pakistan with increased cooperation leading to drone strikes. is pack stab doing enough, gary, or do they could a whole lot more? pakistan s relationship with the intelligence community has been up and down over the years. this capture of baradar, they haven t provided access to him. but they ve made steps. part of the reason, considering the afghan region, this is holbrooke driving it. and there is the concern about the unintended consequences when a drone strikes, terrorizes, and some some cases accidentally kills unintentional civilians. there is a chance that it could lose that and al qaeda and taliban can sort of use the drone strikes as a way to get people to turn on the progress they made against al qaeda? boots on the ground in those areas would change would
about that relationship which will not bode well for pakistan. we re going to have to convince the pakistanis that, you know, some of the past transgressions will have you know, will be set aside and allow us to move forward to destroy the taliban as an organization. we re only going to do that if we get direct access to them. final thoughts, mike? i think gary is right but i m also afraid it s gone on too long. the taliban and al-qaida are very smart organizations. they ve changed their codes, they ve changed their methods of procedure. they ve changed a lot of things that baradar could tell us. we ve really wasted a lot of times so far not having him in our custody. michael, gary, thanks. since that tragic suicide bombing in that region, the c.i.a. has done incredible things in taking down the taliban from the pakistani area and the ungoverned areas and what not. gary and michael, thanks for joining us for our weekly caucus. thank you, sir. all right. straight ahead, we t
they re ready. while that now rages the rest of the top military leader has been called. u.s. forces have been fighting the afghan taliban. never have security forces arrest aid figure more significant than mola abdul boragi. baradar is second only to its leader. one analyst called barader a facto leader. peter, how significant is the arrest? what kind of information does
also, their governing structure. their internal command structure which is not exactly like an american military command structure, but is a lot more organized and accountable than what the americans had seen in afghan security forces before. very quickly. the pakistani government s decision to help us capture the taliban commander and obviously, he s in some sort of joint custody now. the u.s. government won t say whether it s pakistani custody or cia custody. why now, i m told baradar is not the only guy worth getting. so are they going to help with the other people? yeah, the two people below him or above him is a huge open question. but the question of why now is because it was a strategic pakistani decision that now is a good time. they presumably have known where he is for a long time. right, this is not news where he was.
minute delays, philly 40-minute delays and san francisco also seeing 40-minute delays. one other note as far as what we re seeing is cold air across the south. it s 25 in atlanta. a couple of snow flurries in north central georgia so that will be the ongoing theme with cold air rolling through around that area of low pressure. i mentioned cincinnati, snow on the rooftops there. they saw a record for the most in a 24-hour period yesterday and so far they have had a record for the month of february with over 23 inches in the queen city and we re not even halfway through, so everybody getting a piece of the action as far as the snowfall records go this winter. thanks, rob. well, did you ever try to pull a fast one with a license plate? you know, get a vanity tag that spelled out something nasty or offensive in a subtle way? we tried to think of something g-rated to make the point but we failed. states are pretty good at red flagging that stuff so an oklahoma man wanted im gay on