A less problems could have been. put into a less extreme, i think, if there had actually been governance as part of the had actually been governance as part of the post saddam hussein occupation. of the post-saddam hussein occupation- of the post-saddam hussein occu ation. . , , occupation. there has been five ears of occupation. there has been five years of this occupation. there has been five years of this word occupation. there has been five years of this word you - occupation. there has been five years of this word you call - years of this word you call governance, it is a phenomenally complicated country and to try to create a democracy or something that will allow the minorities there to be protected, while others win. you have got decades, generations of work. the five years were bad and. civil war that began at exactly the time those horrible pictures came out of time those horrible pictures came out of abba grape and those people in abba out of abba grape and those
Organisations that would flourish there, particularly al-qaeda and isis. and i believe we have less capability now than we did before to monitor and suppress the development of those activities. so in that sense, yes, i believe we are less safe now than we were before. and what was your reaction then when the leader of al-anda, zawahiri, was found in downtown kabul? well, i was pleased, i was pleased that we got him. we ve been looking for him for a long time. we ve been out of afghanistan a year. that was one strike in a year. i ve said publicly and in testimony that counterterrorism operations from over the horizon in afghanistan would be very hard, but not impossible. i d say a strike in a year probably meets the criteria of very hard, but not impossible. there are a lot of other targets there and a lot of other organisations that aspire to do us ill. and we re going to have to continue to apply pressure, and that s going to be very difficult. that was yalda hakim speaking
To take over and the peace process was not a peace process. it was a process for regime change. a few days ago we saw the us launch a strike inside kabul which killed ayman al zawahiri, the leader of al-anda. i m interested, for you as an afghan, and you claim to still have support inside the country, are you supportive of these so called over the horizon us military strikes inside afghanistan or not? i would have supported that if they were not hypocrites. they are allowing ten people in the taliban cabinet, on whose head there is bounty, to go around, and they selectively come and kill one terrorist, which means washington, unlike what they were saying, for washington, there are good terrorists and bad terrorists.
In the future. as i said, they knowingly allowed the taliban takeover and the peace process was not a peace process. it was a process for regime change. aha, a process for regime change. a few days ago we saw the us launch a strike inside kabul which killed ayman al zawahiri, the leader of al-anda. i m interested, for you as afghan, and you claim to still have support inside the are you supportive of the so called over the horizon us military strikes inside afghanistan or not? i strikes inside afghanistan or not? ., , ., not? i would offer support for that if they not? i would offer support for that if they were not? i would offer support for that if they were not - that if they were not hypocrites. they are allowing ten people in the taliban cabinet on whose head there is a bounty, to go around, and they selectively come and kill one terrorist, which means washington, unlike what they
As a doctor in egypt but became involved with radical circles. he helped plan the 9/11 attacks in which nearly 3,000 people were killed. america placed a $20 million bounty on his head. president biden was in the command centre when osama bin laden was killed. and here he is being briefed on this weeekend s operation, a major success after criticism of last year s chaotic troop withdrawal from afghanistan. no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. unlike al-anda, the taliban have a national, not global, agenda, but they have been close allies of al-qaeda for years. recently they played