with the pakistani taliban. so, and certainly with the haqqani family. but again, we don't know. i think the problem here with this divorcing the two is that if they were to come in with a pledged -- a pledge that they would distance themselves from al qaeda because al qaeda under those conditions is not going to go away necessarily, first question you ask is why should we believe them. maybe this is a tactical device to get their kind of settlement. but let's assume now that they are sincere, and let me introduce an element which we haven't discussed. and that is, what probably would be the showstopper for various kinds of reconciliation, and that is the northern, northern. they made it very clear here that they are very suspicious of any kind of negotiation. and that indeed they are prepared to fight if necessary. certainly the hazara group which has the kind of blood feud with the taliban would be most likely to do so. my point here is that we haven't spoken about the possibility, the very real possibility be

what is their role in any fighting, any conflict with the taliban? and also what is the -- has there been any good effort or good success in creating the afghan security forces with a larger pastun element to them. >> okay. and then in the front row, please. >> my name is dan caldwell. i'm a professor of political political scientists. what were the biggest surprises were as a result of your service on this foundation commission >> and all the way in the back. >> one question i have -- >> i'm sorry, your name please. >> bill good dloofellow. what does the karzai government to negotiate a deal that would have the americans leaving? they're getting extremely rich. dexter's piece on the kabul bank heist. it's staggering the amount of money these guys are stealing and it creates an enormous incentive it seems to me to keep going and about the last thing they want is the americans to wind down the war because this -- the gravy train stops. how do we change that dynamic. >> thank you, bill. why don't we start with larry and joe spriteluber on the northern

in taliban he calls the taliban its brothers. so when a leader of the country loses sense of direction in a complicated situation is what you get. >> charlie: listen to this. this is from reporting on the administration's response to the kabul bank scandal. after months of smarting with karzai the u.s. administration appears to be paralyzed. we have to work with these people a senior nato officer told me. we have no choice but to work with a man you say is corrupt and has no capacity to win the support of the afghan people. >> of course this situation is also man made situation, noting the wide-spread fraud in the 2009 elections. and also failing to prevent massive fraud before the elections were taking place, is reason forgetting stuck with two days situation. >> charlie: what should the united states do about president karzai? >> stand firm when it comes to the issues of governance, good governance, supporting democratic progression. bring coherence in the policies of the international community rather than flip flopping on the

as the taliban are all united. it shows dissension in the ranks of the taliban. that is a good thing. it provides information about the movement. as jim said, allows -- takes away the moral high ground from the taliban. there are not involved in a phony war but a political process and become a sort of responsible. my final point is some interesting work about the conditions for insurgents or terrorists to come to a peace deal. i will give you four and think about how they work in afghanistan going forward. one is a mutual recognition of a military stalemate. if we had this conversation you're going would have said it is not looking good but it is better. taliban has military defeat in canada are. we are fed up with this war. there is mutual rejection of the stalemate. strong leadership on both sides of the equation. omar is in control of the insurgency in afghanistan. that is a negative. third-party sponsors are important. the saudis were involved but for and al qaeda's principal goal is the monarchy. the taliban don't reject al qaeda and its works and the saudis

this was the notion that the taliban -- how did the taliban take power in the 1990s? first, pakistan give them all the equipment. second, went they had the equipment they have to move. how do you move in a country twice the size of wyoming. he did on one or two kinds of vehicles. pickup trucks or motorcycles. most of the taliban today are equivalent to the 1860s tosh tunes or comanches. but albright and a duck and hide very well, but the albright on motorcycle. and that's their horse. well, there is no such thing as writing anywhere anymore nastiness and the were not watching. it were not watching you can select who is struck. therefore i am not that concerned about the taliban because i don't see how they do it. so when i see is the endpoint here is were not going to win over the population to get it and we're not going to build a modern nation and asking if and. i mean, karsay is -- karzai -- what were do i use. it's difficult to run a country when you're in. 's on understanding. but he did for another four years. the issue in afghanistan is very simple. leave somet

