Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate, attended and spoke at the clerics' gathering held at the Loya Jirga Hall in Kabul.
Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate, attended and spoke at the clerics' gathering held at the Loya Jirga Hall in Kabul.
to vet. yesterday press secretary jen psaki said 77% of the evacuees were at risk afghans. alejandro mayorkas did not answer today whether any of them had been flaked in the vetting process. despite antony blinken speaking this hours, we re not clear if any more americans have made it out or how many green card holders or afghan allies remain. reports of the taliban killing afghans is causing questions about whether the taliban can be trusted to keep their other promise, the promise of safe passage. no one, the president, secretary of defense, nobody from the intelligence committee that the taliban are good actors. we re not saying that. that s one of the reasons we re so clear. the pentagon said they re not putting a cooperative agreement
afghan refugees that want to get out of the country remain. we re hearing more and more reports of the taliban killing afghans that helped the united states going back on their promise of amnesty. it s causing fresh questions about whether the taliban can be trusted to keep their promise of safe passage. the white house says this is one of the reasons that the u.s. not rushing to recognize the taliban. the pentagon says there might be the need for collaboration going forward. nobody is trying to ink some sort of military cooperation agreement with the taliban. they wouldn t rule out there might be occasions when there might need to be. some informational component there with the taliban going forward. senate republicans want answers on why a majority of afghan sivs that helped the u.s. were not evacuated. they want breakdown of who has made it in to the country.
but that said, it s hard to predict what the taliban will do and it s not just one group and they have the enemy as you mentioned earlier and you were talking about earlier. they have an enemy there who will take advantage and show they have no qualms when it comes to killing afghans. interesting you bring up this point. i don t think we talk about this enough knowing and reporting on the taliban. the fact that it s not a normal power structure the way u.s. marines are made up of. you could have the spokesperson saying one thing and negotiating one thing and you could have another man on the ground in kabul doing exactly the opposite. it speaks to the lack of trust in negotiating with an organization like the taliban when there really is no power structure, not really knowing who the leadership is. absolutely. absolutely. i ll give you an example. i was speaking to an afghan