban has anymore with population is threats. they don't have popular appeal, or so he told me. the very idea that u.s. forces or forces in the nato coalition would withdraw would leave a vacuum in which the taliban would flow. and it has been discussed here eloquently by congressman duncan hunter who wore the uniform in harm's way. that vacuum would not just be filled by the taliban about by their evil al qaeda. so i think this resolution is wrong on the law. i think it's wrong on the facts. but lastly, let me just say, i believe it's not supportive of our troops. i mean, it's impossible for me in the many trips i have made to visit soldiers in iraq and afghanistan, impossible for me to meet with those soldiers without being profoundly inspired. i will acknowledge the gentleman from ohio has spoken in glow

we must defeat al qaeda and the taliban. this means taking all necessary steps to ensure al qaeda does not have a sant wear in -- sanctuary in afghanistan or pakistan. at the end of last year i hoped that the war debate in this country ended and we would give a chance for this strategy to work, we would give a chance for those soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors who have been sent there to carry out their mission, to be successful. i had hoped as a nation we could move toward a place of action. we wouldn't be in a position of second guessing before we've even had a chance to complete that mission. during the debate last year, no one said that it was going to be easy. the current operation in afghanistan has been successful, but has not come without challenges. however, as we stand here

but -- the more taliban we get. but i want to quote a line, what the purpose of giving the president the power, which was an illegal transfer of power to the president to pursue war at will. it says, the authorities to authorize the use of united states armed forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the united states, the taliban didn't launch an attack against the united states, the government of afghanistan didn't launch it. the best evidence is that of those 20 individuals, two of them might have passed through afghanistan. a lot of the planning was done in germany and spain and the training was done here in the united states. oh, yes. the image is that they all conspired, a small group of people, with bin laden, they made this decision. right now the evidence is not there to prove that. but certainly bin laden was very sympathetic, loved it and wanted to take credit for it. and one of the reasons why he wanted to take credit was that he said it would do three things for what he wa

but -- the more taliban we get. but i want to quote a line, what the purpose of giving the president the power, which was an illegal transfer of power to the president to pursue war at will. it says, the authorities to authorize the use of united states armed forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the united states, the taliban didn't launch an attack against the united states, the government of afghanistan didn't launch it. the best evidence is that of those 20 individuals, two of them might have passed through afghanistan. a lot of the planning was done in germany and spain and the training was done here in the united states. oh, yes. the image is that they all conspired, a small group of people, with bin laden, they made this decision. right now the evidence is not there to prove that. but certainly bin laden was very sympathetic, loved it and wanted to take credit for it. and one of the reasons why he wanted to take credit was that he said it would do three things for what he wa

we want to work for the taliban, stop working with the taliban.rd for $10 a day folks and so on and so forth. it's going to take a long time and the question is, what their patients? and you're right, i don't have an answer. >> yes, sir. >> hi, i've been writing down and i could ask you about 16 questions, but i know i'm not allowed to. >> keep it at 15. [laughter] >> i will mention subjects quickly. the first one is about the language when the special forces first went there, how did they deal with the language problems. the second is about bora bora. we had a correspondent who was here was in the middle of the cattle and it was a few years ago and he gave a talk year on sixth avenue, a first-hand account of what happened there. third, charlie wilson on one degree of separation from him so i know someone who helped him. his bat. involved in afghanistan for long time ago before the 9/11 or anything else. the question i'm going to ask is about women. >> about what? >> about women. i feel very strongly for women's rights. another was in egypt in the

we must not give taliban leaders and fighters a shield against u.s. forces that they would otherwise -- that they otherwise cannot stop. no enemy was ever vanquished, no victory was ever secured by running away. those who wish to destroy us would surely follow us, convinced that we had been beaten and eager to attack us wherever we go as they would be confident that we can in fact be beaten again. mr. speaker, let us dispel any myths or illusions about the consequences of a forced withdrawal. as general petraeus has warned, and i quote, i was in kandahar, it was in kandahar that the 9/11 attacks were planned. it was in the training camps in eastern afghanistan where the initial preparation of the attackers was carried out before they went to hamburg and flight schools in the u.s. it is important to recall the seriousness of the mission and why it is that we are in afghanistan in the first place and why we are still there after years and years of hard work and sacrifice that have passed, end quote. one of the principled reasons we have been spared the