with the pakistani taliban. so, and certainly with the haqqani family. but again, we don't know. i think the problem here with this divorcing the two is that if they were to come in with a pledged -- a pledge that they would distance themselves from al qaeda because al qaeda under those conditions is not going to go away necessarily, first question you ask is why should we believe them. maybe this is a tactical device to get their kind of settlement. but let's assume now that they are sincere, and let me introduce an element which we haven't discussed. and that is, what probably would be the showstopper for various kinds of reconciliation, and that is the northern, northern. they made it very clear here that they are very suspicious of any kind of negotiation. and that indeed they are prepared to fight if necessary. certainly the hazara group which has the kind of blood feud with the taliban would be most likely to do so. my point here is that we haven't spoken about the possibility, the very real possibility be

tells us if any diplomatic social solution is possible for the country living in the shadow of a taliban terror spotlight is coming up. well look it's. really new the latest in science stream technology from the realms . we've done to the future covered. hello again a lot into spotlight the interview shared on heartache i'm now going out on today my guest on the show is called will. the nato led warfare in afghanistan has been going on for ten years already but seeing little success some of it some moralist allies like the former british foreign secretary david miliband are criticizing that they no longer believe in a military solution and say it's now time the diplomats should step in but is it possible to deal with taliban terrorists in a language other than against the russians should now the answer they tried everything. my guess is the presidential special envoy for afghanistan said you have a couple. nato neutral operation in afghanistan has been going on even longer now than the saw this campaign there in the eighty's but the law says in just three years it will hand over to afgha

when you came into afghanistan, the taliban -- when we came into afghanistan, the taliban was streaking women terribly. >> three basic points. i will recall what joshua said earlier with regard to the resistance of afghanistan of someone trying to impose their values with regard to the order of the place. what we westerners find objects know -- find objectionable with regard to the social order is part of a larger issue regarding the state of women. i do not want to denigrate atrocities or abuses with regard to the taliban. even if the taliban were to go away and we had someone else in charge of afghanistan, we would be witnessing a culture and a role for women that most of us would find pretty findabhorrent. -- find pretty darn abhorrent. we have to pick our goals and pick our fights. when i was still in government during the first few months of the bush administration prior to 9/11, there was policy deliberation about what we do with regard to the afghanistan /caliban problem. it was seen the way -- with regard to the afghanistan /taliban problem. how do we persuade the taliban to cou

and taliban. talk a little bit about america's prestige in terms of staying in the terms of leaving. where are we better off now? >> my own view is that we are better off if we can do it. pleasing in a way that at least establishes some stability, perhaps some openness, and indy safety and afghanistan. it is not in my view possible to achieve even this millennial objective if we are not prepared to work in the neighborhood hard and the afghan parties very hard. i think that we have an opening to do this. i think that in the broad context, those of us who remember vietnam know that every one of the same arguments with a deeply that we engaged in the long and very difficult negotiating process. i think we underestimated the vietnamese nationalism and overestimated the communist control. to some extent, we shouldn't underestimate the afghan national was some, and we should certainly never asked to underestimate the afghan xenophobia at the present time. those kinds of questions are not now harnessed

we know that taliban insurgency increasingly are the woodstock aeration and become free and they are focusing not only on the door i saw of american military installations they are frying for target everybody not only for almost bought a local as well and aid workers are soft targets for them and easy to work to reach and this why they're becoming victims of the war says and best there is then you have wall the presidential special envoy to galveston. crosswise will be back shortly after we'll take a break so stay way we'll continue this interview in less than an. earth. they come in thousands. so long to play with see others one says take her spirits. see what she's achieved by the river. is nothing in her system is silly. chasing adrenaline oxys explodes. chosen from among many. she was given a clear cut mission. a mission he successfully accomplished. and became the first every man in outer space. hero of the soviet union and one of the best known persons in the whole world. all his flaws were focused on sons. could he ever think that his life's work would cost him his last. one h

