BBCNEWS BBC News August 31, 2021 19:15:00
Long period in which certainly is a terrorist group and as insurgency they received a lot of attention but perhaps a lot less on what it was doing politically and the level of support it did have in certain parts of the country. so as we look back, i don't think you can take the assumptions that were made three or four months ago and put the blame on misreading then. because the eroding stalemate, the changes on the ground taking place were occurring across very many years, and some of these conclusions perhaps should have been drawn earlier. if conclusions perhaps should have been drawn earli...