we must defeat this resolution and the taliban and the al qaeda and support our military. last saturday, march 6, was the anniversary, the 174th anniversary of a battle at the alamo where those people walked across that line rather than give in to the enemy and they -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. poe: i thank the lady. they were led by a 27-year-old individual from south carolina by way of alabama. he said at the alamo, i shall never surrender or retreat. and they did not surrender or retreat because war was hard then. and it cost them all their lives. but victory was attained later. and freedom was obtained. war is hard. it is always hard. and we shall not give in. we shall not you surrender or retreat. it is in our interest and the interest of america to defeat the enemy and let them have no doubt in their mind we will be victorious. that's just the way it is. i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. kucinich: i yield four minutes to mr. filner from california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized fo

we seem unable to eradicate the taliban enemy. they scatter before our troops into lawless regions and then once our troops leave, without an effective government in afghanistan, it's hard to see this pattern changing as the local population cannot count on the taliban ever being gone for good. this is a costly war without an end in sight. it's a costly war to our brave soldiers and to their families. it is a -- it is costly because resources desperately needed to feed the hungry to find a way forward on health reform and to fix our failing schools are being redirected to an effort whose success is questionable. here at home, we have had precious little debate over this war. we have seen our troops' numbers rise to above those in iraq and yet we have no real benchmarks or goals after which we will leave. we continue to spend massive amounts of money to maintain the occupation of both countries and worst of all we ask our brave men and women in uniform to continue to sacrifice their lives and bodies to this war without our nation s

the taliban would rule by the edict of terror. it would mean the return of a nightmarish tyranny to afghanistan. women would see the rights they have gained disappear as the taliban once again made women noncitizens. and banned young girls who for the first time are learning to read from schools. recall mr. speaker -- mr. speaker, i believe that now is not the time to turn our backs on the afghan people. it is not the time to counter the mission of our troops. especially when they are engaged in the first major offensive of president obama's reaffirmed counterinsurgency strategy. let us send a message to the terrorists that the united states is committed to our mission to prevent the return to power of the taliban. let us soundly defeat this resolution. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i a

speaker, the danger that is posed by the afghan taliban as the pakistani taliban with both work from pakistan is something that becomes more obvious every day and when he refers to the murders of people in pakistan by the pakistan taliban he is referring to violent incidents that are happening every day as a result of the efforts of the taliban. we are working with the pakistani authorities so we can make inroads into the taliban that has had some success with the leadership of the afghan taliban in only the last few weeks but at the same time we will work with the pakistan security authorities and we will continue to say to the pakistani people we will help children with education. we ask you to work with us so madrasahs cannot have an evil influence on the young people of pakistan. >> the prime minister will know that government expenditure on advertising and marketing and self-promotion went up by more than 40% last year. will he cut it out? >> we already announced government advertising budget and consultant budget. he should know that. >> mr. david clement. >> february was desig

taliban? >> pakistan is seriously fighting the taliban today. >> rose: in pakistan. >> in pakistan.ur fight in pakistan has had a very positive and backed across the border in afghanistan. >> rose: because the two have connections? pakistan and-- afghan, taliban, and pakistanital bin. >> our operations have curtailed the border crossings. today taliban, al qaeda, and their associates are on the run. pakistan was once considered to be a safe haven. no longer. people are running away from pakistan. because they have seen the seriousness, the resolve of the people and the armed forces. where is mullah omar now? >> i wish he was in my pocket, but he isn't there. >> rose: if you knew where he was, you would call for a drone missile attack? >> we'll get him. if we knew where he was. we would go for him. >> rose: most people believe he's in pakistan. >> people speculate about it. it's all a guessing game. >> rose: the central point you've made is you've begun to close the borders so people are running out of pakistan knowing it's not a safe haven, correct, because you're coming after them?