the taliban prison held in those days because i want to find out about how the taliban prisons were they tortured people there they brutalize and they treated like a subhuman and your guest want to you know recidivism rate which by the was exaggerated number but the but the point is you take people who are torture chamber torture them for years and released and you do you make a friend of them you're going to make enemies want to undermine u.s. national security and undermine the u.s. reputation around the world and it's created a quagmire for us we've tortured people there and then we can't close the place we can't repeal the trial we create a situation that's ongoing and i'm going under minding our nation and undermining our national security it's a mess it was a mess from day one when when she knew what we're seeing is the worst the worst they knew on day one they had about a third of the people there who weren't even criminals i think kevin has a good point i do have to ask is what do you think of the fact that if you torture somebody if you keep them locked up in a cell for i d

is really important and it will end with the taliban this is the other way around most of them really fight for the cause and they believe that's true well with which they have moral which makes it difficult difficult to front that lewis has always made it difficult to fight people against and thank you thank you very much eriksson's you for being with us unfortunately we're running out of time and just a reminder that my guest today in the studio. the presidential special envoy to afghanistan and that's it for now from all of us here if you don't tell yourselves potluck just drop me a line. it will be back with well first time comments on what's going on in and outside of russia and so let's stay on party and take it as it. should be. the board. live in a country that got understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets in afghanistan or baghdad. one of the spring. breaks or. as it. is from the.

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hasta mañana >>> fuga de película en una cárcel afgana causa con misión en el mundo entero, el grupo talibán un centenar de rehénes. una congresista estatal de california acusa al gobierno fedz lal federal acusa a la im mre n implementación de comunidades seguras. expertos médicos dicen que los adolescentes obesos corren menos riesgo de un comportamiento prensa apropiado para lo jóvenes. y un distrito escolar de texas, pone seguridad en los buses escolares. este es su noticiero univisión edición nocturna con ilia cal e calderón y edna schmith. >>> hola qué tal, escapan de una cárcel más de 500 reos usando un túnel secreto los hechos ocurrieron en kandahar, el pasadizo fue construido durante 5 meses y las autoridades adelantan una búsqueda minuciosa para dar con los fugitivos, martín tiene los detalles buenas noches para ti martín? >>> qué tal buenas noches, cada 30 segundos, escapaban los reos, y la seguridad solamente aseguraban celdas vacías, esto hoy es conocido como "el gran escape" >>> no es cualquier fuga carcelaria, la fuga de estos talibanes de 500 reos de la principal cárcel afgana

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when you came into afghanistan, the taliban -- when we came into afghanistan, the taliban was streaking women terribly. >> three basic points. i will recall what joshua said earlier with regard to the resistance of afghanistan of someone trying to impose their values with regard to the order of the place. what we westerners find objects know -- find objectionable with regard to the social order is part of a larger issue regarding the state of women. i do not want to denigrate atrocities or abuses with regard to the taliban. even if the taliban were to go away and we had someone else in charge of afghanistan, we would be witnessing a culture and a role for women that most of us would find pretty findabhorrent. -- find pretty darn abhorrent. we have to pick our goals and pick our fights. when i was still in government during the first few months of the bush administration prior to 9/11, there was policy deliberation about what we do with regard to the afghanistan/caliban problem. it was seen the way -- with regard to the afghanistan/taliban problem. how do we persuade the taliban to cough

fighters and one hundred of them believed to be taliban commanders and the taliban has claimed responsibility for the operation they've also said they were digging up for five months to create a tunnel out of the facility so not only to various events since the exact same president had broken into in two thousand and eight when nearly one thousand prisoners escaped after which security had reportedly been beefed up but it's also something of the afghan government today claimed was a security disaster but that's progress i have the summer fighting months and the prospects for afghan takeover of security into jeopardy so what are people on the ground saying about it or earlier i caught up with him lynch blogger and founder of free range international i'm considering it this is been big news here in the u.s. today i first asked him how quickly the word spread in lockhart got where he's located in southern afghanistan. who are it was it happened late late last night so we're divided by this morning it was all that anybody locally was talking about that's for sure now so far only about thirteen of

