karzai yesterday just a short time before meeting with our new defense secretary chuck hagel accused the united states of america of working within the taliban on violent acts that are to keep american troops beyond the scheduled 2014 pullout. in other words, he s accusing us of killing our own people in effect so that we can stay in that country longer than next year. given the cost of the united states in both blood and money, of course, to prop karzai and his government up, the remark is sure to enflame an american public, including me, already saying enough. today two americans were dead following a green of blue attack. in other words, an afghan army, blue army, on us, attacking eastern province of wardak. man in an afghan security uniform opened fire on american and afghan forces. mike taibbi is covering this story for us in kabul tonight. put it all together, mike. you know what we re all focused on back here. our frustration and now alarm that our ally over there, hamid
address. saturday there was supposed to be a hand-over from u.s. control to afghan control of the prison at bagram air base. it meant authority, awen utonoa. all points that he would have liked to have made, but the deal fell apart at the last minute because karzai objected to one clause, what we were told by a highly placed diplomatic. that is that the u.s. would have final say on whether certain prisoners were high value or high-risk detainees and should say in prison. karzai wanted to have the right to use any prisoners he wanted for prisoner releases to mollify the taliban. he thought that was the way to go forward with the taliban. that was one thing that didn t happen. this is wardak where shooting happened today. we ll get to that. several weeks ago karzai ordered all special forces from the u.s. and coalition withdraw from wardak province because of unconfirmed allegations of their involvement in abusive attack against civilians in wardak
public including me already saying enough. today two americans were dead following a green of blue attack. in other words, an afghan army, blue army, on us, attacking eastern province of wardak. man in an afghan security uniform opened fire on american and afghan forces. mike taibbi is covering this story for us in kabul tonight. put it all together, mike. you know what we re all focused on back here. our frustration and now alarm that our ally over there, hamid karzai thinks we re engaging in some suicidal attempt to keep ourselves necessary over there. reporter: you know, you say your reaction was to say enough. i think a lot of people over here had a reaction of saying, he said what? it didn t make sense to a lot of people. it seemed like the general saying something ridiculous in catch 22 . look at things that did and didn t happen in karzai s statements in a national sunday
go forward with the taliban. that was one thing that didn t happen. this is wardak where shooting happened today. we ll get to that. several weeks ago karzai ordered all special forces from the u.s. and coalition withdraw from wardak province because of unconfirmed allegations of their involvement in abusive attack against civilians in wardak province. he put a two-week deadline on. the two-week deadline passed. the forces are still there. saturday morning, there were two terrible suicide bombings. one in kabul, itself, that hagel could actually hear from where he was a mile away. 18 people dead including 8 children. awful thing. all leading up to sunday morning, karzai gets on television, says what he says, and everybody says, what s he talking about? what s his goal here? i talked to one diplomat, a nato guy who ask we not use his name and knows karzai, spoken to him
appearance. there is fear a u.s. citizen may have been abducted in afghanistan. according to reuters afghan police say an american and comaddian were feared to be kidnapped in the wardak area near kabul. nate led forces aware of the report. u.s. and canadian diplomats say they re unaware of any missing citizens. 67 years later one of our nationest greatest heros from world war ii being recognized for his courageous service. montreal receiving nine medals including the bronze star and purple heart. he left high school in 1944 to gin the army and wounded during the 1945 invasion at okinawa. doctors taking care of me they said [inaudible] i have a shrapnel that came right in here and just a few more inches i might not have been