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The lack of any real safety for u.s. troops there. can you just explain? i mean, was there actual screening being done by the taliban? because i cant imagine that folks who are walking around with, you know, pieces of pipe to beat people with are necessarily great at screening people. >> anderson, it wasnt really a screening or any kind of security screening by the taliban. what we really were watching was crowd control, and a deeply crass, violent kind of crowd control where they were beating p...

Because we told everybody when were leaving so they know they only have a few days left to get through those barriers. that is what led to the target being so dreadfully high in terms of how many troopers we lost. i hate to say it the wrong way, but wed normally lose two or three during one of these ied attacks, but thats when youre doing crowd control as well as security. >> and what is -- the pentagon now says that theyre taking maximum force protection measures. obviously theres stuff that pr...

People needed to talk to her. it was emotionally deeply grueling for those soldiers. >> i have been watching that video and u.s. marines and troopers from the 82nd airborne and others shoulder to do that, or is that what it takes? >> no, listen, youve been in baghdad. you know how the checkpoints are. these had to be setup differently. rather than having two or three men at the outer perimeter because of the crowd control responsibilities, you saw a lot of marines on the ground that frankly were...

Sleep a night because so many people needed to talk to her. it wasnt just physically dangerous. it was emotionally deeply grueling for those soldiers. >> in watching that video and u.s. marines and troopers from the 82nd airborne and others shoulder to shoulder trying to figure out whos who and trying to get through. is there a better way to do that? or is that what it takes? >> no, listen, youve been in baghdad. youve been in war zones before, anderson. you know how the checkpoints are set up. ...

Towards the gate. because we told everybody when were leaving so they know they only have a few days left to get through those barriers. and because we had so many people out there doing both security and crowd control, that is what led to the target being so dreadfully high in terms of how many troopers we lost. i hate to say it the wrong way, but wed normally lose two or three during one of these ied attacks, but thats not when youre doing crowd control as well as security. >> and what is -- t...

Engel in doha, qatar. nbc correspondent courtney kube and nbc correspondent peter alexander. what is the security situation on the ground? >> so the security situation has improved. it has improved for the people on the base, the taliban have pushed out their perimeter. they are now set up with checkpoints and hundreds of yards from the entrance of the airport. the way theyre doing it however is quite brutal. there is a recent video that weve verified showing several taliban fighters whipping pe...

Video, this package that we are doing does contain some pretty upsetting content. >> reporter: crowd control, taliban style. a day after 13 american service members, two british citizens, and at least 170 afghans were killed by a suicide bomber, afghans are still trying to get to kabuls airport and to freedom. just over the blast walls, the mission continues. nearly 13,000 people flown out in 24 hours. the wounded american service members have been transferred to regional medical center in germa...

In general. but we have yet to see things go smoothly, for example, ive had fighters tell me that i still cannot do my job. i still cannot take some pictures and checkpoints, just because, you know, it doesnt matter if i have this media accreditation. and some fighters recognize it, some dont. its a mixed bag. its not a complete standard basically. and, when it comes to my experience of being beat up, and assaulted by taliban fighters, and i think a lot of that has to do with the fact that, tali...

>> reporter: crowd control, taliban style. a day after 13 american service members, two british citizens and at least 170 afghans were killed by a suicide bomber afghans are still trying to get to kabuls airport and to freedom. just over the blast walls, the mission continues. nearly 13,000 people flown out in 24 hours. the wounded american service members have been transferred to the regional medical center in germany. now, there is a second mission. hunting down the isis-k terrorists behind th...

From out in the provinces. and the fact that theyre not actually made for -- theyre not trained for crowd control. they are not trained to deal with -- a lot of them have never dealt with journalists. a lot of them have never dealt with media. so thats, i think, one of the factors that played into it, too. >> marcus. foreign correspondent, photojournalist for "the los angeles times." live in kabul tonight. while we have been talking to you, sir, we have been able to show some of your recent work...