Afghan President Hamid Karzai is threatening to send Afghan troops into Pakistan to fight members of the Taliban. Over the past two years, the US has spent more than $3 billion training and equipping the Afghan army.

Hamid Karzai: “The answer to this is that this means that Afghanistan has the right of self-defense. When they cross the territory from Pakistan to come and kill Afghans and to kill coalition troops, it exactly gives us the right to go back and do the same.”

Hamid Karzai’s comment came two days after more than 1,100 Afghan prisoners escaped when Taliban fighters attacked a prison in the southern city of Kandahar. Nearly 400 of the escaped prisoners were members of the Taliban. The Taliban reportedly used suicide bombs and a bomb-laden water tanker to blast open the prison.

Earlier today, President Bush was questioned about Karzai’s threat:

President Bush: “It is in no one’s interest that extremists have a safe haven from which to operate. And obviously, it’s a testy situation there. And if I’m the president of a country and people are coming from one country to another, allegedly coming from one country to another to kill innocent civilians on my side, I’d be concerned about it.”