and most significant taliban capture since the beginning of the war. and mullah abdul can bureau, a senior -- kabur, a senior taliban leader. both were captured in pakistan which illustrates increased cooperation from the pakistan government thanks in large part to the administration's careful diplomacy. as "the washington post" put it on february 23, and i quote, pakistani security forces have long supported or turned a blind eye to afghan taliban members seeking sanctuary in pakistan. the recent arrests seem to mark a change in that attitude. clearly success in afghanistan will be positive -- deposited on the success of those in pakistan to act against sanctuaries. at the same time the leadership of al qaeda and taliban has been severely damaged through strikes in pakistan. and the new counterinsurgency strategy has been put to work in an important district in hallucinate monday province where american coalition -- hell monday province where american -- helmon province where americans have worked with the pakistanis. the gentleman has made some comme

so the second part of the taliban.ight between elites who want political power who have a different world view and that's why basically if we cannot make a deal, a political deal in afghanistan, we are not going to solve the question. i mean, that should explain that later. but basically yes, the two things are right. but not to explain the same question. >> i'll give you one answer of the question and you should look at the insurgents and what they're doing, you know, because what they're doing is driven by necessity. and, you know, even look at the taliban before 2001, you know, when they swept in through southern afghanistan and up towards the north, you know, they swept in militarily -- first of all, they had bought off the pakistani transport mafia which sponsored the taliban's thrust into afghanistan so they had the economic backers that wanted to open up the road to central asia and then they thrust in militarily and as they moved along and created this momentum of these military operations then the cards just f

>> we should talk with the taliban. >> taliban does not want to fight with nato. >> reporter: so the police bosses in helmand like this commander and this colonel have some job to do. banditry, the biggest opium industry on the planet and an insurgency backed by iran to the west, pakistan to the east. who would be a cop in helmand? no wonder the british have brought in am-cop, teams of super cops from kabul with a bit more real train to go get things going. >> originally we had bad policemen and therefore we needed this group to come in force, come over. the local population hated them. in some areas they still do. but with this group they came down. they completely got the population on the side and won it over. >> reporter: in the u.k., the police top brass might worry about the i.t.-system in a new building. here at a new police post they're worried the taliban will murder them by night. >> this is why we have these vehicles here. they have the night sights so they can be put on the road if there's a threat. they can be put on the road to protect. in the century position theirs wi

, from the afghan taliban and of course, and others detained in pack tiny as there were some also in afghanistan. feeling a bit more pressure worried about what might be in the future, has resulted in some of this dispersal. thank you. >> thank you, senator reed, senator chamblis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen, as we continue down this read, trying to make sure we recruit and retain the finest men and women america has to offer, as two of you guys that are -- our junior officers and mid-level career folks look to you to provide the right kind of leadership to allow to us retain those folk and thank you for the great work you do. general petraeus i want to go back to what senator lieberman talked about, relative to meeting the goal of 50,000 troops, in iraq, by the end of august, general odierno odierno has expressed concern about the fact we'll need some, roughly, buffer-zone type troops, make a bct in the northern end because of the iraqi national forces and the kurdish regional forces, issue up there. is that going to be a part of the plan, that you are talking about from a

. -- paxistan from taliban?nger from the afghan talibban and the pakistan taliban is something that becomes more and more obvious every day. he is referring to violent incidents that are happening every day as a result of the efforts of the taliban. we are work with the pakistani authorities so that we can make inroads into the taliban. there has been some success with the afghan taliban in only the last few weeks. at the same time we will continue to work with the pakistani authorities and say toçó>4)qÑi pakistani people, we will help children with their education, we ask you to with us so that the madrasahs cannot have an evil influence on the advertising and self-promotion went up by 40% last year. in that it isn't working with -- will he cut 0 -- it out? >> we are going to end the advertising budget and consultancy budget. he should know that. >> is the prime minister aware that february was designated as scones awareness month? does the attempt by the party opposite to pose as a party fit for government not

and the enemy is said to be the taliban. well, the taliban, they certainly don't like us.nd we don't like them. and the more we kill, the more the taliban we get. but i want to quote the first line of the resolution passed back in 2001, what the purpose of giving the president the power which was an illegal transfer of power to the president to pursue war at will. it said, "the authority to authorize the use of united states armed forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the united states." the taliban didn't launch an attack against the united states. the government of afghanistan didn't launch it. the best evidence is that of those 20 individuals, two of them might have passed through afghanistan. a lot of the planning was done in germany and spain and the training was done here in the united states. oh, yes. the image is that they all conspired, a small group of people, with bin laden bin laden and made this decision. right now the evidence is not there to prove. that but certainly bin laden was very sympathetic, loved it, and wanted to t

