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Two short sound bites that were played on Saturday Morning -- when the first one was on, I thought it might be a preview of the GPS interview, but at the end of the second one, he says "Anderson," so it looks like these were outtakes from the interview used for the "Inside the Battle Zone" special.
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MICHAEL
WARE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The U.S.
military is considering an option. The Afghan
government has already picked it up and has a pilot
program under way. It draws on the lessons from Iraq.
The American troops on the ground are not going to
get the tribes. What's going to get the tribes is a
bigger political solution with the Afghan government.
So now what we're seeing is the beginning of a
program to recruit tribal militias that will fight
the Taliban. U.S.-backed militias of the kind that we
saw defeat al Qaeda in Iraq.
Once America took the insurgents, put 103,000 of them
on the U.S. government payroll, the war stopped
almost overnight. And these men knew where al Qaeda
slept and just walked in and whacked them. That's
what they are now looking at doing here.
If the tribal forces, if the warlords, the militias
say, "No Taliban in my area," there will be no
Taliban in that area. And that's what America is now
considering to fill this enormous vacuum, this
enormous gap between what's needed and what America
has here in country.