>> from taliban leaders, afghan taliban, you're talking about -- some afghan taliban have links or surveys with -- links or sympathies with al qaeda. but 60% of the them have no interest in global jihad. the president said explicitly that there should be an "reconciliation process in every province." >> the president of? " the president of the united states. i believe president obama understood from the beginning the importance of a political lodestar for this campaign. it is not the case that those of us who argue for a political settlement believed it would be fostered, the simple and immediate withdrawal of troops. but they are part of the drive for the political settlement. i do believe that the number of troops, the passion of that debate is in proportion to its importance. the more we are you in our country -- we used to have huge arguments about 1500 more troops. but unless you heard the political goal of a negotiated settlement with simple principles, all tribes in, taliban out, and all the neighbors in -- i made a speech on this two years ago -- two weeks ago. i have been very ske

in some areas the taliban has been weakened or at least their strength eroded. particularly in the south where i've just come back from a two-and-a-half week trip. in some of the most violent areas last year and some of the places that were seen as essentially no-go areas for coalition forces where the taliban held sway. u.s. forces have made some pretty significant headway. this is in parts of hand car and helmand provinces. part of that is because of the troop surge that was ordered up by president obama. many more boots on the ground. the use of some very sort of heavy-fisted tactics there. a lot of bombs dropped from fighter planes, a lot of heavy munitions fired on the ground. that have made some in-roads but it's a mixed bag, ray. when you look at eastern afghanistan, the taliban is certainly ascendent over there. violence levels are trending dangerous upward there as well as in the northern part of the country. sweef... we've seen also growing attacks against afghan security forces in recent days, as you note. and against afghan civilian targets. >> suare

. >> host: so this is a book about afghanistan and about women's experience in the days of the taliban, and of course under u.s. policy of our engagement there. and it's a chance to really understand how our policy is playing out through the eyes of this one story, the dressmaker, khair kahn and we would like to get your calls for this is the process of making this interactive see you all for your comment by phone order. let me give you the telephone numbers. he strolled the and -- eastern and central time zone is 202-585-3885. if you live in a mountain or how many times did you travel to afghanistan? >> guest: seven times since 2005. i spent about one third of 2008 and one-third of 2009 and a big chunk of 2009 and last year i was there for the july for the kabul conference and i was there in december about seven months pregnant working on maternal health stories. >> host: that wasn't a great way to engage with the women because of common experience. now your career as a political television producer for abc. how did you make the transition from that to writing this book? >> guest: ver

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all these taliban prisoners had to do was wait. the taliban releasing a gloating statement today saying the tunnel reached its target half the night from where the prisoner mujahadin were led away through the escape route by three previously informed inmates. according to a military official, the prisoners were awakened one by one by those in the know and then lowered into the hole. they had to crawl through the dirt and dark the length of four football fields and they had to do it fast. the breakout began at 11:00 p.m. last night. by 3:30 this morning, all 541 prisoners had made it out of there. that means one prisoner every 30 seconds. and no one even reported them missing until four hours after they were gone. but that is likely because many of the guards may have been in on it. today, dozens are unaccounted for. the governor of kandahar immediately took the blame for the intelligence failure, saying this is really our fault. i hope it won't happen in the future. so the u.s. soldiers and marines who find it incredibly frustratin