the good news is that pakistan is making greater effort to crack down on taliban and al qaeda terror groups on its soil and those efforts are yielding results which should help stabilize afghanistan. like mr. kucinich, i want the u.s. -- may i have an additional 30 seconds? mr. berman: the gentleman is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. ms. harman: i want the u.s. military out of afghanistan at the earliest reasonable date. but accelerating the obama administration's carefully calibrated timetable could take risks with our national security. i share mr. kucinich's sentiment, but not his schedule. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from ohio. mr. kucinich: thank you. i want to thank mr. berman for agreeing to make this debate possible. i do appreciate it very much. and you have been open to that and i'm -- i think the country should appreciate that about you. i also want to say that this study, congressional research stu

you have another 30% of the taliban that are basically a paycheck taliban, melissa. they do. -- militia. they do a lot of fighting because they get paid or because they have been antagonized by our own government. they have complained about a government or police of the chief staff. the government does not deliver the services in the area the way they should. or they have been antagonized by military operations. we lost these people. the engagement we need to do is both political and financial. this is a hard thing to do with limited resources. sometimes seasonal unemployment in the winter is close to 80% of the countryside. there is nothing to do. we have to give them jobs. if you give them a job and restore their home and village and vineyards and orchards and fields, they have no reason to fight. that is the parts that is the reintegration. there is a lot of focus politically on the 10%. the others focus on the nine -- the '90s are. that is why it reconciliation is -- the '90s are. that is why the reconciliation is twofold. they came together somehow. >> thank you

it's a matter of fear for the taliban. that's the message we really ought to be getting out, is that the taliban are afraid of their neighbors ratting them out to u.s. and coalition forces. megyn? megyn: how do we combat that, colonel? >> well, you expand the control by the kabul government and the provincial governments over these areas where there are cell towers. about 40 percent of the country today has some kind of cell service, and we've actually been out in the field and seen folks, you know, rigging up little tiny antennaes on top of mud huts to try to get cell service. what has to happen is the government in kabul and provincial bottoms, all over in this country need to exercise control over the licenses that they have let, and make sure that those operating those towers know if they go dark, they lose their license. megyn: colonel oliver north, appreciate it, live in hel land province. >>> no shortage of cameras when president obama signed that health care bill but a whole different story today when the president

this friend inside our military system, deep inside has seen the taliban arguing among themselves, talibanighting mujahideen and all of them making fun of al qaeda because al qaeda is not doing anything, they are not in the fight. they are not delivering money anymore. so any time we get our enemies fighting among themselves. that is great news. so pakistan is going pretty well. the problem is actually in afghanistan. not with al qaeda. but with policies that are neither here nor there. a corrupt government. that's absolutely disgraceful and -- >> bill: the government is a disgrace. that's absolutely true. i think he should have slapped karzai in the photo on with them. give them one of these. like south vietnam. have the corrupt government in there and americans trying their hardest to do the right thing. let's go over to putin in moscow. another embarrassment for the russians. these people come in. they kill russians. so they have a lot of problems with fanatical muslims in the south part of russia and the satellite states surrounding them. will this make putin and the russian government

the iranians who were shia have been a longtime enemy of the taliban which is primarily sunni.n the short term iran sees helping the tap ban as countering the overall pressure in iran. >> as the united states squeezes iran, iran is looking for places to squeeze america back and where better than obama's war next door in afghanistan. and riedel says taliban leaders while having no love for iran need to take whatever help they can get right now because pakistan is arresting more taliban militants inside its borders while the u.s. drone campaign continues to slam iran and its allies. brian todd, washington. >>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu doing the rounds in washington. he heads to a white house meeting later today with president obama. the u.s. wants israel to back down from a construction plan in disputed east jerusalem. mr. netanyahu is showing no signs of doing so. >>> happening right now a senate panel is holding a hearing on the president's pick to head the transportation security administration. robert harding is a retired major general with 33 years in the ar

