Page 7 - Isisk Attack News Today

Gate to the kabul airport. just hours earlier the u.s. and several other western governments had warned of an imminent islamic state attack and indeed urged their citizens to stay away from the airport for good reason. a group called isis-k has claimed responsibility for the bombings. late this afternoon at the white house during emotional remarks that the included a moment of silence to remember the victims, the president vowed retribution. >> for those who carried out this attack as well as an...

Rescue afghans who were left behind. i think the reason for that, trace, we will not do anything. we are going to leave on the 31st and leave thousands of americans behind and we are not coming back. spilling the attack at the airport, fred, they knew about this threat for a week in the present keeps talking about over the horizon and intel, surveillance, drones, their equipment and yet the attack happens and we couldnt stop the attack. what do you make of not having eyes, i really, eyes on the ...

Started again, another civil war in afghanistan? i dont understand taliban and isis, are they friend or enemy? >> i think that there is clear historic evidence that they have been enemies in the past. i dont have any assessment beyond what we have said over the last few days about the fact that we have no information to suggest that the taliban had knowledge of or engagement in the isis-k attack. all i have available is or to speak to is the historic. hello, okay. what we have and we have not do...

Others are still fighting to get out? >> thanks for having me, michael. its been really rough. its been a rough 48 hours actually. we were anticipating attacks, and that created challenges getting people safely to the airport. then of course when the attacks went off, we lost a lot of lives today. a lot of afghans lost their lives, marines, and service members lost their lives and were wounded. that pretty much shut down the airport, and then there was no movement. and fortunately for, you know,...

Thats something that ive been talking to defense officials, of course, ever since this happened because one of the big questions immediately after an attack like this is the u.s. going to respond? i think that our viewers may be surprised to find out that ever since the u.s. military began the withdrawal, which really began in april or may of this year, with the military withdrawal comes a withdrawal of a lot of intelligence assets. so the u.s. military has much less of a clear picture of where ...

And they have a history of fighting one another. but every day, we have troops on the ground. these troops and innocent civilians at the airport face the risk of attack from isis-k from a distance even though were moving back the perimeter significantly. >> we are sustaining the highest level of vigilance for an attack against the airport by isis-k or another terrorist group. >> theyre real and significant challenges that we also have to take into consideration. the longer we stay, starting with...

Photojournalist working for "the los angeles times." he is joining us live now from kabul. mr. yam plans to remain there. he was at the site of the bombing outside the gates of the kabul airport. thanks for taking such pains to be with us tonight. i know this is not an easy time difference or, indeed, an easy time. >> thank you for having me on the show. >> so, u.s. officials up to and including president biden had repeatedly warned that crowds at the airport might be targeted by an isis terrori...

Community has been receiving a steady stream of intelligence about potential terrorist attacks by isis-k over the last week. but that intelligence was not enough, unfortunately, to thwart this attack at the airport. the airport right now according to officials that we have been speaking to its just completely indefensible. and that is why president biden has made it such a top priority to get troops out -- um -- by tuesday. because he says that the threat that they are, you know, dealing with he...

Overall they are caught on video committing violence against law enforcement and believe in these delusional conspiracy theories about a stolen election, and in many cases have expressed their desire to continue fighting this battle. so for someone from so close in trumps orbit who literally pushed around a golden idol of trump at cpac saying we want to get these cops who are in jail is such a mind-blowing scenario when you look back at what the trump campaign was all about, which was the idea o...

The u.s. military. spelling you know, i thought the very same thing. when you hear some of the general and the secretary saying we need to figure out exactly who this is. we need some time to be able to go after this. like a detective, right, time to put this together. it means delay, delaying the game. my question to you is "how long can you delayed this before having political ramifications to say, and nobodys done anything about the isis k attack on u.s. service members back in late august?" ...