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Secretary under president bush, he personally reviewed the file of the taliban leaders. >> these are the enemies' senior field commanders and irsuspicion ran leaders -- inspirational leaders to reinspire taliban and al-qaeda. >> while prisoner swap may be seen as confidence building measure, they wonder what the taliban can offer in return. >> i understand what the administration's objective might be. i only hope that if we were to make such a major concession, removing the people from american to afghan control we also get a major concession in return. >> reporter: by identifying the taliban ...

Secretary under president bush, he personally reviewed the file of the taliban leaders. >> these are the enemies' senior field commanders and irsuspicion ran leaders -- inspirational leaders to reinspire taliban and al-qaeda. >> while prisoner swap may be seen as confidence building measure, they wonder what the taliban can offer in return. >> i understand what the administration's objective might be. i only hope that if we were to make such a major concession, removing the people from american to afghan control we also get a major concession in return. >> reporter: by identifying the taliban ...

>> deputy assistant defense secretary under president bush, he personally reviewed the file of the taliban leaders. >> these are the enemies' senior field commanders and irsuspicion ran leaders -- inspirational leaders to reinspire taliban and al-qaeda. >> while prisoner swap may be seen as confidence building measure, they wonder what the taliban can offer in return. >> i understand what the administration's objective might be. i only hope that if we were to make such a major concession, removing the people from american to afghan control we also get a major concession in return. >> reporter:...

Public. take a listen to ben rhodes, the national security advisor who was in cannes with the president today. >> if there is any specific timeline beyond what the president has already laid out which is we are going to bring 10,000 troops out of afghanistan by the end of this year. we're going to bring 33,000, the full west point surge in afghanistan by the end of next summer. >> reporter: the bottom line is that these recommendations are not coming from the pentagon. they are not coming from field commanders. they are not working their way through the normal system going through centcom and ...

major blackberry service outage. we're finding out more about what went wrong. good morning to you. it is thursday, october 13th. this is your am "wake-up call." the treasury department has slapped new sanctions against iran's force. the government describes a money trail starting within that iranian organization. but former homeland security secretary tom ridge says think bigger. >> it's a monstrous ly buffet. they are working unilaterally independent of the ayatollah himself. clearly that, is a force under the control of the hierarchy of the mullahs within iran. so i just can't ima...