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clamour people desperate to find ways to get that airport. i worked in security with british people. how many years? maybe one year, i was, a few years ago. but now the british are saying it s too dangerous to go to the airport. it s dangerous, yes. i cannot go in the airport. i cannot go. even three year old salim is worried, just listening to his mother. she tells us they got to the airport and were sent from gate to gate. she says the taliban asked, why do you want to leave? and threatened to shoot her. now, it s been two days on this street for her exhausted children. the taliban are now stopping afghans from even travelling to the airport. but still, they try. they re bringing certificates,
are in going to the airport, whatever the risks there are at the airport today, for all of them just look at this for them, the greatest danger is staying here in afghanistan. and tonight, that danger all too clear. there had been warnings for a week of an attack like this a last strike against western troops set to leave within days, another blow to many afghans last hope of leaving this chaos behind. lyse doucet, bbc news, kabul. we can now speak to bradley bowman who serves as senior director of the center on military and political power at the foundation for defense of democracies. he previously served as a national security advisor to members of the us senate armed services and foreign relations committees, as well as serving in afghanistan as an active duty us army officer. thank you very much for being with us. i have to ask you, we were warned in the last few days of the potential imminent
ahead than isis k which isjust pushing for violence as quickly as possible and really threatened by any telephone consolidation and control over afghanistan but i think there is a whole spectrum of issues there. it is a question for all of afghanistan. including those flues which are perceived to have achieved someone through the telephone such as pakistan. including those states. it including those states. it is including those states. it is notjust kabul airport where thousands have been gathering to try to leave afghanistan since the taliban took over the country. thousands of travelled to the border with pakistan but many are not being allowed through.
infrastructure not in the country with these potential strikes from the united states coming offshore or over the horizon and some other parts of the region and in counterterrorism what you require when you are looking for people or individuals as targets, you are trying to get very precise intelligence, and so when you are not on the ground, when you don t have that infrastructure in place it just makes it harder. it doesn t mean it s impossible but it is just going to increase the ability or complicate the ability of the united states to engage in those operations.- united states to engage in those operations. ok, we will leave it there. those operations. ok, we will leave it there. thank - those operations. ok, we will leave it there. thank you i those operations. ok, we willj leave it there. thank you very much forjoining us. it s notjust kabul airport where people have been gathering to try to leave afghanistan since the taliban took over the country. thousands have also travell