hotel and then they bus them in, the enemy is onto those, and different factions of the taliban who don't want afghans to leave might be frustrating efforts by their own political wing to try to make this go smoothly. this is going to be rocky, because tyou have this transitin period of the taliban trying to impose control on itself, as it imposes a new government on a just captured country. and you have the u.s. trying to pull out safely. >> nick, you covered afghanistan for a long time. nik nic robertson is with us. this should not have been a surprise to anyone. >> reporter: not in the at least. they developed these networks, affiliated to al qaeda. they developed essentially a