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About that bbc reporting and ukraine s counter offensive. generaljohn allen, thank you forjoining us. the bbc is reporting today that a dozen former ukrainian captives say they were subjected to torture while in custody at detention facilities in south western russia, apparent violations of international humanitarian law. how should foreign governments respond? first, no one is surprised at this. virtually every dimension of the russian invasion of ukraine has been accompanied by some violation of international military law. attacks on infrastructure, attacks on civilians and here again we see the systematic, frankly, in the systematic, frankly, the systematic torture of ukrainian prisoners. and the way to do this, the way to respond at an international level is to condemn it universally and unanimously and also, as necessary, to continue ....
Earlier, i spoke with john allen, a retired us marine corps four star general and former commander of the nato international security assistance force, about the situation in ukraine. generaljohn allen, thank you forjoining us. the bbc is reporting today that a dozen former ukrainian captives say they were subjected to torture while in custody at detention facilities in south western russia, apparent violations of international humanitarian law. how should foreign governments respond? first, no one is surprised at this. virtually every dimension of the russian invasion of ukraine has been accompanied by some violation of international military law. attacks on infrastructure, attacks on civilians and here again we see the systematic, frankly, ....
Were ringing was when donald trump allowed or gave permission for thousands of taliban prisoners to be released, and then made the commitment to return troops home before the deal had been confirmed. right. that was the beginning of the end. do you think that the government, the borisjohnson government, has the bandwidth to understand that there now, in the very near future, could be a very real surge in the terror threat coming from afghanistan? we know that thousands of prisoners have been newly released from bagram, some of them very, as we understand it, very dangerous militants. we ve got generaljohn allen, former commander of us forces in afghanistan, saying that al-qaeda could be operating openly from the hindu kush region with us forces gone. as you said at the beginning of this interview, you know all too well personally the dangers that come with islamist terrorism because you lost your brother in the bali bomb attack. do you think the british government has any clear idea ....
Ofjust how dangerous the situation could become now? i think we re slowly waking up to that, and you re absolutely right, i totally agree with generaljohn allen, a close friend of mine. i worked with him in afghanistan. and what i believe will happen now, very sadly, is the terrorists will take full advantage of the vacuum that will be left to return to afghanistan to plot another attack on the scale of 9/11 in order to bookend, if you like, our time in the country, to make the very blunt point as to how futile the last two decades have been. and. you really believe that? what you believe will happen next is that the al-qaeda and other militant islamist groups will seek to launch new attacks on the west, as you say, to sort of bookend the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago? ....