the boundaries from around the gates which have been more successful than some of the other gate and wasn t at this one at that particular time. finally, he talked about the coordination with the taliban. he said they had shared information with the taliban about specific threats. not everything he said but what they needed to know to stop them. he felt that they had been able to stop, taliban had been able to stop some planned attacks. and he said they had screened 140,000 people so far and this implying suggesting that they had managed to do so safely until there s attack took place. and they had expected this was a have a noncompetitive mission we expect to get attacked. and now it has happened. i m interested that you picked up on those comments about the taliban. i do note it down that general mckenzie said they were coordinating with the taliban and at the moment america and the taliban have a common purpose for this to be done by the 31st of august and he said
will close off their question by saying we take the threat of these attacks very seriously but we are working them very hard and doing a variety of things and we have got as the you know attack helicopters on the you know attack helicopters on the ground that we are trying to take a look and they have very good thermal and optical imaging systems and we have aircraft overhead that have also had very good imaging systems and we have unmanned aircraft that had the ability to look. all of these systems are being applied in defence of the airfield and on a continual basis and vetted tjy and on a continual basis and vetted by the intelligence that we receive and we also use the taliban as a tool to protect us as much as possible. alex, are you there? yes. thank you for doinu alex, are you there? yes. thank you for doing this- alex, are you there? yes. thank you for doing this. can alex, are you there? yes. thank you for doing this. can you alex, are you there? yes. thank you for doing
attack that was shooting towards coalition forces and american forces. now this is what the taliban would have been doing evening until a few weeks ago. this was the prayer delete i preferred attack. now the islamic state is seen as a potent threat. more importantly, these are people who are fleeing, fearing for their lives and this airport has now become a deadly front line where you talk about this massive bomb or you talk about this massive bomb or you talk about this massive bomb or you talk about gunfire and stampede. let me just remind you what we ve heard from the americans in the last hour. 12 military personnel been killed in this attack. 15 are wounded, the americans say they expect further get a tax to be continued, they highlight the possibility of a vehicle bomb. they say they re reaching out to the taliban and coordinating with them. yes we will go after those who are behind the attacks was that they set in the briefing there s been no attribution they are able to confirm
be answered militarily by the us? number of questions there. let me take them in order. the attack from isis threats from isis has been extremely real. he saw it manifested itself in the last few hours at an actual attack. we believe if they desire to continue does attacks and we expect them to continue. we are doing everything we can to be prepared for those attacks. that includes reaching out to the taliban who are actually providing the security cordon around the airfield to make sure they know what we expect them to do to protect us and continue to co ordinate with them as they go forward. we are continuing to bring people onto the airfield. we bought a number of buses aboard the airfield over the last couple of hours until he will continue to process and the plan is designed to operate its under stress and under attack. and we will continue to do that. we will co ordinate very carefully to make sure it is safe for american citizens to come to the airfield and if it s not he will t
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