regional areas to the afghan government, they were able to very quickly overcome the central government s support in the various regional capitols. and the regional capitals did what was a long lift in afghanistan, lthey looked at which way the wind was blowing and went with the most powerful group in the region. that was the taliban. eventually collapse after collapse of the various regional capitals, the only thing left was kabul. and what happened there was that the leadership of that government in kabul fled. they left town, leaving no government really a fabric of government in place. and so yes, this is where we are. the n
about 100 miles away from ta had hit sea port area from yesterday s earthquake. thank you so much. hello. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. we begin with this breaking news, the collapse of afghanistan s government. right now taliban forces have taken over the capitol city of kabul and the presidential palace. the u.s. embassy is completely evacuated, we re told. the american flag on the building, taken down. choppers have shuttled u.s. personnel of the kabul airport for flights out of the country. still unclear whether flights are actually happening. sources tell cnn afghanistan s president has fled the country afghan for reportedly tajikistan. in desperation, long lines of
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perhaps in the current administration? was it in intel? was it in ungoverned spaces in afghanistan? or was it this new afghan military, or something else? well, first of all, the afghan military had been supported for hundreds of billions of dollars over the previous 20 years with equipment, personnel training. what never happened, and this was apparent, although our intelligence community and the military often denied it. what was apparent was that that military did not have the regional support. it had the support of the central government, but the central government lacked support out in the region. what we d call the war lords, the leaders of the various factions, never really submitted to the central government in kabul. the result of that was that the taliban which was in some ways still connected in those
fleeing in 2001. in fact, we want to show some of your reporting from back then. this is the third day the city of kabul will wake up to the liberation from the taliban forces and people having going around doing things that in the five years of taliban rule would have made them criminals. playing music in public, women coming out from homes and venturing out to see if they can return to their jobs, get back into the work force. this had been banned under the taliban for the past five years and women and children had suffered greatly because of the inability to provide any work, any money, or any health and nourishment for their families. men are coming out and again, lining up to get their beards cut. this because under the taliban, beards were made to be grown at a certain regulation length. so all sorts of things happening in the city here. the defines it returning to a period of normality.