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#Afghanistan: Safe home to the TTP and Al Qaeda. Bill Roggio, FDD

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

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#Afghanistan: Safe home to the TTP and Al Qaeda. Bill Roggio, FDD
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2023/07/taliban-again-denies-ttp-presence-in-afghanistan.php

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0:00.0

This is CBS I On The World with John Bacheler. Here's John Bacheler.

0:12.0

Two years, less a few weeks, evacuation of Cabal on worldwide television, panic, crisis,

0:21.0

death, confusion, blame, two years, less a few weeks later, we have a headline and a story

0:29.5

from London. An Afghan judge who adjudicated cases involving the Taliban and crimes such as murder

0:35.5

and kidnapping has been granted permission to enter the United Kingdom after a two-year legal

0:41.5

battle with the Home Office. Known as Yosra to protect your identity, the judge has been hiding

0:49.5

in Pakistan after the Home Office initially refused to allow her and her son entered the UK.

0:55.5

I mention this as I welcome Bill Rajo, the senior fellow of the Foundation for the Defensive

1:00.5

Democracies, who keeps the Long-Ware Journal because Yosra, I wish her well, she's now traveling

1:08.5

to the UK or near too, according to the London Times. Yosra is one version of many people

1:16.5

who are gravely at risk and remain so two years less a few weeks later. We can only guess

1:22.5

how many are waiting for the U.S. to permit them to enter the country.

1:27.5

Hiding in Pakistan, hiding in India, just generally hiding from the revenge of the Taliban.

1:33.5

Bill, a very good evening to you. I know that you and colleagues got involved in helping people

1:39.5

move along to leave Afghanistan after the U.S. left that day in August.

1:45.5

Is it generally true that that will go on for years? What is your sense of those volunteer

1:52.5

efforts to get people out? Yes, John. Been good evening for every Yosra. There's thousands

1:59.5

of Afghans who have helped the U.S. who have stood up against the Taliban who have tried to help an

2:05.5

independent and free Afghanistan grow who are on the run now, who are seeking asylum in the U.S.

2:13.5

and the U.K. and other western countries that promise to support them, but are failing

2:18.5

too. It's a real crime. It's one of the real moral hazards that have come out of this war.

2:25.5

As an American citizen, I'm a barris for my government for people like Yosra who have to

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