The US does not currently have the capability to evacuate large numbers of Americans who are outside Kabul - and troops are having to negotiate with the Taliban to allow people passage to the airport, the US defence secretary has said
Anyone looking for a sign of confidence and a hint that the United States was in the process of turning this disaster around would have been disappointed, even alarmed, by the performance of the US Defense Secretary and his top general at their first Pentagon briefing.
“Currently, the security situation at the airport is stable. However, there are threats we are closely monitoring… The Taliban are in and around the Kabul airport but not interfering with our operations.” Interestingly in the embargoed text of the speech we had received before he delivered it, the word"facilitating" had read"guaranteeing".
"Were the US troops able to go beyond the perimeter of the airport?" they were asked. It was the key question given that the assurances of safe passage by the Taliban do not appear to match the facts on the ground.
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