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He described the situation in Afghanistan as a period of great flux.
There is great concern about what is going to happen to the future of Afghanistan , Maj Gen Fraser said. The Taliban’s intent is well understood. They want to overthrow the Afghan government and bring it back to pre-2001. The Afghan government has been asleep at the switch because they haven’t really been pushing for a peaceful reconciliation with the moderate side of the Taliban.”
He said Mr Biden “is trying to force the hand of the Afghan government”, but doing so carries “a huge political risk .
is more accessible to this society, acceptable to the society, what additional resources do you need to play that role? i know you have announced a mission to hire more agents, particularly with financial, legal backgrounds. what is going to be required to get the job done, not only in terms of people power, but also in terms of making up for what has historically been the week capability, given the mission that you have announced your undertaken. capability has improved dramatically since september 11th. we could use more resources in that regard. in the week of september 11th, we have addressed the threat, imminent at that time, by transferring agents. increases were mostly on the national security side. we have not had an opportunity, those agents that had come from the criminal side, many of them have been doing narcotics and white-collar criminal cases. as we faced the mortgage fraud crisis, the investigation, corporations and the like, we have made a request to congre