that they do have a vision for a kind of more liberal regime. whether, you know, whether they actually have the authority across the country. you have got to remember, afghanistan is a tribal nation and the remit, you know, the sources of power are quite localised. and so local tribal elders and chiefs will affiliate with the taliban. so it isn t a centralised authority, so they need to work with all these different power centres. whether they can keep a lid on all of that is a completely open question i think at this stage. particularly when, as we have seen, is k were quite capable of carrying out that attack also, they have said, at the airport. isis k is only, there is reckoned only to be about 3000 fighters in is k and it is quite localised, the support of isis within afghanistan. and, as you say, they have fought, the taliban have fought a war with isis.
affiliate with the taliban. so it isn t a centralised authority, so they need to work with all these different power centres. whether they can keep a lid on all of that is a completely open question i think at this stage. particularly when, as we have seen, is k were quite capable of carrying out that attack also, they have said, at the airport. isis k is only, there is reckoned only to be about 3000 fighters in is k and it is quite localised, the support of isis within afghanistan. and, as you say, they have fought, the taliban have fought a war with isis. they have been fighting isis since isis first emerged in afghanistan. they are formally enemies, as we said. marc, we know that these flights to get people out are coming to an end. borisjohnson, for his part, has said he will do everything he can to keep trying to get people out of the country but we know that there have been queues of people trying to get across the land
those sort of things. so i think it is plausible that they do have a vision for a kind of more liberal regime. whether, you know, whether they actually have the authority across the country. you have got to remember, afghanistan is a tribal nation and the remit, you know, the sources of power are quite localised. and so local tribal elders and chiefs will affiliate with the taliban. so it isn t a centralised authority, so they need to work with all these different power centres. whether they can keep a lid on all of that is a completely open question i think at this stage. particularly when, as we have seen, is k were quite capable of carrying out that attack also, they have said, at the airport. isis k is only, there is reckoned only to be about 3000 fighters in is k and it is quite localised, the support of isis within afghanistan. and, as you say, they have fought, the taliban have fought a war with isis. they have been fighting
you know, the sources of power are quite localised. and so local tribal elders and chiefs will affiliate with the taliban. so it isn t a centralised authority, so they need to work with all these different power centres. whether they can keep a lid on all of that is a completely open question i think at this stage. particularly when, as we have seen, is k were quite capable of carrying out that attack also, they have said, at the airport. isis k is only, there is reckoned only to be about 3000 fighters in is k and it is quite localised, the support of isis within afghanistan. and, as you say, they have fought, the taliban have fought a war with isis. they have been fighting isis since isis first emerged in afghanistan. they are formally enemies, as we said. marc, we know that these flights to get people out are coming to an end. borisjohnson, for his part, has said he will do everything
group of isis and afghanistan who has declared its enemy, notjust the americans, but also the taliban, because believe it or not they don t think that taliban is extreme enough. i think it s important to understand that while the taliban may be a de facto taking over afghanistan, that doesn t mean they control that huge country from border to border, and they have by no means an established authority. they may ultimately, or in the short term, control cobble and the levers of power. in terms of where this goes, i think wejust of power. in terms of where this goes, i think we just have to see. 0bviously goes, i think we just have to see. obviously this horrific tale is changing day today. i think that what is really going to determine it is that taliban the same group that it was 20 years ago? car obeyed the hardline extremists who impose just obscenely unity of all punishments on people all and for a swim in out