also the taliban has rejected talks with the taliban and the afghan government. coalition forces and. forces are present. in afghanistan and actually dia has been not has not been and is serious negotiation between taliban and afghan government till now. there are a lot of domestic rifts but it's been suggested now that the taliban is negotiating as a united organization does this mean the tension between different militant factions is being forgotten in order to find a deal. first of all i want to mention that talk talk which is. taking place in. kabul now according to washington post and according to some there's forces between the taliban and the government of afghanistan representatives actually this talks talk is not between the government of afghanistan and taliban that is and it isn't taliban as i mentioned has rejected this kind of talks with the government off afghanistan there are some people they are not represent then take taliban or even not the government of afghanistan participating in this round off talks with the government of afghanistan in kabu

taliban denying that. a problem of the afghan government is they don't know who exactly is in charge of the taliban right now and believed mullah omar is in next door in pakistan and realize the fighting unit isn't working in a strict structure and may not follow the orders of exile leaders across the border. >> thank you very much for your coverage. we'll talk to you tomorrow. >>> the future of being connected. i want to talk to you about something entirely different and all about video and the big i. here's a question to ponder. what country has the highest percentage of wired citizens? is it'sland, japan, the united states or canada? take a hard guess at that. ♪ [ male announcer ] ever have morning pain slow you down? introducing bayer am, an extra strength pain reliever with alertness aid to fight fatigue. so get up and get goin'! with new bayer am. the morning pain reliever. can stop frequent heartburn before it begins? heartburn happens when stomach acid refluxes into the esophagus. prilosec otc us

you have to destroy al qaeda period the taliban you have to defeat because the taliban are pashtun there are many taliban and there's alabama and we'll just keep sitting around waiting for us to leave but i mean there are many well there's a difference right if you have a government in afghanistan that can govern and defend itself then the taliban have a choice they can they can do you disarm or reintegrate and then they can be pashtuns just like everybody else and that's and you don't have a government but i can honestly say i don't have a government that can run the on a nigerian through my question thank you that's what i do but they have the government is now supposedly negotiating with this taliban and we act like nothing to do with it ok we're out of time unfortunately but i thank you. so to come on the show tonight why is defense spending ever on the table and why are we constantly in a state of war it's the washington war machine the think tanks and it runs our policy. well how does that make the troops feel when their wives are treated like toys or diver these are in just one. c

the taliban insurgents, of course, didn't come. so it was decided to turn the commander's house into a girls' school. there's nothing in the koran, the jirga members told me, that rules out educating girls. and so it was that two days later at 8:00 a.m. we went back to taliban commander be legal's former home to find it crammed to capacity with 2812 girls. there were girls, in fact, in every single room and at least 100 more girls on the roof. >> (translated): nibble god and so i do not fear the taliban. i know that one day we will die and when that day comes nothing will stop it. for now i'm just happy i can teach my students in this building, even if it's not a proper school. >> reporter: in the new girls school, they're betting that balil, the taliban commander, will think twice before bombing his own home. >> suarez: beyond those killed, the pakistan government said, the floods have left 20 million homeless. >> brown: finally tonight, the role and responsibilities of the supreme court as explored in a new book "making our democ

in afghanistan say we are going to talk to negotiate with the taliban. low level taliban fighters. to afghanistan government to participate in this process and political process afghanistan but the government of the united steel has rejected talks with the taliban leadership in a way where extremist elements taliban and they are controlling the government or for the united states or the government of afghanistan doesn't want to talk to taliban leadership. who are in pakistan or inside afghanistan how it is also for you to achieve peace without talking with this level of taliban but talking with a low level taliban i don't think. is affective to bring peace and stability afghanistan under their hand taliban are thinking that they are winning the war against the united states and near two forces and resolutely we have seen their significant change in their and taliban policy and for the first time very simply after two months the taliban top office late about rolling afghanistan think that there will defeat their foreign troops in afghanistan and ultimately they will rule afghanistan

