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Lara Logan describes terror people in Afghanistan are facing

2021-08-20 | 🔗
Fox Nation host Lara Logan and former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus discusses Biden's Afghanistan debacle on 'Hannity'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Our prayers are with your friends and people, you know, and everyone else in that situation we are also learning even more about just how gruesome just how brutal life under the Taliban really is. For example, an afghan mom blinded by the Taliban says they will feed womens bodies to dogs and afghan karate champion telling Reuters that she fears everything is finished for all female athletes in the country. What an absolute human tragedy here, with more reaction from a former State Department spokeswoman, Morgan, Ortagus, Monmouth, Foxnation, dot, com host Lara Logan Lara youve spent time there. I believe, Morgan you are as well, but you know the reality of the situation on the ground. What are you hearing? You know Sean, as I have been sitting here listening and to the show a friend of mines. Brother was just shot inside the airport in Kabul. Another friend of mine called
because a former intelligence official that we both know whose family is being hunted its not just immediate family, its extended family as well. The Taliban have all the biometric records they have taken over the intelligence agencies. They have addresses detailed lists of everyone who they are looking for. Oh boy, killing their children and hearing the same thing. Saras hearing gates are open gates are closed, checkpoints are open. Checkpoints are closed between the military and state. The orders are changing constantly, nobody is making decisions and those are private. American citizens, many former veterans, but not all, some of whom are on the ground and some of whom trying to rescue people trying to hunt. You know, find the families of special operations, soldiers and move them to safe houses because they are being hunted and what they are telling me. Is there literally on the brink of going to the Germans and the Australians to get the mission, because the? U dot S military and
state Department, keep blocking the flights they keep refusing clearances and that they are so frustrated that at this point they think that General Milley should resign that he is making this mission impossible. They dont understand why there isnt a perimeter already established and controlled by the? U DOT S military five days in at this point they say it is unacceptable and what I am hearing from afghan security officials who have been directly involved and talking to people right now, is that that August 31st deadline is not optional or the: u dot S. The Taliban is telling the U dot s that they have to be out of the country by then they are pushing for one hundred percent power. They are ordering afghan officials who they are supposedly in talks with to swear allegiance to the Talibans islamic emirate. If you recall, it became the leader of Al Qaeda after Bin Laden, he swore publicly to the Islamic at the right of the Taliban, and they want to see
the Taliban flag flying over Afghanistan for the 20th anniversary of nine Slash eleven. That is what afghan intelligence and security officials have been telling me, and they say there are no talks that the europeans- everybody else, knows it and they are just grabbing up their people and running for the exits as fast as they can, because this is going so far south and they are not having success. Getting to the locations they want. Morgan. You are with Secretary of State Pompeo during this entire time that all of this had been negotiated under very different circumstances and terms that would have dire consequences immediately. Had the Taliban ever stepped out of line, we did not lose a single American in over a year in the last year of Donald trumps presidency. As a result of that, tell us what you know and what you are hearing. You know many people on the ground there today as we speak, yeah Sean ive spent the last week trying to get friends out people that I worked with over the last ten years that I have been personally in and out
of Afghanistan. I was there several times with MIKE Pompeo, but you had on Kayleigh, Mcenany and others earlier talking about the plight of women in Afghanistan. Remember just a few years ago, in two thousand and seventeen I went with the American University of Afghanistan to speak at a Womens Entrepreneurship conference in Afghanistan. I was at the hotel which Lara has traveled and reported throughout the world, so she knows this hotel very well. I was speaking to a crowd of women at a conference. I think we were there for at least two days and the vision of those women is really burned into my head, but ill tell you whats different from when the Taliban ruled twenty years ago to how they rule. Now there is a generation of women of young women that were born. You know right when the Taliban fell, or maybe they were toddlers, but they have grown up with social media. They have grown up in a free and independent Afghanistan, and I see some of them still
bravely protesting. I dont know how they have the guts to do this, but I have seen the images of some of them doing it. Some of the female politicians speaking out, you know I worry about the Afghanistan that we are leaving behind. Obviously there are so many people that are desperately trying to get out. You really have a brain drain, Sean. You know I was helping a friend thank God. He got out who was a lawyer in Afghanistan, a Harvard educated lawyer in Afghanistan. We were able to get him and his immediate family out. You think about all of these people that may have been educated in the United States or trained with us. The smartest people in Afghanistan are fleeing because they are subject to being killed by the Taliban. So I think the real human tragedy of all of this that we will see unfold is not only the fact that it is likely that Al Qaeda will reconstitute. We think that is probably a given, but the human aspect in all of this, not just what they are seeing right now, but the fact
the smartest people are fleeing the country, whats left yeah if they can get out thats the scary part and those wrists Lara are talking about, are chilling. They have the names the database. Thank you both. We appreciate getting some truth because we are not getting it from Joe Biden. All right, dont forget watch part one of the new season. Lara Logan has no agenda. 21St century terrorism revealed.
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