-say it with me. -homeandautobundle no one s leaving till you say it right. homeandauto. ins trying to evacuate freight let s bring in current affairs analyst, he always good to see you in get your perspective on things. the focus of course is on getting people out. we will get to the threat that being faced by those people in just a second. first of all, let s look at the longer picture. you put the taliban back in control of afghanistan with isi resurgent, with al qaeda resurgent, where do you think the country will be headed in that years ahead? that is a very powerful question we will have to look a it from general perspective, we spent 20 years to remove the
with less than a week to go to american forces let set to leav afghanistan, there are still major questions about if u.s. citizens will be able to get ou safely. today i did speak with a the spokesperson for the taliban an this spokesman told me that the will allow for the safe passage of americans from other parts o afghanistan as long as those individuals have a u.s. passpor in recent days the taliban and announced that afghans would no longer be permitted to leave is the situation outside of the kabul airport remains tense. here is what the taliban had to say to fox news earlier today. there are thousands of americans stranded in other parts of afghanistan places lik kandahar, not just kabulthe tal that are planning to leave
afghanistan and may maybe heade toward the united states? we are concerned about that and concerned about the fact that the pentagon in the state department don t have lists of americans that are there. they seem to not have lists of our siv applicants that are there? likewise, john, they are concerned about what is going o on the southern border. the fact that we have already apprehended terrorists, people that we re on the terrorist watch list, there is this southern border, francis apprehended someone who was let go from the prison they are in bagram airbase, they say what i happening is just a dismantling of what we have had with our partners and allies to defend against this war on terror. people are saying wait a minute you have so terribly just manag this, you did not want a conditions -based strategy and exits, what you wanted was a
this deadline. we await the state department i we will hear what they have to say as to what happens next. your thoughts. remarkable stuff. one of the things we have been tracking today just release for us is a plea from the afghanistan and via that airpor is the media, the free press, i is under threat by taliban as well. we ve learned today that in fac a team from the biggest news network in afghanistan told our news was beaten, attacked by taliban fighters, their gear in their camera stolen even though they were showing press identification in it s not an isolated incident. take a listen to what we heard from the head of the media group . this is very concerning for us. if people are not safe venturin out and talking to people, literally 1 kilometer, this is not like in the middle of nowhere.
for international jihadist organization to operate against the middle east that would be the arab countries in israel, europe, and as we always project , the united states. the secretary of defense reef congress in said he assess the terror threat from afghanistan was medium, and it would take them a couple of years for terrorist fractions to reconstitute themselves in any way that they would be a threat to the outside world. the general in recent days has said we will probably need to reassess that guidance. what do you think the threat is of this going forward? i think there is that it is not projected. the hard truth is why we were there with all of our resources and air force and special force on the ground and on and on, th threat was medium because we were there, because the afghan army was there. once we withdrew in now the afghan army is not in charge it has been mostly dismantled, tha threat is going to grow tenfold.