cases where they were for example or they were able to kidnap two professors from the american university of afghanistan and now they are somewhere between afghanistan and pakistan in some remote areas so this is a cause for concern i did time when these afghans who work with the u.n. and other international agencies they are the eyes and ears of these organizations you know a lot of these western organizations would be relying on their local expertise to navigate the complex situations or details here in kabul in everywhere else in the country. you said that even you know noticed an increase in these attacks on foreign workers being targeted and obviously this comes just a day after the attack at the intercontinental hotel in your opinion do you think these are deliberate attacks this isn't deliberate intensification of the attacks. hiding what i see that the criminal gangs or the militants there are abuses in the current volatile security situation in my view kabul is a city of seven million people or so it's you know a city not belt according to any plan and you have a lot of people who are flooded t

as have the as has the use of kidnappings i spent the last year as president of the american university of afghanistan in kabul and we have two professors who a year and a half ago were kidnapped by the taliban remain in prison by the taliban and so i believe it's a much more dangerous situation certainly in afghanistan now than it was even five or ten years ago francois picking up on on what david said you know one of the things that led to the u.n. security council resolution twenty two eighty six being passed in two thousand and sixteen was the destruction of the doctors without borders hospital the can do is trauma center you know but hasn't violence against humanitarian groups only worsened since then. i think it's we have to be our first i would like to highlight one thing is that the violence against walker human you die and worker is a symptom of the general violence that the civilian population in comfort zone are suffering from. usually we take account of your own staff being victim of attack patients being victims of attack but also the general population. direct victim of this level of vio

walled in not just once but three times that's the number of barriers in closing the american university of afghanistan there are also numerous security checks the university is filled not just with students but also security personnel there largely from india not afghanistan to be sure that no taliban member has infiltrated the squad after one terrorist attack the university was closed for more than six months the college president is adamant something like that will never happen again. we of course had to increase our security massively but we did that and we were very worried that many students would come back in fact many students came back many more new students came and over the last three or four weeks this university has become a bright beacon of hope for all of afghanistan. almost eight hundred students are enrolled here many of them can still remember the attack which claimed the lives of sixteen people. or you. when you talk of anywhere in the second floor of the building which was attacked and then the attackers eventually made their way up to the class that we were hiding so we had to actu

of personal narrative here. i first came to salem state university in 2004 as the american wars in iraq and afghanistan seemed to be reaching something of a crescendo, but, of course, here we are 14 years later and many of the goals of what was then dubbed operation enduring freedom and operation iraqi freedom remain as murky as ever. what was most striking to me about my first few years at a public university in a state known for its educational rigor and intellectual discourse was how few of my civilian students were thinking deeply about the blood and treasure being expended on behalf of oef and oif. some students might certainly make connections between these contemporary wars and those conflicts they were studying in the classroom, but there was really little sense of urgency and there was certainly an absence of vigorous discourse about what was unfolding. in an age in less than 1/2 of 1% of the population serves in the armed forces, too many of our fellow citizens have either grown comfortable with war or simply ignored it entirely. nowhere should this be more unsettling than at an institution of higher e