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His predecessor reached to remove all remaining u.s. forces from afghanistan by may first of this year. as part of that agreement, the previous administration pressed the afghan government to release 5,000 taliban prisoners including some top war commanders. by january of 2021, the taliban was in its strongest military position since 9/11. >> now, this testimony today was before a senate committee. blinken is the first senior biden administration official to testify on americas chaotic exit from...

Osama bin laden was killed in 2011, a decade ago. al qaedas capabilities were degraded significantly, including its ability to plan and conduct external operations. after 20 years, 2,641 american lives lost, 20,000 injuries, trillion dollars spent, it was time to end americas longest war. when president biden took office in january, he inherited an agreement that his predecessor had reached with the taliban to remove all remaining forces from afghanistan by may 1st of this year. as part of that ...

A decade _ osama bin laden was killed in 2011, a decade ago. al-qaeda is capabilities were degraded significantly including its ability to plan— significantly including its ability to plan and conduct external operations. after 20 years 2641 american — operations. after 20 years 2641 american lives lost, 20,000 injuries, _ american lives lost, 20,000 injuries, $2 trillion spent it was time _ injuries, $2 trillion spent it was time to— injuries, $2 trillion spent it was time to end americas...

Long ago. osama bin laden was killed a decade ago, and talibans ability to conduct operations was degraded. and after 2,031 lives loss, and over 20,000 injuries, and $20 trillion spent, it was time to end the war. when president biden took office he said he would remove all american forces from afghanistan. and as previous to that, the previous administration wanted some of the top war commanders reduced, and in the meantime, that reduced our war presence to 2,500 troop, and in return the taliba...

Governing agreement with the afghan government. did release 5,000 prisoners last year including taliban top war commanders. the president was walking in to that circumstance. he wanted to leave afghanistan. its a war he long felt we needed to depart from. he felt that was long overdue. that was a circumstance that he walked into and frankly theres a little selective memory loss from some of the people that served in the last administration about these circumstances. >> my question is why hold on...

Taliban work out a cooperative governing arrangement with the afghan government but it did authorize the release of 5,000 prisoners last year, including some of the taliban top war commanders. among those, who just took control of afghanistan. by time i came to office, the taliban was in its strongest military position since 2001. controlling or contesting nearly half of the country. the previous administration agreement said that if we stuck to the may 1st deadline, the taliban wouldnt attack a...

Governor arrangement with the afghan government. but it did authorise the release _ government. but it did authorise the release of— government. but it did authorise the release of 5000 prisoners last year, including _ release of 5000 prisoners last year, including some of the taliban ands top war— including some of the taliban ands top war commanders, among those that ust top war commanders, among those that just took— top war commanders, among those that just took control of afghanistan....

0 you dont have to take care of all of kabul to get a bigger perimeter. that should have been another option. thanks, general. we know youll be part of the continuing coverage as we move forward. the president said it was time to end this war. that is the story. stay tuned for continuing coverage here on fox of the end of the war in afghanistan. >> neil: all right. martha just said it. i was not going to extend this forever war. the president of the united states explaining why after 20 years we...

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Taliban commander and was in command 9/11 but hes a former defense minister. hes somebody they wanted back and we gave it to them. bill: abdul fahtik likely had connections to al qaeda. ront arent are these arent low-level operatives. these arent mercenary types. these are senior thought leaders and war commanders. these are the ones they requested and were after for a long time. john mccain told us mullah omar has his cabinet back. an amazing statement there. general martin dempsey from brussel...