Another one that was about two football fields long serving as a hotel for evacuees, including the americans before they make their way to the airport. you can see the footage shot by richard engel and his team days ago. there the abbey gate and the drainage canal, and the four blast walls that you can see there. this is what the area looked like before the suicide bombings. the information coming in is very fluid, and this is not unusual with the circumstances is like this. but the taliban say that 13 people are dead including children, and dozens more left badly injured and maimed and those numbers could blow. the pentagon is calling it a complex attack, and officials are calling it a strong indication here that it is caused by isis-k which is a break off of the isis group, and
The concern of a suicide bomber or the suicide attack or the vehicle-borne improvided sight, and carry out to see the images today. what we are hearing from the pentagon, several u.s. military were among the wounded and killed and reports of dozen afghan civilians wound and killed here, geoff. courtney, talking about the security concerns, this is an existing ever-present ongoing threat. this threat did not end with today s attack, correct? correct. there s an isis presence in afghanistan. that is not a surprise. there is even a particularly isis group right there in kabul that has presented a threat for several years now, but just because this attack was carried out, it does not mean that the security situation in the
Afghanistan. general barry mccaffery and ben rhodes is still with us, and joining us is ben douglas, chairman of southeast asia and fellow at the middle east institute, and doug, you are responsible for the afghanistan assessments prepared for president trump and in private service, you were preparing for candidate biden s working group. what did you tell the biden s team about this isis affiliate? well, the state of the khorasan province as they are known. over the past five year, six of the leaders, and six of the leaders have been killed or captured or recapture and what i have seen in the press, the taliban when they released the prisoners from bagram air force base, they have killed the last that was caught. so despite the losses of the mid-level operatives, they have managed to be resilient particularly when it comes to
Environment, difficult to control. but clearly, a lapse to say the least from the taliban, and then you ve got the so-called islamic state group. they are universally hated even by the islamists in afghanistan. the taliban have been dedicated to trying to completely exterminate them. particularly because isis came into afghanistan and started to attack taliban people and produce those gross murder videos they were famous for in syria. murdering taliban. and equally al qaeda, no great fans of isis either. there has been some speculation that it s conceivable that an isis group might have been used as a cutout for an errant element of the taliban to conduct this sort of an operation. that s not beyond the realms of possibility. the reality in afghanistan and the reality of the taliban is that it is hydroheaded. there are many different elements and many different elements of it with very different ideologies.
Contributing factor to isis-k pushing back to the taliban rule? i am skeptical to the isis 2.0 is real. it is part of the narrative and effective to the white house of the biden white house, and the trump white house before it. i know that we are representatives of the taliban has not had representatives that reflect that. one of the deputies and the chief of the haqqani taliban network, and neither is the other deputy who is carrying the title of chief military commission, and the other leader who is the poster child for engagement was known for shooting women in football stadiums. he is out of touch, and in jail in pakistan for eight years.
Missed, we were in there. haifa basically afterwards said, you missed, we were in there. how many of these fighters missed, we were in there. how many of these fighters are missed, we were in there. how many of these fighters are the missed, we were in there. how many of these fighters are the remnants - of these fighters are the remnants of these fighters are the remnants of these fighters are the remnants of the isis group that took over northern iraq? hat of the isis group that took over northern iraq? of the isis group that took over northern iraq? not really, they ve not a few northern iraq? not really, they ve got a few members northern iraq? not really, they ve got a few members from - northern iraq? not really, they ve got a few members from them - northern iraq? not really, they ve| got a few members from them but they primarily draw from the taliban and pakistan fighters, and some defectors from the afghan taliban who felt that at the time, the taliban wasn t extreme enough and was going soft, they weren t making much headway on the battlefield. so they came to being injanuary 2015 when isis was pretty much at the apex of its success. since then, it s self declared caliphate has been dismantled, destroyed, they ve been dismantled, destroyed, they ve been defeated. so they are a lot weaker now, but they are still dangerous, and they ve carried out some of the bloodiest attacks across the country. they have clashed in firefights not only with the afghan security forces under the previous government, not only with the us,
Dozens of flights, thousands now, tens of thousands of people evacuated from the country. we believe today will be an efficient and effective day and tomorrow and the next day as well. he is taking this day-by-day and make his determinations as we go. the french don t think that s a possibility. ahead of the meeting with the president and other leaders the french foreign minister said we re concerned. more time is needed to complete the current operations. the biden administration is claiming two things that appear to be in conflict right now both that there is a serious threat posed by isis to the kabul airport and that nobody sheltering in place away from isis is stranded. but ultimately they are relying on the taliban for permission to do anything. the strongest military in the world is being run by a bunch of thugs right now. the tail wagging the dog and the world is laughing and our
With special immigration visas in order to enter the united states. but officially the gates still are pretty much closed leaving we estimate here about 9,000 people in the immediate perimeter of the airport. many, many thousands of others, including an unknown number of perhaps thousands of american citizens deeper in the city. and indeed spread around the rest of the country. some of whom perhaps even the majority of whom would love to get out. the problem is that there is what the national security adviser in washington has described as a persistent and real threat coming from the so-called islamic threat known here as isis-k, and that is a threat, generic threat, clearly a threat against the airport but also against the civilians wanting to get into it because the isis group is bitter enemies with the taliban who have been trying to push the security cordoned around the airport back, they have been trying to get a grip on it in their own weird and often potentially violent way.
He doubts the evacuation will finish by the 31st and reiterated concerns we ve been hearing from the administration that there is a considerable threat to the operation underway at the airport coming from isis and al qaeda. administration announced within the last 24 hours 21,000 people have been evacuated. that number was not broken down by nationality. the state department and pentagon haven t given clear numbers on how many americans have been evacuated. a leaked state department cable reported by politico estimates the number is 4300 americans. not even half of the 11,000 the white house estimated were in the country last week. yesterday white house press secretary jen psaki rejected the characterization that the americans are stranded. most of the criticism is not of leaving afghanistan. it is the way that he has ordered it to happen by pulling the troops before getting these americans who are now stranded. does he have i think it s irresponsible
are americans going to feel they re more safe from terror than they were one year ago or 20 years ago? bill: earlier today before a lot of you got up this morning the germans are warning about the islamic state moving closer to the airport. you wonder how much control the taliban has over isis group or not? . dana: follow the enemies. isis and the taliban are not friendly. at least at this point. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell standing by. we have team fox coverage. trey yingst has information on the evacuation and jackie heinrich at the white house. the president is under pressure from allies to push back the august 31 deadline, a week from today. taliban has called that date a red line saying that if, quote, the occupation is extended, it will provoke a reaction. but the chairman of the house intel committee said after that classified briefing yesterday