not far, the taliban raided a house. it took them five months to dig the tunnel. >> we had proper digging equipment and there was so much earth from the tunnel that we carried it away and gradually sold it in the market. we had skilled professionals helping us. trained engineers who advised us on the digging. >> afghan officials admit this is a big setback for security in the area in their war against the insurgency. >> we are look into finding out as to what exactly happened and what's being done to compensate for the disaster that happened in the prison in kandahar and beyond that. >> a huge bomb destroyed the gates in 2008. more than a thousand men escaped. it's here where the jailbreak will be felt most, and the villages around kandahar. these soldiers spent a long summer fighting the taliban. some of them captured and now free again. with the fighting season about to start,, their enemy has just had its ranks replenished. >> now, there are just a few days to go until william and kate's big day. the preparations are

no one helped these women during the taliban.they created jobs and hope at a time when the world had forgotten them and they did it themselves. that is what i think their story is so powerful because it shows how much work they do when no one is looking. tavis: as a country we should have learned by now that you cannot export democracy and freedom. you are making the point that it has to come from within. i feel that there is a role for our government to play in advance of opening up the way. i saw a wonderful story that you did on hillary clinton. she has made this part of her foreign policy. i spent a few weeks traveling with her around the country, around the world in fact, for a special i did with her. she was engaging country after country after country. she has to be a woman. what role and responsibility to we have given that we are in afghanistan, specifically, to press for these roles, these pathways to be open for women? >> i was there in july of last summer. what was fascinating about that is that women have no right to

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taliban control. the governor and five senior staff have been arrested including the head of security have been arrested. >> and they may have had to dig their way inside but this was a prison already under taliban control. insurgents were given keys to the cells. the prison staff sold phones to the men that they were guarding. this made a state easier. the government officials see this as a total breakdown in security both inside and outside the prison. the home from which the tunnel was dog was searched before the escape was made. -- was dug was searched before the escape was made. the insurgents might have used a map to pinpoint where to dig. this was an inside job, says the government. >> it appears that there was collaboration and people inside the prison because this is not imaginable to think that 488 people within four hours can escape. "the warden who once ran this prison, and his senior staff, have been arrested. the search goes on for the men who broke out. so far, only 70 have been caught.

pl all these taliban prisoners had to do was wait.aliban releasing a gloating statement today saying the tunnel reached its target last night. from where the prisoner were led away through the escape route by 3 previously informed inmates. according to a military official, the prisoners were awakeen one by one by those in the know and then lowered into the hole. they had to crawl through the dirt and dark the length of 4 football fields. and they had to do it fast. the break out began at 11:00 p.m. last night. by 3:30 this morning all 5 41 prison hers made it out of there. that means l one prisoner every 30 seconds. and no one even reported them missing until 4 hours after they were gone. but that is likely because many of the guards may have been in on it. today dozens are unaccounted for. the governor of kandahar took the blame for the intelligence failure saying this is really our fault. i hope it won't happen in the future. so do u.s. soldiers and marines who find it incredibly frustrating to have rounded up all these taliban figh

the taliban does not want a free nation. they want an islamic caliphate, which is rooted in the sixth century. in answer to your question, yes, there are economic concerns like pipelines than do impinge on this. there are other concerns, too, there is a drug trade that we would like to stop. much of the world's opium comes from there. we want to stop that happening and encourage things like pipelines. all of those economic concerns take a back seat to organizations like the taliban and al qaeda. the al qaeda organizations that preach a radical form of islam, not the truth is long, and the core of that belief is -- is long, -- islam, and at the core of radical islam is to incite violence. general john allen, continuing executions. in the way it was explained to me. i was trying to get a firsthand rating on the president's intent. the idea was the president has made these decisions. he has embraced the strategy for afghanistan, believes we're executing it. he wants to make sure that as these changes happen, the person in charg

