25 August 2023, Karachi - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA), and the Ministry of Interior (MOI) organized a two-day workshop on requesting electronic evidence in terrorism-related cases.
or isis. it s a real possibility in a not too distant future. that warning came after the generals contradicted president biden saying they supported leaving a small troop presence in afghanistan. joining me now is a veteran who served in afghanistan congressman auchincloss, good to see you, congressman. i want to start with that warning from general milley. i know you think ending the war was rooigt, but how worried are you about that and what can be done about that? it s good to be on. the united states maintains robust counterterrorism capabilities that intertwine human intelligence, unmanned aerial systems and special operations. those capabiliies are active in dozens of countries around the world than. they must reremain active. 24 administration has committed
few seconds i have left and we can take the second rounder off the record, future counterterrorism operations, we have to reorganize our counterterrorism capabilities and our assets in the reg op, of course, as we move to an over-the-horizon scenario, so second austin and general mckenzie, and we ll take these in the second round, i would like the teens what is the plan for an enduring counterterrorism strategy that s going to be able to address and counter the influence of the violent extremist organizations in afghanistan? thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, senator rosen. senator hawley, please. thank you, mr. chairman. let me just sum up where i understand that we are based on what s been a fairly extraordinary hearing. here s what i ve had learned so far. number one, the president. united states lied to the american people about the advice that you gave to him about the military judgment that you provided for him. i think you ve all testified to that effect now repeatedly. sec
0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. but you didn t address the issue that you made if it was your plan, you acknowledge it was your plan and your plan said you would do all these things before we got our civilians out. i mean, when in the history of this country have we ever had the u.s. military say and have a plan that we will take our military out first before we take our civilians? i can t imagine that. when you say civilians, are you are you talking. american citizens. american citizens, yeah. the american citizens would come out once a non-combatant evacuation is declared, and
pentagon and by our state department and by our coalition allies, too. i do have to let you go. i just want to ask again, big picture here, maybe put on your old state department hat here as well. as the world looks at this this morning, as the world looks at this morning where there are no u.s. troops in afghanistan for the first time in 20 years, what do you think the lesson is in terms of american power? i think i don t know that i m qualified to answer that question, john. i think there s going to be a lot of time for historians and acade academics to work their way through that. what i can tell you is we ve learned a lot over the last 20 years and we ve improved a lot of our counterterrorism capabilities, intelligence capabilities. there was progress made in afghanistan. it will be up to the taliban to see what they do with the progress. there s been a lot of progress made. in the course of 20 years of trying to prevent that place from ever being a safe haven again, we did l