This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome my colleagues Bill Ro, Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

keeps the Long War Journal, and Ambassador Hasehane O'Connor, former Ambassador from Pakistan to the United States now a senior

fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Gentlemen, the Financial Times piece did us all the favor of providing

visuals, satellite visuals, of the explosion in sharp increase of mines throughout Afghanistan

said to be especially keen for the Taliban government in Kabul.

But I note that the mines are exploding,

especially along the Chinese border

and other parts of Afghanistan that used to be associated with

the Taliban in the hills and now al-Qaeda.

Bill, I start with you because the presumption I'm making one the Financial Times

doesn't say it is that all those training camps and safe havens that Al Qaeda

has in Afghanistan now established.

They look surprisingly like some of the maps here of the mines,

especially the mines for Neffwright,

which is a gemstone very dear to the Chinese and we can imagine that whoever minds it

would want to have a Chinese customer in mind.

To your knowledge, Bill, does Al Qaeda work with the People's Republic of China in some fashion?

Good evening, John.

You have to keep in mind that the Taliban and its allies, including Al Qaeda, have been exploiting these minds even before the Taliban

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