there were taliban police patrolling the roads and taliban construction crews repairing roads. it was a mini-state. there were large explosions in the largest town in north waziristan and there is a pakistani military base but they did not come off to investigate the explosions. throw my captivity, my guards watched videos that created an alternate reality for young taliban. they portrayed a global alliance at war with islam. they believed 9/11 attacks were staged to occupy muslim countries and believed tens of thousands of afghan civilians had been killed in the bombing initially in 2001. i was in captivity during the israeli attack on gaza. and indian attacks on kashmir. they identified with this as a global struggle. afghanistan believes -- they believed that americans were carrying out forced conversions to christianity and focusing women to work as prostitutes. after living with a young pakistani who was training to be a suicide bomber, he seemed amused by me and he's out westerners and myself as weak and focused on earthly pressures -- pleasures. he heard all christians w

i was among the most hard line taliban afghan-taliban network that kidnapped me. what i say doesn't apply to the other groups in afghanistan that thought to be more moderate. this group is closest to al cay dan fields. i was kit napped with others at th time in november of 2008. we were kid kidnapped an hour outside of kabul and drove for two days in the afghan country side and didn't see in the afghan government or united states security forces during that period and walked over the mountainings into the tribal areas of pakistan and saw all the government check posts were abandoned by pakistani forces and instead young taliban were monitoring the posts. through the seven months in activity myself and my afghan colleagues saw that there were foreign militants strolling lo the markets in major towns and they were relaxed. i watcd a local soccer game with my face covered with a scarf and could see militants watching the games. there were taliban police patrolling the roads and construction crews repairing road. it was a ministate. my guardsook bomb making classes, a

qaida taliban monitoring team discusses reports that high- level leaders of the taliban are in negotiation over ending the war in afghanistan. "washington journal" is next. . . host: latest and last poll on campaign 2010 from politico. republicans on the verge of brought wins next week. host: sherry, md., independent. how do you plan to boat? caller: i am an independent that lives in maryland. i have not decided who to vote for yet. i have voted for bob ehrlich in the past. i am considering him again. i guess that the main thing that i want to say is that the reason i am an independent, i am more of a pragmatist than an ideologue. host: finish your thought. caller: i do not like the ideological left. also, i respect the position of convicted people that have deep convictions regarding the left and the right. i certainly think that what we need now is pragmatism. host: let me ask you a couple of things. and you said you were an independent from maryland, is that some kind of difference? caller: is a very democratic here. because i care about voting in the primaries, i have registered democr

paying the taliban so that the taliban shoot at their convoys so that they can supply their troops so that they can go out and battle against the taliban. if you're on the ground there you see all kinds of catch twenty two like that doesn't make any sense. people are making money off it and some of. those people are afghans and some of those people are americans and and others but the generality of afghan people are suffering enormously you know we've been we've been at this since we went in the late seventy's to try to lure the the soviets to come in we've been meddling in those affairs and we've consistently backed the wrong people who have blown back to haunt us and i think that the this snarl that we've made for ourselves in afghanistan now is is so entangled so complex. i don't know how the united states could extricate itself with some sort of honor and consideration for the afghan people you know when you look back in history when it comes to war and conflict uprising we've seen a soviet union fail we've seen britain falle we've seen those like china is caught on alexander the

>> we call that taliban hill. we put the information over the enemy's head. >> you had the close call august 28th. you had them cutting your wire over there and making it this field. describe what happened how the men here spotted the insurgents and opened tire? >> first man-made his way through the guard here and the tower spotted him with night vision devices opened up the 240 here injured back to the breech point continued to open fire on what were 15-20 more insurgents behind that. >> they end of the day after an hour's worth of fighting we killed 47 insurgents 15 were with suicide vests. it was a significant attack against this. >> 47 confirmed dead and 15 of them had suicide vests on? >> 15 were fully rigged with suicide guests fully loaded ak 7 magazines and outfitted in the uniform i am wearing right here right now. >> that is commander rick yuling talking about 47 enemy dead. >> why don't we hear that news? >> it is not about body count. on that action 47 killed we found one b bid. any time they want to m