the taliban have told us that the drone strikes have made them alter their behavior. they have had an impact. the militants congregate in the same way that they used to, they have to move around much more. they also tell us the taliban is using the drone campaign as a recruiting tool, talking about the number of civilian deaths, telling people these are american attacks on pakistani soil and they should do something about it to fight the americans. there have been some successed in the drone campaign over the years, particularly the death of the pakistani talabani leader a couple years ago, but otherwise it's not seen that this drone campaign in itself is going to be deconversationive. if you want to clear an area of militants, you have to use ground troops at some stage and other strategies as well, but it is an issue that has certainly caused something of a resurgence in anti-american feeling here and in the coming days, there are more protests planned against drone attacks and against america. >> this is bbc news. a reminder of our top stories -- a libyan minister

and allied forces so that's really what we're seeing today i don't think it has much to do with the taliban or al qaeda yet why do you think there is such i guess a short term focus an inability to really sort of think through the consequences and understand that these kinds of actions really do lead to soldiers' lives being lost workers' lives being lost human people and human beings being killed essentially. well this particular example the church in florida that burned this ground is very small and the news reports tell us that there were no more than thirty worshippers in the church when the qur'an was burned so it hardly represents a very large segment of our population the united states so but because it's so small it make. it a lot easier a lot harder for anybody to control of course we value free speech in the united states and we would never try to prevent this church from doing this sort of activity but clearly it has repercussions the only united states borders and i don't think that the people in the church were really they haven't been considering that when they decided to thre

that's what the taliban were doing going back and forth. that's what the western governments were doing going back and forth. and it also its would work with the fact like the one thing that would keep me sane in a lot of places there was music. and so i thought why not come up with "the taliban shuffle" biggest are soft with welcome to the terror dome and end with hotel california. [laughter] >> just one if you talk a bit about, i think he talked about about this in your book, but the difference between reporting and switches become a part of a lot of the culture in the last two years, and a lot of reporting that you did and the difference between that. >> between that and what? >> going off the reservation. >> i get the question. the program for those of you enough away with it, i think very much everyone is at this point is it takes a just and puts them with a military unit. you go out with a military unit and you see things through their eyes. a lot of people hate the whole idea and they have hated it since it started really an iraq. be

a taliban spokesman said 100 of those who got out were taliban insurgents. security forces launched a huge search operation and have captured some. >> and now here is a look at other stories making news in other parts of america. the skies over southern california became a combat zone when a gunman opened fire on an land chopper. one bullet hit the fuselage forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing. no one was hurt, on the ground, the gunman was subdued by family members. >>> a powerful explosion level a vacant house on long island. 20 nearby residents were taken to the hospital for evaluation. no one was seriously hurt. that explosion is under investigation. >>> a florida woman's uninvited house guest gave her a hair-raising experience when she found a seven-foot alligator in her guest bathroom that apparently got in through a doggy door. the woman and her cats got away unscathed while the animal was removed from the home without incident. and finally. >>> 2,000 grown-ups tabbed into their inner child for the derby. they went down the streets not to wi

has pushed back the taliban. but, now, it's spring and that means the enemy is regrouping in the mountains. our mike boettcher was the only journalist with the 101st airborne. they call themselves the no slack battalion. they were ordered on the dangerous mission to take the fight to the enemy. six soldiers would lose their lives. mike brings us a report on what he calls the fiercest fighting he's seen in his 30 years in war zones. >> reporter: on the freezing afghan mountaintop with pakistan close enough to touch, the men of 1901st airborne, known as no slack battalion, most in their 20s, some with only two weeks left on a year-long deployment, began their descent into hell. the taliban were waiting in their safe haven. a narrow mountain valley. barawala kalet. no foreign troops had ever dared come here. once the furious attack began, we knew why. the taliban were determined to convince the americans to never come back. [ gunfire ] >> the enemy situation right now is they are shooting from a bunch of different p

