To try to forget about it. You have chosen to write a book, to dig deep into your memories of that chaos, that desperate time. Why? there are really two questions that people asked me when i got back from kabul in august 2021. One was, why did any of this happen? why did it happen after a 20 year campaign there, the expenditure of thousands of lives, the expenditure of trillions of dollars? how is it that this came to be back in the control of the taliban? the other question i was asked was just what was it like? what was the human element of this? what was it like dealing with desperate people trying to flee their country, you know, with their lives in a carrier bag? what was it like for the people on the ground? and what was it like for the soldiers who had invested so much for so little over that 20 years? you are very candid about the degree of trauma that you felt and that many of those around you felt. Would you say that, sitting here with me now, that trauma is still very real w
To move on, to try to forget about it. You have chosen to write a book, to dig deep into your memories of that chaos, that desperate time. Why? there are really two questions that people asked me when i got back from kabul in august 2021. One was, why did any of this happen? why did it happen after a 20 year campaign there, the expenditure of thousands of lives, the expenditure of trillions of dollars? how is it that this came to be back in the control of the taliban? the other question i was asked was just what was it like? what was the human element of this? what was it like dealing with desperate people trying to flee their country, you know, with their lives in a carrier bag? what was it like for the people on the ground? and what was it like for the soldiers who had invested so much for so little over that 20 years? you are very candid about the degree of trauma that you felt and that many of those around you felt. Would you say that, sitting here with me now, that trauma is still
Withdrawalfrom kabul. Many people would choose to move on, to try to forget about it. You have chosen to write a book, to dig deep into your memories of that chaos, that desperate time. Why? there are really two questions that people asked me when i got back from kabul in august 2021. One was, why did any of this happen? why did it happen after a 20 year campaign there, the expenditure of thousands of lives, the expenditure of trillions of dollars? how is it that this came to be back in the control of the taliban? the other question i was asked was just what was it like? what was the human element of this? what was it like dealing with desperate people trying to flee their country, you know, with their lives in a carrier bag? what was it like for the people on the ground? and what was it like for the soldiers who had invested so much for so little over that 20 years? you are very candid about the degree of trauma that you felt and that many of those around you felt. Would you say that,
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. A man alleged to be the sole surviving gunman from the islamist gang which murdered 130 people in paris six years ago has told a court he is a fighter for the islamic state group. Salah abdeslam is one of 20 defendants in what is the biggest terror trial in modern french history. The prosecution says they were all involved in the shootings and bombings of november 2015, which targeted locations including bars, restaurants and the bataclan concert hall. From paris, our correspondent lucy williamson reports. Sirens the sirens sounded again in paris today for the men accused of terrorising this city six years ago. Sounds that once accompanied that fear and panic, now accompanying the defendants on their way to justice. It was a night when security felt uncertain, when no one in paris knew where to run. As islamist gunmen targeted bars, restaurants, the football stadium, the bataclan concert hall. Explosion. Salah abdeslam, the
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