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It s not just joe biden. we also are barack obama talking about how great the afghan security forces were and how they were in charge and leading the operations and priority that president george h.w. bush make similar claims. the bay of pigs didn t take 20 years. the latest push by the taliban is about 18 months old. they started going to local leaders, going to local war lords and paying them off well before this final push. the fact we would be completely by surprise is a shock and i think part of what joe biden has to explain. i m sure he is coming out and be unapologetic about the policy at large and he has to explain the execution over the last week and why he said what he said. is this a one-off? forgive the term. but is this about joe biden and afghanistan, or the united states and afghanistan, or is this a moment, a lot of bad actors in the world see a american president on his heels a little bit? should the eyes be looking around the world for some sort of domino effect? ....
Have capability. i am not a military expert but people who have been looking at the footage of what s gone on in kunduz have noticed that the taliban had equipment that is relatively new, they clearly do have continued supply, they continue to be paid and so on. so they really have capability. and the fact that this took place in northern afghanistan i mean, normally the taliban are most active in the south or the east of the country. this really is a big, a big shock. what it also reveals is that while the government continues to have the ability to retake towns, you know, this kind of thing is likely to go on for a very long time, that the taliban probably in conjunction with local war lords, possibly criminal elements will have the capacity to take districts and occasionally capital. ....
West that said, wanted dead or alive. reporter: bin laden s base of operations is afghanistan. here, the fundamentalist taliban regime provides sanctuary. so, immediately after september 11th, small, u.s. commando teams began to work with local war lords who opposed the taliban to get bin laden. cia officer gary burnson is on the ground, helping to lead the mission. keep pushing people forward. keep taking ground and keep working with northern alliance or other tribal units to seizer to toir and to kill the enemy. reporter: concern that a large deployment of american troops would provoke a backlash, the americans are, in effect, ....
failure, high. would rather die than be captured. at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. reporter: friday, april 29th, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. the president, after a long night s sleep, he basically came in and immediately told his staff you have the green light. let s go. reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. military s best-kept secret is underway. the troops were ready and in place. the equipment was ready to go. the plan had been practiced again and again and again. reporter: america s most-wanted man may finally be in reach, osama bin laden. the architect of 9/11 had eluded the world s most powerful nation for more than a decade. the trail was quite cold. reporter: former cia director michael hayden recalls the early misfires. most of what we had looked many more like elvis sightings rather than substantive intelligence. u.s. intelligence zeroed in on t ....