Kerry comment on Taliban commander in Pakistan, wher ehe is meeting with Zadari

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Here is the CBS story:

Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, agreed with that assessment when interviewed via satellite from Islamabad on Tuesday for "The Early Show".

"It's a big transition that is taking place," Kerry told "Early Show" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez. "For some period of time, there were doubts in Pakistan about whether this was a fight that involved them."

Now, Kerry said, "the level of violence that has been brought by these insurgents, has convinced the government of Pakistan and the Pakistani people that their country is threatened and that this fight is their fight."

Baradar heads the Taliban's military council and was elevated in the body after the 2006 death of military chief Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Usmani. Baradar is known to coordinate the movement's military operations throughout the south and southwest of Afghanistan. His area of direct responsibility stretches over Kandahar, Helmand, Nimroz, Zabul and Uruzgan provinces.