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Fighters swept into kabul. you decided to head back from safety in the united states. why did you do that? well, my country faced a sudden, unexpected, deep uncertainty. there were fears, as we saw at kabul airport, people even hanging to the planes to just escape. and ijust couldn t bear to see that, i needed to return. first of all, be with our people, calm them down, but secondly, wanted to engage with the taliban. they needed to assure the people that they should not be feared, the future should not look as bleak as people think, and that the taliban, no doubt, had taken over kabul ....
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You decided to head back from safety in the united states. why did you do that? well, my country faced a sudden, unexpected, deep uncertainty. there were fears, as we saw at kabul airport, people even hanging to the planes to just escape. and ijust couldn t bear to see that, i needed to return. first of all, be with our people, calm them down, but secondly, wanted to engage with the taliban. they needed to assure the people that they should not be feared, the future should not look as bleak as people think, and that the taliban, no doubt, had taken over kabul ....
Arthel: afghanistan evacuations are in the final phase as tuesday s deadline approaches. so far, more than 100,000 afghans and more than 5,000 american citizens have been air-lifted out of kabul in the past two weeks, 20,000 of them are being temporarily housed at an air base in germany. greg palkot is there for us live with that part of the story. greg. reporter: hi, arthel. from everything we are hearing on the ground here, in kabul and elsewhere, this is the final days of the war for the united states in afghanistan. they could be some of the most dangerous. at kabul airport, the last evacuations are happening as desperate afghans continue, but the numbers are way down. that s because of new terror threats and that u.s. deadline ....
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