were going to reverse the taliban's momentum.e going to strengthen the capacity of afghan security forces and the afghan government so they can begin taking responsibility and gain the confidence of the afghan people. our strategy includes a military effort that takes the fight to the taliban while creating conditions for greater security and a transition to the afghans, but also a civilian effort that improves the daily lives of the afghan people. and combats corruption. a partnership with pakistan and its people, because we cannot uproot extremists and advance security and opportunity unless we succeed on both sides of the border. most of you understand that. many of the tubes that i ordered to a afghanistan have begun to arrive. more are on the way. we will continue to work with congress to make sure you have the equipment that you need. -- more troops are on the way. we are providing more helicopters and reconnaissance capabilities, more special operations forces, more armored vehicles that can save lives. in afghanistan you

host: what do most people in afghanistan think of the taliban?st: if you look at the polls, the people do not want them coming back in the power. which is one of the things we have going for us. the problem is that when you look at the thing that people want most, it is security. the thing that security forces have not been able to provide. this position where the taliban is present to support them for survival reasons. taliban is filling in for the government in some ways, dispensing justice. the afghan government has not been able to provide -- those of the two main things. host: horton, north carolina. independent line. good morning. caller: i do not understand why we are still there. we are supposed to be training them people. what happens is we send our people over for six months of basic training, they go over there and they fight. why does it take so long to train men to do that? host: you touched on that before. guest: on the american side? host: the training of the forces. guest: in many cases you are starting from the ground up. you can

is it a flat eastern afghanistan when the taliban tried to recruit them. one says he refused a direct approach from two members of the taliban lawford and clothes and money to train him to make bombs. -- who offered him clothes and money to train him and make bombs trip >> i came with a repeated offer to my father and he said know. my father shouted to me to run away and i saw they had shot him. i ran away and knew i could not stay there anymore. >> it was a terrible journey. when you are walking through the mountains, it was freezing. we could see dead bodies along the way. we had to leave two of our group behind to die. the smugglers gave us no choice. >> hello. how're you today? >> the boy's social worker says the children she sees arrived traumatized, hungry, and often with skin disease like scabies. whatever the reasons i left home, they will be looked after, housed, and school until they're 18. but then what? officials say most are not accepted as asylum seekers. >> my strong advice to the young afghan mail trying to seek a life in the west is to not

the taliban would just sit back. there will wait us out, wait for withdrawal, and then we will have more of the same. to the young journalist the cold in calling obama batman or whatever -- that is just absurd. the offense is not just to republicans or independentss, but to democrats and to all americans because you are belittling the president of the u.s. down to some comic super hero. why is the u.s. military being kept in stonewalls and places like kabul? they're not doing much in the countryside. they are being held in the stronger areas where they can keep themselves protected. host: corbin, kentucky, on the democrats online. caller: i was watching news reports before the war began with the taliban executing helpless women for practically no reasons at all in the soccer stadium. since our troops have gone over there that nonsense has been stopped. i fully supported george bush and a matter of afghanistan, and also support obama in the matter of afghanistan. as an ex-marine, service- connected, disable, i think w

it is those two reasons whether taliban were able to seize control here in helmand province, because the people here felt that there was no other recourse. they didn't have a government that they felt they could trust. everything was done through cronies, through payoffs, through kickbacks, things like that. they felt they had nowhere else to turn, although the taliban justice was brutal, it was, in some form, justice. now the u.s. marines that we've been working with here and seen them work, they are really engaging the local, down at the district level, the district governor, working on projects to de-mine this area. where we're standing right now is probably one of the most heavily mined areas in the entire world. 20,000 people had to flee this area when the taliban took over here and the fighting was going on. now the marines are down here, trying to get that area de-mined, working with the afghans, trying to build up that local government from the grassroots level, so people have a more stable place to come back to. >> hey, i got to ask you another question here. and real quickl

