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Learn more. Thank you sir. Thank you mr. Miller. I like to echo mr. Millers, that everyone is concerned about tha investigation and how it ended. Those who had no involvement in us the and a mistake. T ha general you and i headache conversation about the report,1, we first got the 9 11 commissiot report delivered to congress it had chapter 12 that detailed what we needed to do in future e e shouldnt do. It specifically set our fight was not against al qaeda and a summa been bottomed solely, if if we viewed our fight is that wextre would lose. It was islamic extremism andter worldwide terrorism. When we look at iraq, it is clear that we have not heraldede chapter 12. We have seen isis take hold, ano now threaten our homeland. You have made recommendations that we continue to hold troops inaf. Afghanistan, you both isil there. Can you tell if you did withtr john troops down to a level of ef00 the effect on the safety of our troops and the ability ofcon our effectiveness for counterterror
And know that they were working with who they identified as their afghan brothers so just im regret that so much hey, bad i can remember the first time i went to afghanistan with sheila jacksonlee. She pointed out that bad news has no feet and excuse me. What is it . Good news has no feet and bad news has wings. And wow. But the bad the good thing is that extraordinary progress has been made and i agree with the chairman, too, that success in afghanistan is to deny terrorists safe havens which protects American Families and that we cannot forget it was september 11th, 2001, the attacks on our country, that were originated, planned and culminated from caves in afghanistan so im just very appreciative of your efforts and the largely bipartisan support we have here w. That in mind, with this special operations reliance of support from conventional forces, if conventional forces are reduced, as has been called for, how can special operations fill in this gap . Sir, today, we continue to ta
It would limit our ability to train, advise and assist, yes, sir. Okay. Mr. Smith. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Can you talk to us in general about the relationship between afghanistan and pakistan and the various groups that are involved there . I guess related to that is the conversation about reconciliation talks between the taliban and afghan government. First of all, what hopes do you have for that . Second of all, no matter what comes out of that, there will always be groups on both sides of the border that arent part of it. Whats sort of your tell us a little bit about the groups who might be involved, who might be reconcilable who we might still have to fight and how the relationship between afghanistan and pakistan factors into those negotiations . Thanks for the question. As you know, very conflicted between pakistan and afghanistan. I do try to maintain ties with pakistan. I talk to general sharif probably once a week. I try to get to pakistan once a month. We really work hard t
While diplomats argue about who can attend peace talks in geneva. Europeans decide to strengthen border controls. And they blame greece for not keeping out refugees. Tight security marked the five Year Anniversary that toppled Hosne Mubarak in egypt and promised change. Good evening im antonio mora, this is Al Jazeera America, International News hour. We begin tonight with new fears over the spread of a virus throirchgviruslinked to severe. The zika virus is believed to be spreading to all countries except chile and canada. Health inspectors are now making a special effort to quarantine mosquitos that carry the disease. Researchers say they will try to develop a virus in record time. More from john holman where authorities are also taking action against zika. The first taste of the zika virus now spread to 21 other countries says the World Health Organization. Zika is spread by mosquitos and not life threatening for adults but causes microcephaly in which newborn infants heads dont dev