BBCNEWS Dateline London August 28, 2021 10:41:00
You know, the sources of power are quite localised. and so local tribal elders and chiefs will affiliate with the taliban. so it isn't a centralised authority, so they need to work with all these different power centres. whether they can keep a lid on all of that is a completely open question i think at this stage. particularly when, as we have seen, is—k were quite capable of carrying out that attack also, they have said, at the airport. isis k is only, there is reckoned only to be about 3000 fighters in is—k and it is quite localised, the support of isis within afghanistan. and, as you s...