reporting slamming his car into a crowd of israelis in jerusalem. they say attacker plowed over the curb and got out of the curb and stabbed a pedestrian. they re treating this as terror attack. john huddy live in jerusalem. what are the latest details here? reporter: , well martha, police say the attacker is a palestinian man from east jerusalem where this happened. earlier today, at this point, martha, it appears he was acting alone. take a look this is some video we recently got from the scene earlier as police say, as you were talking about martha, the man drove his vehicle up on to the curb outside of a border police station in east jerusalem, hitting seven people. six female border police officers and pedestrian. the man jumped out of the vehicles we ve been talking about with a knife and stabbed a person before a security guard shot him. this man was seriously wounded and in police custody right now. those seven people were taken to the hospital, with minor
no one. the cables describe afghan president hamid karzai as paranoid and weak, and according to the new york times, show pervasive corruption in his government. in one cable a senior afghan official told the u.s. embassy that of the $200 million collected in trucking fees, just 30 million actually got to where it was supposed to go. that s $170 million. poof. vanished. another revelation? last year, the then-vice president was caught by customs carrying $52 million in cash into the united arab emirates. and in august 2009 american embassy report complained that karzai pardoned five border police officers who were caught with more than 250 pounds of heroin. nato supreme commander said last week he sees gradual steady progress and says one of the keys is turning security over to the afghans themselves. but if you believe the cables that the united states doesn t trust anyone in the afghan government. so how is that transfer supposed to happen?
president hamid karzai as paranoid and weak, and according to the new york times, show pervasive corruption in his government. in one cable a senior afghan official told the u.s. embassy that of the $200 million collected in trucking fees, just $30 million actually got to where it was supposed to go. that s $170 million. poof. vanished. another revelation? last year, the then-vice president was caught by customs carrying $52 million in cash into the united arab emirates. and in august 2009 american embassy report complained that karzai pardoned five border police officers who were caught with more than 250 pounds of heroin. nato supreme commander said last week he sees gradual steady progress and says one of the keys is the transition, turning security over to the afghans themselves. but if you believe the cables that the united states doesn t trust anyone in the afghan government. so how is that transfer supposed to happen? peter bergen is learning from
vanished. another revelation? last year, the then-vice president was caught by customs carrying $52 million in cash into the united arab emirates. and in august 2009 american embassy report complained that karzai pardoned five border police officers who were caught with more than 250 pounds of heroin. nato supreme commander said last week he sees gradual steady progress and says one of the keys is the transition, turning security over to the afghans themselves. but if you believe the cables that the united states doesn t trust anyone in the afghan government. so how is that transfer supposed to happen? peter bergen is learning from afghan and u.s. military sources that the much-talked about 2011 troop draw down will be at best a token effort, that our strength will remain pretty much intact. so bottom line, we re there, we re staying but things are clearly not working. cnn national security analyst peter bergen joins us live from
what we know now after reading the cables, what exactly are we doing over there? we re roughly three to $400 billion into this war so far and the cables make clear there s pretty much no one we can trust in average. let me repeat that. communication between u.s. diplomats show we do not have a reliable partner in afghanistan. no one. the cables describe afghan president hamid karzai as paranoid and weak, and according to the new york times, show pervasive corruption in his government. in one cable a senior afghan official told the u.s. embassy that of the $200 million collected in trucking fees, just 30 million actually got to where it was supposed to go. that s $170 million. poof. vanished. another revelation? last year, the then-vice president was caught by customs carrying $52 million in cash into the united arab emirates. and in august 2009 american embassy report complained that karzai pardoned five border police officers who were caught