that's where a huge amount of money that finances the taliban comes from.money well spent if you get people off the hook and stop growing poppies. that's part of the exercise. another equally important part is to convince people if they need protection or services, they can turn to the government in kabul and get those services as officially as if they turn to a taliban commander. that's not always been the case and the u.s. can only do it temporarily. it's an afghan government problem that needs to happen. >> shepard: we just got an urgent from the associated press saying the united states warned the afghan president's half brother he could be targeted if found to be provided arms to insurgents. that's the brother there on the screen. the quote here, i'd like him out of there, u.s. fails say, this man, ahmed karzai, we'd rather not have a guy like that there because he's divisive but there's nothing we can do until we link him to the insurgencecy and put him on the target list and capture or kill him. sounds like they're sure he's a bad guy. >> there's con

they could be with the taliban. are we making progress? we cannot win this thing without pakistan, correct? >> i think that is right. you were talking about let's look at the movie rather than a snapshot. if we go back 18 months or two years and think about what was going on in that part of the world, there was a major offensive generated by islamic extremists, pakistani taliban. inside pakistan, there were of enormous amounts of the tax, the pakistani military was attacked, and that seems to have gotten their attention. in the last 18 months, the direction in general has been positive. the civilian government, one piece of the three you mentioned, was elected on the premise that -- benazir bhutto's husband ran on the idea that they needed to lead the fight against terrorism. that gave a political power to the pakistani military that had not existed. the military itself had been under attack and they responded. as far as the intelligence and -- intelligence service is concerned, i don't think it is one of you in that intelligence service b

one of them has direct connections to the taliban.g down the taliban narco insurgency is a primary mission for the dea. the two detainees were captured with the help of the assist yan regional director for the dea in this part of the world. you are out there with the niu, the afghan counterparts and u.s. marines. what is going happen to the two detainees? >> once the detainees are back in kabul, they will be transported to the counter narcotics justice center. an afghan led facility and they will stand trial there before afghan judges with afghan attorneys. >> one had evidence linking him directly back to the taliban? >> yes, one individual had a taliban video in his cell phone. >> i'm oliver north for fox news. >> geraldo: thank you, sir. coming up, what do i'm at the doctor getting my shoulder looked at. as we're finishing up, i mention i'm going to the bathroom more often. he checks it out. good thing. turns out... my urinary symptoms -- such as going frequently, trouble going, flow starts and stops... and going often at night -- a

at the same time, pakistan has stepped up the pressure on afghan taliban leaders-- capturing several senior figures in recent weeks. >> ifill: now, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: vice president biden sought to reassure palestinians today about the u.s. commitment to their future. he met with palestinian leaders in the west bank, after holding similar meetings with israelis yesterday in jerusalem. and, he said palestinian statehood is a priority for the u.s. >> our administration is fully committed to the palestinian people and to achieving a palestinian state that is independent, viable, and contiguous. everyone should know, everyone should know by now, that there is no viable alternative to a two-state solution. >> sreenivasan: the vice president also warned again about actions that he said "inflame tensions." yesterday, he condemned an israeli announcement enlarging an east jerusalem settlement on disputed land. today, palestinian president mahmoud abbas said the israeli move is an obstacle to peace. >> ( translated ): the d

of creating instability there, while gates said tehran is appealing to both kabul and the taliban. >> lehrer: then, the terrorist charges against the american woman who calls herself jihad jane. >> ifill: the administration escalates its criticism of the health insurance industry. >> over the last year, we've seen tens of millions of dollars by the insurance industry spent on ads and lobbyists to help kill health reform. >> lehrer: we'll have a debate between the insurance industry and one of its leading critics. >> ifill: ray suarez looks at the challenges facing haiti's government, as its president visits washington. >> lehrer: jeffrey brown reports on climate science under fire. >> ifill: and kwame holman reports on the hundreds of world war two pots-- all of them women-- honored at the capitol today. >> we were never in there for the glory. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: y >> every business day, bank of america lends nearly $3 billion to individuals, institutions, schools, organizations and businesses i

he said i am a taliban leader. we are all taliban.the amazing thing was he put it at the afghan leaders and said i am going to give you a chance. you have a limited amount of time to prove to me that you are not the old government. one of the great talking points right now of the new afghan government that is coming into marjah as we are not the guys from three or four years ago. we are different. you need to give us a shot. you need to give us a chance to earn your trust. that is a positive. we have to get in here and start demonstrating and earning that trust. >> note that the ospreys words used in the operation but there were some question as to whether there were doing runs there and if the got into the fight. can you give us a rundown on how you used the osprey? >> i would be glad to. if there is any perception or notion that we are babying or coddling the osprey, you have to come out here. we went behind enemy lines at 3:00 a.m. because they're the right platform for that mission. i have been flying around in them for the past t

