deaf exis . it s time to clear the air. and one of the most disturbing revelations over the last two days is that osama bin laden had been living close to a military training center and one of pakistan s biggest cities for something like six years and nobody appears to have noticed. the compound itself was about eight times the size of other houses in the area. and was protected by large walls and razor wire. clear signs that someone was protecting himself inside the property. this has raised the suspicion that pakistani authorities were even entirely incompetent or were involved with providing the terrorist with support systems that protected him from capture for almost a decade. now there are some who are saying that america s financial assistance to pakistan, which over the last 10 years amounts to well over $20 billion, should be slashed immediately and not reinstated until that nation s government can be trusted. but before we react too quickly,
hello. this is world one. live from london. our top stories this hour, thousands of workers across egypt are on strike today as anti-government protesters keep up the momentum after more than two weeks. demonstrators in cairo s tahrir square are renewing the call for president mubarak to leave office immediately. the. the pakistani taliban is claiming responsibility for a suicide bomber in northwest pakistan which killed 27 army recruits and injured 34 others. the attack happened at a military training center near pashwar. they believe he was 14 years old and wearing a school uniform. harsh winter weather is slamming the u.s. for the second time in just two weeks. weather warnings are enforce
past. conor powell is following the visit and is streaming live from kabul. despite today s hug, vice president joe biden and president karzai have long had a frosty relationship, vice president biden argued against the current u.s. counterinsurgency strategy here and the surge of u.s. troops. but today, vice president biden seems to embrace both karzai and the u.s. strategy here, even argueing that things seem to be going reasonably well and progress is being made. today biden went to an afghan military training center, at the core of the strategy, building up the afghan government and afghan security forces. later in the day he then met with general david petraeus, u.s. ambassador karl eikenberry and afghan president hamid karzai and biden expressed support for the current strategy, support for karzai and essentially pledged the united states will not cut and run from afghanistan and that the u.s. will be here long after u.s. troops withdraw from afghanistan in
to sweden where he faces sex crime charges. until the next hearing, he has to stay at his friend s house, that big old mansion in england. he s subject to mansion arrest. another fox news alert. within the past hour, secretary of state hillary clinton arrived in yemen for a surprise visit. the country is a fragile ally that s turning into a breeding ground for terrorists. she s expected to press yemeni leaders to crack down on extremists. the u.s. cleric that officials say inspired recent attacks against america including the fort hood shooting and attempted underwear bombing is likely hiding out in yemen. vice president joe biden meantime in afghanistan to get a first hand look at the war effort as the u.s. plans to withdrawing combat troops. that s going to be in july. biden visited a military training center. the program is teaching afghan recruits to fight as well as reading rights. biden met with president hamid karzai, coalition troops hope to train about 300,000 army and pol
of 1,500 or 2,000, those are soldiers against that hillside there. and they are conducting battle drills, react to ieds, react to ambushes and things like that. in terms of square of soldiers. exactly. they city organized. looks like a game of risk. that s me and lieutenant colonel mike lows at the kabul military training centers. all 22,000 acres of that military training center. many of those acres littered with dead soviet tanks. in fact, there are so many dead soviet tanks on this training ground, that they use heavy equipment to move them around, to make them into boundaries for various training grounds. the fact that the soviets used this spot for military training and the british before them used this spot for military training and now we re using it for military training is a bracing little reminder that we are not the first empire to try to swagger or stalk or slog through afghanistan. that said, some of the way we are slogging through is very 21st century. take, for