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The sort of attacks they've been carrying out in kabul for the best part of five years. in the first four months of this year alone, victor, there were 77 attacks by isis khorason in kabul. there was a staged major suicide attacks in jalalabad in the south and the east. so this is a group that is well-embedded in afghanistan, and neither the previous government nor the taliban will find it easy to get rid of isis-k. i think what it shows you is that this is a brutal we minder that afghanistan is still very fehr tile territory for international terrorism. remember the prison escapes over the la...

Two, we'll learn more about what happened here. i'm sure we'll be able to share that with you. right now, our focus is actually going forward and ensuring that another attack of this nature does not occur because as you know, typically the pattern is multiple attacks. we want to be prepared and ready to defend against that. >> courtney? >> will you take on -- this is courtney kube. can you tell us more about the extremely real additional threats from isis? is there concern about more suicide attacks? and also about some of the steps you may be taking to mitigate future attacks? i mean would it...

Tried to leave very early on when there were still commercial flights out. do you have the sense of how many afghans who have, you know, sivs or other reasons to leave are actually still there? do we know? >> it has to be in the thousands. i mean i personally know of four sivs who can't get out. they've got all of their paperwork. they tried the gate several times around the airport, and now they're afraid, especially -- that was before the suicide attacks. there have been various different -- a lot of disinformation floating around where people will be told, hey, siv applicants, go to this ho...

Seeing right now is a power struggle, really, between the taliban and isis—k. i think that right now it has turned into a battle for control over the airport and i fully agree that it really is not in the taliban's best interest to allow that to happen so my hope is that perhaps these evacuation efforts can go forward. evacuation efforts can go forward-— forward. lives in these pictures _ forward. lives in these pictures of _ forward. lives in these pictures of hundreds . forward. lives in these| pictures of hundreds of thousands of people outside the airport. what could isis—k be planni...

Looking at suicide attacks. they tend to favour things like truck bombs, buzz bombs, parking outside of the vicinity of the airport. because we have to remember the american military is inside the airport, not outside the airport. so my best guess anything is going to happen around the perimeter of the airport and they also have access to mortars and things like that so they can lop that over the walls and fences. so there are several different ways that they can perpetrate an attack. ways that they can perpetrate an attack-— ways that they can perpetrate an attack. ,,, . ~ ., , an attack. s...