carried out that attack in late august that left 13 u.s. service members dead and, of course, a large number of afghans, that person was released from a prison near kabul just days earlier. remarkable thing, the taliban is policing isis-k there. oren lieberman joins us from the pentagon. this is one of many hundreds of prisoners, right, released in those days and weeks before going back to the trump agreement with the taliban. the concern must be that there are potentially many more people like this out there. not just hundreds of prisoners released from those prisons, but thousands from the prison in bagram air base and t another one, both close to kabul, and as the taliban approached kabul, they reelease all of the prisoners, many from the taliban but others from isis-k.
we have break news about the suicide attack in afghanistan that left 13 u.s. members dead. oren liebermann joins us now from the pentagon. once again, oren, this raises questions about the chaotic nature of the u.s. withdrawal and the repercussions thereof. reporter: absolutely, john. the latest revelations underscore how the final takes of the withdrawal were and how quickly the situation was deteriorating and how quickly afghanistan could be used as a base by terror organizations like al qaeda or isis-k to reconstitute their organizations. so on august 15th, as the taliban was essentially at the gates of kabul, they opened up two prisons, bagram air base and the prison near kabul. in opening up the prisons hours before they took control of the city of kabul, they released