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The ground at greater risk. as we ve already seen this morning one afghan security officer killed outside the airport in kabul amid a fire fight. we were on the ground in afghanistan yesterday as the qatar worked to evacuate civilian. the qatar government is trying to get vulnerable afghans out of harm s way. headed from doha to kabul on the c-17 to pick up 112 civilians. we just arrived in kabul, afghanistan just a week ago the taliban took control of this city and there are thousands of americans and afghans waiting to flee. the airport is surrounded by the taliban making it extremely difficult for people to get here and get to safety. it comes as new intelligence indicates groups like isis may try to attack americans as they make their way to the airport. the scenes of chaos we saw play out over the past seven days ....
Of taliban violence despite claims from the group that it had changed since its violent rule of the late 1990s. protesters waved the afghan flag in kabul and other parts of the country against the taliban takeover. the a.p. reports a 24-hour curfew in the province. this comes after three people were reportedly killed on wednesday after replacing a taliban flag with a flag of the former government. monica, president biden is going to speak later on the evacuation efforts in afghanistan. what do you expect to hear? well, first, alicia, i expect he s going to provide a technical update. this is something the white house has been doing for a couple of days. remember in the initial unfolding chaos we saw as the evacuation started, there were so many questions about how this was working and what the numbers were. we knew a little bit about the capacity they said they wanted ....
There is also a separate battalion that is at the ready inside mosul that is meant to rise up once the forces begin to enter the city. this particular battalion s role is to try to ensure the kind of chaos we saw erupt in baghdad in 2003 after the u.s.-led invasion doesn t happen in mosul itself. again, this has been a much anticipated operation. one that is very significant when it comes to not just trying to rid iraq s territory of isis, but also more prod lybroadly sp when it comes to the battle of isis in and of itself. just finally being announced by iraq s prime minister as having just begun. again, we are really, at this moment, in its first initial minutes. arwa, there are still a million at least a million civilians inside mosul. to give our viewers a sense of the magnitude of how big this ....
United you can get the kind of chaos we saw. sometimes passengers have a matter of minutes to catch their flights. when flights are held that can cascade through the entire system. reporter: just hours later trading came to a halt at the new york stock exchange as a separate computer system failed. at the offices of the wall street journal, the home page stopped functioning, though that site is now back up. government officials quickly tried to reassure the public these were not malicious attacks. i have spoken to the ceo of united myself. it appears from what we know at this stage that the malfunctions at united and the stokes were not the result of any nefarious actor. there s no indication that malicious actors were involved in these technology issues. well after nearly four ....
resistance from pro-gadhafi forces. correspondents are reporting on the ground. cnn s sarah sidner is hunkered down in green square and matthew chance is in the city s hotel, the same hotel where senior libyan officials just fled moments ago. our first correspondent in tripoli, nic robertson, he is in our washington bureau and national security contributor, fran townsend is in new york and zain verjee is following international reaction from left knee done. dan lothian is with the president on martha s vineyard and barbara starr has the military perspective from the pentagon. all right. let s get to tripoli where all the action is right now. we ve been telling you about the fighting in and around green square. it s been a big symbol for the gadhafi regime. in fact, until recently, they ve been using it for big pro-government demonstrations. cnn s sarah sidner has been watching the rebel invasion and pretty heavy fighting as well. she fired this report before the rebel ....