afghan president meeting overnight in kabul. they were trying to diffuse tensions over the mass killings of those afghan civilian, allegedly by an american army soldier who has now been moved out of afghanistan. a deadly school bus crash in southern pennsylvania. the bus driver was killed when the packed bus collided with a semitruck on the highway. 28 students were injured. 6 had to be air lifted to a hospital. two inmates pardoned got driver s licenses and cars while they were still behind bars. all of this courtesy of the governor, his wife and his staff. ed lavendera with a cnn exclusive coming up. up first, with tensions rising in afghanistan meeting in kabul overnight. the u.s. soldier accused in a mass killing of afghan civilians has been moved out of the country to a military base in kuwait. that s angered lawmakers who want the american to be tried on afghan soil. and, this morning, there s word of new protests, as well. there are so many new developments overn
contractor, afghan civilian, a plumber perhaps what we re hearing, who walked into the job sunday and pulled out a weapon, killing one american and wounding another. so far, the u.s. has not identified either one of those individuals, leading us to believe it probably was a cia employee or operative of some kind that was killed and perhaps even the one who was wounded. not only was this the second attack recently on the u.s. embassy compound or at least the annex of the compound, there in kabul, it s the second brazen attack against the cia in a couple of years. back in december of 2009. an alleged informant walked into a u.s. base in eastern afghanistan near coast and blew himself up, killing seven cia employees at the time. what s new this morning, according to u.s. officials, they can find no connection, no evidence, no intel, no
the afghans don t want us there for ever. so to have a long-term solution, you need the afghans themselves to buy into this fight. to make this fight their own. but why would you if you were an afghan civilian, why would you do that if the government you re fighting to protect, that you re risking your life for is corrupt? it s a contradictory message we re delivering. peter, you see the corruption. you see these mcmansions going up in kabul which are owned by people associated with the government who earn a small fraction of a salary that there s no way they could pay for this, then that wikileaks cable that talked about one high afghan official found in i think it was dubai with a suitcase full of, you know, 50 some-odd million dollars. yeah, his stated income is several hundred dollars a month and according to this new york times correspondent his house in dubai, a very nice neighborhood, there was a rolls royce parked in the drive. so sebastian is right, the
ready answer. and in my opinion, it s the heart of the issue. the heart of the issue? yeah, it is. look. it s the u.s. military. it s nato. if you put enough american soldiers somewhere, they re going to win at least for a while. they re going to kill everyone who s fighting them. that s kind of a given. but the problem is that s not a long-term solution. we can t stay there for ever. the afghans don t want us there for ever. so to have a long-term solution, you need the afghans themselves to buy into this fight. to make this fight their own. but why would you if you were an afghan civilian, why would you do that if the government you re fighting to protect, that you re risking your life for is corrupt? it s a contradictory message we re delivering. peter, you see the corruption. you see these mcmansions going up in kabul which are owned by people associated with the government who earn a small fraction of a salary that there s no way they could pay for this, then that wikileak
afghanistan? i think because it s a problem that doesn t have a ready answer. and in my opinion, it s the heart of the issue. the heart of the issue? yeah, it is. look. it s the u.s. military. it s nato. if you put enough american soldiers somewhere, they re going to win at least for a while. they re going to kill everyone who s fighting them. that s kind of a given. but the problem is that s not a long-term solution. we can t stay there for ever. the afghans don t want us there for ever. so to have a long-term solution, you need the afghans themselves to buy into this fight. to make this fight their own. but why would you if you were an afghan civilian, why would you do that if the government you re fighting to protect, that you re risking your life for is corrupt? it s a contradictory message we re delivering. peter, you see the corruption. you see these mcmansions going up in kabul which are owned by people associated with the government who earn a small fraction of a sala