you will, rally points and the arrangement called for the taliban to go there as well, pick them up and get them passed the crowds at the airport and guide them towards the gates that were manned by american forces who would be watching for them and could get them through the gates and on to the airport grounds. officials that described this to us say they really do believe that it has a success in getting hundreds of americans out while they acknowledged many americans had problems with the taliban. there was also another chain of events we have learned about. u.s. special operations forces established their own secret gate, if you will, at the airport and they worked phone call centers talking to americans, guiding them, vectoring them into this arrangement saying where are you? walk here. walk there. literally guiding them step by step to get into the airport. at the end of the day, the u.s.