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Targeting terrorism. the u.s. pushed the taliban out rather quickly. the leadership of the afghan taliban mostly fled into pack stn, in the area just over the border from afghanistan. >> in less than two months the taliban army had been destroyed and the taliban government replaced with transitional leaders eager to work with the west. >> at the time the basic policy was not to let the tallben come back. so it was a massive international effort to try to rebuild afghanistan, which had been been a very poor under developed country before it had 20 odd years of war. >> it had been through the so...

Citizens from the subcontinent pack stn, india and there are issues where it's been difficult for the islamic british citizens to become part of the greater society that some of the preev ysh attacks have been from disaffected young pakistanis but one doesn't want to jump too much to a conclusion other than to say that the british word named by the organization is the next big target. >> what do you feel is important for people to remember? >> i guess there are two big things. number one is that after 9/11, the western world decided to do all it could to prevent the kind of very complex, very ...

And that's not good. but i remembered, anderson, what president bush said to me. i was in the oval office the day that candidate obama said he would just flyover the borders in pakistan and if he had to would bomb pack stn. and i remember at the time pack stn was an ally for us, and i remember thinking oh, my gosh, you don't bomb an ally. he pointed to his oval desk, and he said don't worry whoever occupies that seat behind that desk, man or woman, will quickly find out that they're hands are tied, they'll end up doing almost exactly what i have done. >> that's interesting. >> that looks like ...

huge deal. set the scene. >> reporter: this is a big deal, wolf. a trip by the president of the united states to a war zone like afghanistan is extraordinary and this is only the third time that president obama has made this trip. it's been over a year. the last time he was there was in december 2010 and furthermore, at the presidential palace which is where he is right now for brief remarks with president hamid karzai and to sign the strategic partnership agreement with afghanistan to talk about the u.s. relationship with afghanistan beyond 2014. that's extraordinary. the last time ...

Afghanistan and distribution networks in 22 countries around the world. >> it became clear that he is kind of the god father. he was really the man in the shadows that was in charge. the other people that were more well known, they kind of work for him. >> the money that he was making, the profits were going into houses, vehicles. a significant portion of it was going to support terrorism. it was going to the haqqani network, the pack stn and taliban. there's untold numbers of people who died because of that heroin and the money being generated was going to people that wanted to destroy the un...