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with peace. and pursuing a more hopeful fu as equal partners. to borrow words from this agreement, we are committed to seeking a future of justice, peace, security, and opportunity. and i m confident that although our challenges are not yet behind us that the future before us is bright. ifill: later the president spoke to u.s. troops he plans to address the american people from afghanistan at 7:30 eastern time tonight. for more on all this, we turn to patrick quinn, kabul bureau chief for the associated press joining us now by telephone. patrick, when did you learn that a presidential visit was imminent? well, we only found out just shortly before he arrived. there were rumors he was coming. but it was a complete surprise, i think, to almost everybody in afghanistan that barack obama decided to come here on the anniversary of osama bin laden s death to sign this agreement. ifill: tell us what you can about this agreement. how significant is it? well, the deal is not
with peace. and pursuing a more hopeful fu as equal partners. to borrow words from this agreement, we are committed to seeking a future of justice, peace, security, and opportunity. and i m confident that although our challenges are not yet behind us that the future before us is bright. ifill: later the president spoke to u.s. troops he plans to address the american people from afghanistan at 7:30 eastern time tonight. for more on all this, we turn to patrick quinn, kabul bureau chief for the associated press joining us now by telephone. patrick, when did you learn that a presidential visit was imminent? well, we only found out just shortly before he arrived. there were rumors he was coming. but it was a complete surprise, i think, to almost everybody in afghanistan that barack obama decided to come here on the anniversary of osama bin laden s death to sign this agreement. ifill: tell us what you can about this agreement. how significant is it? well, the deal is not
economic advantages to things stay in the way they are for drug companies or certain aspects of the medical community that make money off of the way things are. do you see that slowing down progress? yes. that is part of the reason why our medical community is so sporadic and difficult to change. what you are alluding to on the life science industry they want to have skills like lipitor used by tens of millions of people. that is the ultimate blockbuster suggestion that we won t seen many of the 0 drugs because the opportunity now is to have more highly effective new drugs or devices or diagnostic tests for the right people so i think there s a shift in the life sciences industry but the medical community is resistant to change and that includes the life science industry. the model that worked for so long was the charm. that is a challenge to a great degree and it is true that there s a struggle at this point as you say to move into an individual medicine era. we could do t
a variety of states and nonstate actors continue to view international terrorism as a legitimate policy tool which we consider reprehensible. please. [ inaudible ]. we have offered our assistance. fr frankly, i don t know where we are in terms of the indian government taking advantage of that, but we have offered assistance. do you have the link to the delhi bomb blast? do you have any information? again, as i said yesterday and as i just repeated here, we are not going to prejudge this. we re going to await the investigation. however, we do note that it comes in a context of a whole series of these kind of things. the indian investigation i think the question was about, yeah. nicole, did you have something? no? okay. i thought your hand was going up. i did. i heard you thinking. i heard the wheels grinding. does this department agree with assertions and accusations made by israeli leaders that iranian operatives are behind this attack in delhi, the attempted atta