we're going to reverse the taliban's momentum.nment said that they can begin taking responsibility and gain confidence of the afghan people. and our strategy includes a military effort that takes the fight to the taliban while creating the conditions for greater security and a transition to the afghans -- but also a civilian effort that improves the daily lives of the afghan people, and combats corruption, and a partnership with pakistan and its people because we cannot uproot extremists and advance security and opportunity unless we succeed on both sides of the border. most of you understand that. many of the troops that i ordered to afghanistan have begun to arrive, and more are on the way. and we will continue to work with congress to make sure that you've got the equipment that you need, particularly as we complete our drawdown in iraq. we're providing more helicopters, we are providing more intelligence and reconnaissance capabilities, more special operations forces, more armored vehicles that can save lives. and here in afgh

-- fighting al qaeda and the taliban. >> two red arrow plans were on an exercise when they collided. >> they are pilots from the world's most famous of aerobatic team, so what happened next was completely unexpected. the moment of collision was caught of a mobile phone camera, the person filling it clearly in shock. the two pilots were on a training exercise at the atlantic air force base in crete when the crash happened. >> one went swimming aboard, and the other when downward and smashed into the ground. i saw a flash and pieces of the plane flying in the air like a grenade. >> it was a very lucky escape. one of the pilots dislocated his shoulder after rejecting from his plane, which was completely destroyed. the second pilot landed safely, unharmed. the day before, the team had given a breathtaking display at the very same airfield. they had arrived on the island on sunday for the first stage of training. with that level of skill, it is hard to imagine how such an accident could happen. britain's ministry of defense says an investigation will shortly be under way and that the pre-

the pakistani security forces have declared victory against taliban and al qaeda linked militants in bajaur tribal agency, which is on the border of afghanistan. and was used to stage attacks on nato. >> i know. i've been to bajaur. >> what is your reaction to the overall struggle against it? >> i'm delighted they feel they're making progress. when i first met to bajaur, it was a very bad scene. we flew over, we couldn't land. we had to divert and land in the agency. the fact they feel they succeeded is a very positive development. [inaudible] >> to talk about the kind of killings and captures that some of these major taliban leaders, do you have any sense yet about what can a psychological effect it might be having on either the taliban leadership or some of the mid-level commanders? do you think -- do you sense any that they're making any thoughts about considering alternatives like reconciliation and do you think any kind of pakistani influence from the isi would have any exact either way on ornate. >> it's a very good question. we ask at all the times of ourselves. we don't -- i

civilians are forced to move in front of taliban fighters, attacking nato troops in the line of fireecently on a jihadists website of an old woman who was used to fire at nato troops to distract them from taliban attack. all of this is, of course, in flagrant breach of any, anything we would recognize as international law. [applause] >> but, ladies and gentlemen, it would be an enormous error to believe that jihadists groups ignore the international laws of armed conflicts. they certainly do not. they study them with care and understand them very well. they know that a british, american or israeli commander and his men are bound by its national law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. they didn't do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of the enemy's main weakness is. they're very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that western armies will abide by the rules. so how do civilized armies get around these tactics and prevail against the insurgents? in particular, avoiding killing innocent civilians when that is exactly what the enemy is trying to lower

, with another photograph here -- taliban," with another photo here as he arrives. west palm beach, florida. chauck. caller: good morning. there is an issue affecting every american, it is called greed. it has moved on to the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the fda. fda is one of the most inadequate agencies of american government. basically killing people because of their decisions, they are owned by the pharmaceutical companies. there is research out there that proves that that drugs are ineffective and can cause harm they had hearings -- cause harm a furious they had hearing the other day. it is just a big joke. the simplistic reasoning of the fda and the american public that perpetuates the greed is the reason our economy is in such a bad shape. host: we are going to wrap up the program now. thank you to everyone who called in today. we hope to hear from more of you tomorrow. "washington journal" starts at 7:00 every morning, eastern time. we will go to the house in a moment. enjoy