and i really think there's an incentive now for the taliban to start negotiations because they they really do i think. may be staying the course in that in that region so and in regards to the economy in that work i think there may be a divide now between the taliban and the economy that work and. i think we can deal with the economy and work separately and i think if we take out afghanistan and the taliban out of this equation and now i think the real war is in pakistan that needs to be fought i am definitely not the only one that is saying that which makes the fact that we are still at war in afghanistan nine years later all that much more difficult to consider especially since pakistan really is now the region we should be focusing thanks so much for joining us. thank you. ok just ahead on the show this anniversary is prompting veterans to ask when the war will end with you volunteering to serve abroad soldiers are forced to do repeated tours of duty despite fighting physical and psychological problems of their own correspondent when ford will have that story and we've talked about the

suspected taliban gunmen struck a parking area, setting fire to a dozen tanker trucks and killing one driver. according to the "wall street journal," a new white house report is critical of pakistan's government for failing to aggressively take on either the taliban or al qaeda. >>> in yemen this morning, an attack on a british diplomat. a yemeni official says a mortar round exploded near a motorcade not far from the embassy in the capital. at least three bystanders were injured. >>> in western hungary, efforts under way to contain an ecological disaster.

this was once a hot bed of the taliban. right now we are going into a bizarre. but with the first battalion 506 regiment there, part of the band of brothers famed unit. getting to and from these villages is often very dangerous for the military. those roads are often lined with ied's. many times the ied's used against our military are made with some pretty crude devices. pressure cookers and fertilizers and a lot of times you can see the pressure cookers stored in market beside the -- store. a vehicle destructive device. they blow up a car or a bus or whatever it may to be injure soldiers and then they come and attack the soldiers with small arms fire. sometimes rpg's so these fires are on the ready. >> when the 506 are not on foot. patrols are conducted in heavily armed vehicles called m wraps which are credited with saving many lives. [explosion] >> soldiers survived this attack. but within the last two weeks, the 506 lost two soldiers when taliban snipers set their deadly sights as they exited the crippled vehicles. >> we're just told that we have to get insi

fight its cause they can easily be copied by al-qaeda and the taliban they can easily make. the us forces fail the video clips you want here they. don't have a clearly you want to hang. out in some cases the way soldiers videos are prankish and childish other times they're downright criminal or extremely provocative in this clip u.s. soldiers burn the bodies of good muslims facing mecca today in afghanistan the internet is becoming more and more popular but look around it's no surprise that in a place like this there's still only a few people who have access to it so you'd someone's home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon he's here watching videos that make him angry one of the only going on we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new americans are talking about human rights watch where you can see the proof online version it's alone so the do to. internet cafes all the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed the small and overcrowded cafe for the past two months and although the connections slow it's fast enough to keep people dumbed down

not now elements of the taliban but the know now but the taliban in order to reconcile an acceptable terms they need to be under constant military pressure you're saying they have to so they have to surrender is that they have to surrender they have to surrender when they have the upper hand right now why would they even do that. they don't have the you know. it's an ongoing fight and you don't know who to surrender but they don't they do have to accept certain terms and those terms include renunciation of violence acceptance of the surrenders and we say we're there to already solution which is rather ok so go ahead this is the problem the idea that we're going to get the taliban which is by far a politically stronger than the afghan government to say that it's going to agree to join or you know to serve that that government and its present constitution is absurd because it's never going to happen and u.s. officials know that very well i just did a story last week quoting somebody who within the government saying yeah we know. oh the terms that you know who they are through every rea

ok the reality is that in both afghanistan and in pakistan the taliban both afghan taliban and pakistani taliban have grown in strength they have more followers now than they did before they have more people they do not have any more popular joint than they did before they have much they have more easily popular support than they are not needed and i let you know that ok garrett go ahead continue go ahead yeah i mean within within the fatah area region the people in the cia the cia operators of the drone strikes according to jeffrey who is the head of the center for terrorism law say mary's university who is the former legal advisor to special forces and who has contacts with people who who are in this program itself told me and i wrote a story about this that the cia operators are very much opposed to the drone strikes in pakistan why because they know they have evidence from intercepts of communications and other evidence that the cia has gathered that they are having the opposite effect from what they're supposed to have which is to somehow. dissipate the strength of al qaida and its