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the soldiers and a ng summer fightihe taliban. so many capturednow ee agai their enemy just had its ranks replenished. bbc news, kabul. >> i syria now, the crackdown against ts sense -- ainst dissen to t turn. and the dutch governmen activists repoed fighting in the center of the cynd diesn the streets. thsyri government said e troops hadeen invited to hunt do wha italle extrest terrorist oups internationalallsondemning th violence grew evenouder. >> the syrian govnmenmade it clear today theyill tolerate dissent traordinary scenes as tanks rumbled down e strts, trying to sze thecity back om protesters the army moved in in forc firing at demonstrator these images,which we cnot verify, are said to have been repoed today on mobile phos. they made cle what th thk othe invadin sian army. >> ear mninge received inrmation from two people the that thermy hadircled the ty. there were numr ofanks. six nks. and all we see is e ftage that number of tv stationare playing. >> sya is tryg touthlessly crushed resistance. ousands are said to hav b

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has been gaining ground against the taliban, so commanders were expecting a retaliation. general david petraeus saw it coming. >> suicide attacks in particular have been frustrated at the loss of safe haven. >> reporter: this crater left by a roadside bomb planted in kunar province is seen as a sign of taliban desperation. >> this is the only way they're able to affect us in any great degree. >> reporter: a 14-year-old would-be suicide bomber captured by pakistani authorities earlier this month before he could detonate his vest confessed that he trained with 350 other would-be suicide bombers at a taliban/al qaeda base near the afghan/pakistan border. in kandahar province, the commander general fully expects his enemy to hit back with a bombing campaign. >> come back june, july, august, september, we're going to be standing here. >> reporter: another tough, bloody spring and summer to come, as the taliban trades its bullets for bombs. mike boettcher, abc news, kunar province, afghanistan. >> our thanks to mike tonight. >>> still ahead on "world news" this sunday evening,

so i thought why not come up with a taliban shuffle? it starts off with the welcome to the terrordome and ends with "hotel california." [laughter] >> hi, kim. um, just wondering if you could talk a bit about -- i think you talk about this in your book, but the difference between reporting which has become a lot of the culture in the last few years and a lot of the reporting that you did and the difference you see in between that. >> between that and what? no, i get your question. no, no, no. >> [inaudible] >> with i get the question. the program for those of you not familiar with it, and i think pretty much everybody is at this point is it takes a journalist and puts them with a particular military unit, and you go out with the military unit, and you see things through their eyes. a lot of people hate the whole idea of embeds, and they've hated it since it started, really, in the iraq because they say it gives you unilateral reporting, you don't get the other side and on and on. i thought embeds were great as long as you saw how limited

that is supposed to be working together with pakistani intelligence to the taliban fight al qaeda in pakistan meanwhile the i.s.i. is known to have a longstanding deep relationship with taliban groups they didn't and after nine eleven. well i think the bottom line here is a lack of trust between the pakistanis and the americans and i think it has to do with exactly the problems that you cite there are lots of connections between pakistan's i.s.i. and a lot scary to you both for instance very very powerful terrorist organization on the other hand of course i.s.i. itself has been the major terrorist target in pakistan many. killed but it seems that senior i.s.i. thinkers and lower level figures are on both sides of the divide they're very tight connections between them of the tower daryn for instance in afghanistan and the taliban government when it thrived really did so under the protection of the i.s.i. and that's something that the american cia is quite familiar with as quite they're trying very hard to keep tabs on it but there is the lack of basic trust and that has really fueled

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in fact in many places in afghanistan where you have the defective taliban control of districts most of our staff would already have some sort of dialogue in terms of how we miscible what the to do xy and z and there are many red lines we have to more we deal with pity if it's a program that focuses on maternal child health care how far are they going to allow us to work with women's groups etc.? in terms of working at a higher level i think most of these agencies at the table would agree it is our goal to support the afghan government and the strategy said that the national level and that involves the ministry level. so, you know, we do recognize good community led development cannot be sustained without proper government at some level and that we still need a functioning state organ. >> thank you mr. tiefer. did we have somebody that wanted to quickly respond? >> in response to your questions one of the things in the field as farmers are growing pot because any traditional experience because they love it, there's a culture of poppy growing. it's because it is generally profitable a