in resolving, such as detention facilities control, night operations and the future growth of the afghan army. these are all ongoing. president karzai told the newspaper, the taliban are people with families just like everyone else. they are suffering and want peace. leon panetta was asked on capitol hill whether the taliban are the enemy of the u.s. the taliban as you know, congressman, is a very broad group. our primary enemy in that part of the world is al-qaida, and the taliban elements, the terrorist elements that support al-qaida are also our enemy. reporter: so far no comment on the white house on this report of three-way secret talks with the taliban. it was confirmed by military officials in afghanistan. jon: what a development after ten years of war. steve centanni, thanks. jenna: fox news alert on new unemployment numbers. weekly jobless claims fell by
approved we analyze these plants for the worst possible earthquake within 200 miles and then we add margin to it and then a conservative analysis. so we have quite significant confidence about the ability of our plants to withstand any sort of seismic event. we go well beyond that in the way that we put our procedures, our equipment and train our people to assure that we can meet any sort of event that might unfold at one of our plants. all right, paul, are you assuaged by that? you say it s the gold standard. do you think it s enough? well, i think tokyo electric power company basically said the same thing until the earthquake they hadn t figured on showed up. and certainly the same is true for the japanese nuclear safety industry. look, japan is a very highly technical society. these power plants were not fly by night operations in terms of
gets delivered in june. in fact, eight pakistani pilots just graduated from flight training in tucson, arizona. american military instructors taught them how to fly the newer model f-16 which gives pakistan the ability to conduct night operations. we re training our allies so that they can fly, fight, and win with us. and, jill, the area where the united states wants to win is right here. north waziristan, where it s sort of a terrorist syndicate has been operating. but the u.s. says it needs more than the military to fight terrorism in pakistan. if it wants to pull away civilians from the terrorist, it needs to provide for the real needs of the people. reporter: which is why the u.s. has pledged $1.5 billion in development and counterterrorism aid, and even more funding to meet pakistan s energy needs by building power plants. reporter: al qaeda s new power in pakistan isn t so much training its own attackers, it s co-opting other terrorist groups
i would think the advantage is, you could drill lots of holes, look in lots of rooms as opposed to having to do bigger holes and learn you re basically digging into dry wells. exactly. they conduct night operations. we have thermal imaging cameras that would enlighten it for us. night vision glasses would allow us to work well into the night, if we had the security afforded to us. i want to get into the seismology, if you will. rob, is there any correlation that can be made as a trigger effect between the haiti earthquake and this earthquake? not really. people have asked that question a lot. but we just don t know in this case. the distances are too great and we don t know the plate interactions that well. let s look at the plate interactions that we are familiar with. specifically the ring of fire which runs obviously up the west coast of sufficient america, west coast of north america, across the aleutian islands and