foot under. a year ago well one thing that is the concern here is that some of these are senior taliban inmates. what do we know about this? what does this tell you, i guess, about security in the fight we re having with the taliban in the region? well, i think this is quite a big deal. there are two major prisons in afghanistan, one is in kandahar and one near kabul. the one near kandahar the heart of the taliban insurgency, you know, houses some of the most dangerous taliban prisoners, 500 approximately have escaped, similar to a large escape that happened from the same prison in 2008. it s i think quite a black eye for the u.s. and nato and the afghan government, who have put quite a lot of resources in trying to improve the prison systems and here you have this massive prison break with, you know, certainly some pretty hard core taliban prisoners who escaped in the last 24 hours from this prison. didn t think you could still tunnel your way out but,
how embarrassing is this for hamid karzai, for nato, for the obama administration? i think it s quite embarrassing. there s basically two main prisons in afghanistan. one is outside kabul and this one in kandahar where the prison break has happened for the second time. and the hard core taliban claiming 106 commanders, i think that s a not implausible campaign. if kandahar is the center of the taliban insurgency, this is the hard core of the taliban. it s a real black eye. u.s. taxpayers have spent half a billion dollars trying to bolster afghan police forces, but they seem to be nonxaisent right now. was this money just thrown away? the afghan police is in particularly poor shape. they re not very well paid. so they tend to be corrupt. they re not very well trained. my guess is that the taliban probably benefited from some
taliban insurgency, which could delay the pullout date for the u.s. troops, 2014. boy, this doesn t offer too many assurances for the people of afghanistan or afghanistan s allies. five months with no government. oh, boy. now let s talk about jean-claude baby doc duvalier making his way back to haiti. a surprise to many people outside haiti except those that he says he has lots of friends helping to finance his life for the past 25 years in exile. do we have a really concrete reason as why t.o. why? we know he says he wants to be part of reconstruction, but really why. no, we don t. even though he spoke for the first time last night, he said he s there in sympathy with the quake victims. he did offer sort of sympathy for the victims of his own dictatorship, a brutal dictatorsh dictatorship. he might be facing some charges on human rights allegations. he is facing charges of miss appropriation of funds.
about bowe bergdahl and the efforts to find him? reporter: his family did confirm it was him in the video. it was released by part of a larger video by a production house which has been long associated with the taliban insurgency. this is a short clip in a much longer video. what we had not really seen before were those photos, those images of bowe bergdahl outside. he is standing next to a man identified as a member of the insurgency inside afghanistan, but we don t know when these were taken. we don t know if he is in afghanistan or across the border in pakistan. he was 23 years old when he disappeared about 18 months ago from his base in eastern afghanistan. he is listed as missing captured. one of the interesting things is you see in this latest release he is clean shaven and his hair is close-cropped. in previous releases he had been seen in at least one of them as wearing a beard. let me very quickly add in one
for the better part of a decade necessity endured tour after tour in distant and difficult places. they have protected us from danger. they have given others the opportunity to earn a better and more secure life. they are the courageous men and women serving in afghanistan even as we speak. they keep close focus on their mission to break the back of the taliban insurgency. they possess the steely resolve to see their mission through. they are made of the same strong stuff as the troops in this room and i m confident they will continue to succeed in the missions we give them in afghanistan and beyond. our brave servicemen and women and their families have done everything they have been asked to do. they have been everything that