But i do believe that the taliban is going to put extra resources to target isis, specifically in the east of the country. and that goes for the taliban to showcase that it s capable actually of acting as a de facto governing body in afghanistan. that, you know, a ragtag terrorist group is not going to do the work that empires like the british empire, the soviets, and of course the americans were not able to accomplish. so it s going to put extra resources to showcase its strength to potentially try to uproot isis from from afghanistan. i don t think, though, the u.s. and the taliban will be communicating on the results of those um countermeasures to target isis. i do believe that the u.s. is going to use air power as much as possible, in addition to, you know, eavesdropping on communication at large. but i think the taliban are going to rely on human sources to bring them the the intelligence in order for them to know the locations of the isis cells and target them. counteri
I think the general assumption is that as we depart, we re going to need to depart from a functional completely operational airport. that is our assumption going forward. that it will be operational right up until we re gone. and as you probably heard secretary blinken say the other day, that we re working with the international communities, there are sefrm nations that want to contribute to the effort to keep it operational and willing to work with the taliban to that end and i ll let them speak to that effort. gordon. in taliban operations against isis aside, any future things or whatever, do you have any assessment of what isis fighters at the prisons that they may have taken action against or killed other than some of the ones that we know about? i do not. i don t. is that something that is knowable? that you have sought to find out and can t find out. i don t know if that is
Series of explosions that they were going to stop afghans getting to the airport. they had announced that it would be for foreigners only. that they really didn t want the atrocious brain drain that was happening. i mean, the country s most educated were showing up at the impaets of the airport. the taliban had already started to really restrict movement. but also, of course, the blast is going to scare people off. i mean, you have to remember that kabul has been menaced by isis for several years and isis attacks are notorious for the brutality and absolute determination to kill civilians. these are the attacks that hit girl s schools and wedding halls. in terms of the psychological impact on residents of kabul, there s this definitely has an impact. you know, as to whether or not they re going to go to a certain area or avoid something or avoid an event. this has been going on for years. absolutely. it s hard to understand how you can expect anyone after the carnage that we saw from
As said isis since yesterday, people were worried about everything about the taliban, they were psychologically and in a lot of situations. target and torture by the taliban. but since yesterday that isis created afghan people are more worried. do you think that it is another will stop in afghanistan, that way most of afghan people question and everybody now want to leave the country. because now is before it was only taliban and now isis also. do you think that is another civil war? [ inaudible ]. before i try to answer that question, i do want to take the opportunity on behalf of the department of defense to also make sure that we express our condolences for the afghan
0 much but if it is significantly pushed back and what are you seeing in terms of flow to abbey gate. is it less people being allowed in or still a rush of people? which could lead to some what are you seeing today? so, what i can report as my discussion with the commanders there on the the ground is that multiple activities have taken place to increase the force protection specifically in communication with the taliban of how they are executing their check point operations and communication. so i would say there is multiple, i don t want to good into the details of the exact communication but that is happened. and what we ve seen today is a little lessening of what we would say total capacity of people in and around gates. thank you. as said isis since yesterday, people were worried about everything about the taliban, they were psychologically and in a lot of situations. target and torture by the taliban. but since yesterday that isis created afghan people are more worried. do