there are he levels of taliban: hard cor, old school guys; the guys who are allies but not taliban; and then tom, dick and harry inside afghanistan who will fight for anyone if they are paid. these talks at the high of the level but i think we just sending a message that some of you guys are giving up. >>shepard: is there a message for the american people? >>guest: pakistan needs to kick out the leaders of the taliban, and the other networks. this is a legitimate story. if two nations agree not to harbor terrorists you have a starting point but we are not at that point. >>shepard: who do we trust here? in a trust karzai mode? >>guest: he is the devil we know, rather than the devil we don't. he is some what okay but he has his own agenda. he was brought in because of his relationship with the taliban and some wanted him to the a u.n. republic for omar but what we are missing, the other side of the scale, which is the people that hate the taliban that love the west, this is the north, the ethnic minorities in the north. they do not want the taliban to come back in any way, shape or form a

and there is a new interest on the part of the taliban. everybody, i think, tends toward the view that general petraeus repeatedly says, that is this is the only way it's going to end. it's going to take a long time to end it so we might as well get started. >> warner: has this gotten started, though, earlier than it might have, colonel lamm if it weren't for this july 20th -- july 2011 deadline. >> i think the deadline is an impetus to get things moving. the downside of the 2011 deadline is that while it may be forcing some people to come and to talk and to get serious about what an end game is, the problem with a 2011 deadline is that they may also be planning an end game that is not in the interest of nato or the regional actors, ie, a rebeginning of a great game where they use afghanistan as strategic depth for india, and pakistan and a proxy war in iran and so on and so forth. >> warner: also why wouldn't the taliban leadership just hunker down? >> well w the july deadline, they, in fact, a strategy would be just, just to hunker down,

is his government holding secret high-level talks with the taliban? >> we have been talking to the taliban as countrymen. >> larry: what's he doing about allegations of corruption? what about osama bin laden? is there a future for afghanistan? an open interview with president hamid karzai is next on larry king. great pleasure to welcome to larry king president hamid karzai. he is the president of afghanistan. he comes to us from the presidential palace in kabul. thank you for being with us. we've just marked the ninth anniversary of this war. did you ever think it would take so long? >> no, sir. i never thought it was going to take so long. in 2001 when this whole effort against extremism and terrorism began, the afghan people and the international community joined hands and the victory came within a month and a half. subsequent to that, we all felt that now it was going to be the rebuilding of afghanistan and towards a more secure, brighter future. parts of it we achieved. parts it which was security and the absolute defeat of terrorism, not yet. >>

militants or taliban commanders. i think there is some distrust also from the side of the afghans toward the u.s. government, believe it or not, which is providing a lot of money here, because of some criticism of u.s. policies to supply money and/or weapons to certain war lords which are viewed to subvert the authority of the central afghan government as well. what we can point out are a couple of trends here, don. as we've ramped up the number of u.s. troops, international troops and international aid coming to afghanistan, for some reason the violence has only continued to spread. and i don't have an answer for why that is happening. don? >> ivan watson, thank you very much. we appreciate your reporting. >>> straight ahead on cnn, what women are not telling their gynecologist could end up hurting them. elizabeth cohen what you should never keep secret. pearblossom h? it's just outside of lancaster. sure, i can download directions for you now. we got it. thank you very much! check it out. i can like, see everything

at least one taliban leader has come here to kabul, in the past three weeks. other talks have taken place in the region. general david petraeus said last week that neither american nor coalition representatives are involved in the low-level talks. but international forces are facilitating taliban travel and guaranteeing safe passage. u.s. officials say that talks with the taliban have been a long-standing goal that could be on the verge of happening, thanks, in part, to ramped-up, counterterrorism operations. in this video, acquired by abc news yesterday, 60 taliban fighters turned their weapons in to afghan an american forces in the northern province of konduz. today, talks are planned in the maldive islands with an insurgent faction. these are preliminary discussions that the taliban denies are taking place. in order for talks to happen, the taliban has said that foreign forces must leave afghanistan. afghanistan says the taliban has to lay down their weapons. both are far from becoming a reality. alex marquardt, abc news, kabul. >>> months after a double-ag