across the country that killed dozens of people including civilians and police forces also afghan national army members the deadliest was in kabul as well as in north and battle on province in kabul a suicide bomber targeted at polling center in north part of the city and killed over a dozen people including police forces more stuff the attacks were actually not very very big they were magnetic bombs planted explosives especially a dig a tz or nearby the polling stations and taliban did claim responsibility saying that they have carried out over four hundred attacks across the country and they have been saying that the afghan government is not a legitimate government so they do not recognize the afghan government as a legitimate government that's why they claim that this is a puppet government and people should not. justify to empower the process that is according to the taleban is an american or a western process we still have to wait and see what will happen next because the election process. has been extended by the independent election commission for the next day which is tomorrow people we

across the country that killed dozens of people including civilians and police forces also afghan national army members the deadliest was in kabul as well as in north and battle on province in kabul a suicide bomber targeted at polling center in northen part of the city and killed over a dozen people including police forces so it was one of the. deadliest day for kabul people as you know the taliban already have warned people not to participate in this process they have already by caught it and warned teachers and university lecturers not to participate because that the majority of the stuff for the voting process or the teachers of the schools and the locations that the voters. cast their votes who are these schools and mosques and so it was quite tense day for afghan security because two of provinces. they were highly attacked and there have been. one thousand eight hundred security threats many of them have been prevented by afghan security forces we still have to wait and see what will happen next because the election process has been extended by the independent election commission for the

army. we pulled the training wheels off too early. by that, i mean that only the afghan special forces had mentors from nato nations with them. every time they went against the enemy, the taliban, they won against the enemy. in penny packets across the country were afghan security forces that we had pulled all mentoring away from, so we were going to look at this as a regional problem. it reinforced the troops and realign them so more courses had our mentors with them -- so more forces had our mentors with them. when you fight in mount miss country, the high ground is tough to take it the enemy has it. mountainous country, the high ground is tough to take if the enemy has it. we would be able to always have the high ground. that changes the tactical situation. it is protection of the people that we are trying to do. in some cases, we surrendered ground where few, if any, people lived. thes not a matter of military holding the ground. and 1000 dead in august september. they stayed in the field fighting, and the taliban has been prevented from doing what they said they were going to do, which was to hold district and provincial