in 2018, massoud narrowly avoided two assassination attempts.rst, his car was riddled with bullets. in the second, a suicide bomber had targeted a group of journalists. i was clicking my camera and the explosion happened left to right, in the viewer of my camera, in the frame. massoud lost nine of his friends and colleagues in the blast. that attack was completely and exactly against journalists. the only chance and luck that i had, i was ten metres away. that's it. otherwise, we all were being killed there. seeing massoud confined to four walls was a disturbing sign of the growing fear amidst the taliban resurgence. before retaking the country, the taliban — along with otherjihadi groups — were staging ever more brazen attacks. by 2020 many here were living in constant fear. we saw an increase in targeted killings. shaharazad akbar is the chairperson of the afghan independent human rights commission, which investigates human rights abuses in afghanistan. last summer a bomb attack killed two of her colleagues, fatima khalil and jawed folad. i wo

in 2011, massoud photographed - true. in 2011, massoud photographed the - true.cide bombing of a shia shrine. his photo was a stark warning to the world that the gains that had been made in afghanistan since 2001 could easily be wiped away. it since 2001 could easily be wiped away-— wiped away. it still is too much painful. _ wiped away. it still is too much painful. i— wiped away. it still is too much painful. i mean, i wiped away. it still is too | much painful. i mean, it's haunting. _ much painful. i mean, it's haunting, that _ much painful. i mean, it's haunting, that image - much painful. i mean, it's haunting, that image of i much painful. i mean, it's. haunting, that image of the young girl amongst her family. the same year massoud took that picture, president barack 0bama announced the withdrawal of tens of thousands of american troops from the country. 0ver troops from the country. over the next few years, the taliban gained in strength and influence. afghans like massoud started to see attacks against civilians become more common. in 2018, massoud narr

massoud's parents left afghanistan when he was a small child.on in 2001, he decided to return and take part in the rebuilding of the nation. one of my favourite pictures when i came to afghanistan, this is the second day, the morning of the second day that i arrived in kabul. and this picture gave me a lot of hope. i thought that we were going to be a normal country, normal society. girls can do this, they can come to the cultural events like this. but did your wishes come true, to some extent, coming back to afghanistan, being so active and involved? yeah, well, that is something that i felt as a responsibility to do for my country, you know? but i think that it never come true. in 2011, massoud photographed the suicide bombing of a shia shrine. his photo was a stark warning to the world that the gains that had been made in afghanistan since 2001 could easily be wiped away. it still is too much painful. i mean, it's haunting, that image of the young girl amongst her family. mm. the same year massoud took that picture, president barack 0bama ann

massoud's parents left afghanistan when he was a small child. the us invasion in 2001, he decided to return and take part in the rebuilding of the nation. one of my favourite pictures when i came to afghanistan, this is the second day, the morning of the second day that i arrived in kabul. and this picture gave me a lot of hope. i thought that we were going to be a normal country, normal society. girls can do this, they can come to the cultural events like this. but did your wishes come true, to some extent, coming back to afghanistan, being so active and involved? yeah, well, that is something that i felt as a responsibility to do for my country, you know? but i think that it never come true. in 2011, massoud photographed the suicide bombing of a shia shrine. his photo was a stark warning to the world that the gains that had been made in afghanistan since 2001 could easily be wiped away. it still is too much painful. i mean, it's haunting, that image of the young girl amongst her family. mm. the same year massoud took that picture, president ba

mr massoud, son of the famed anti—soviet resistance fighter ahmad shah massoud, said his forces woulde imposed by the taliban. until a week ago, amrullah saleh was the first vice president of afghanistan. he now considers himself the legitimate caretaker president of afghanistan, and is allied with ahmad massoud. he told the bbc while he was open to dialogue with the taliban, he would not accept their vision of the future of afghanistan. as long as they reject extremism, acknowledge the pluralistic fabric of afghanistan and they should understand we will not — let me be very clear — we will not accept clerical dictatorship in my country. we make peace but the peace should not mean surrender to a group with massive record of human rights violation, massacre of people, you name it — that will not happen. earlier i spoke to 0mar samad. he is former afghan ambassador to france and canada and up until two weeks ago before the taliban takeover he was senior advisor to dr abdullah abdullah, the chief executive of afghanistan. i asked him whether amrullah saleh would have a central role. he w

this is mr massoud — son of the legendary anti—soviet resistance fighter ahmad shah massoud. to an inclusive, decentralised government, but would fight any regime imposed by the taliban. the bbc�*s yalda hakim has just tweeted, "update "from the anti—taliban resistance — they tell me, "taliban ambushed "in andarab of baghlan province." "they say at least 300 taliban fighters were killed." she said this is the group of resistance fighters led by ahmad massoud and amrullah saleh, and posted these stills with her tweet. clearly a situation unfolding there, north of kabul. barbara plett usher is in washington. barbara, first we are expecting... about afghanistan and the extreme weather that you are having there. on afghanistan, is he really on the 0n afghanistan, is he really on the defence now, do you think? weill. on afghanistan, is he really on the defence now, do you think? well, his administration _ defence now, do you think? well, his administration is _ defence now, do you think? well, his administration is on _ defence now, do you think? well, his administration is on the

he is allied to ahmad massoud, the son of the famous guerrilla commander, ahmad shah massoud, who wasd two days before the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago. ahmad massoud spoke to the bbc a short time ago. i am in my sanctuary, i am in my stronghold, panjshir valley. the people of panjshir valley are very much united and they want to defend and they want to fight and they want to resist against any totalitarian regime, against any belief that wants to enforce their own belief and ideology upon the people. the people here are just a small portion of the people of afghanistan. and the geography of panjshir is the smallest province in the whole of afghanistan. but what we are standing for right now is for the whole country. joining us is former bbc correspondent david loyn who interviewed the taliban in 2006. he also spent time with the northern alliance during their fight with the taliban before the american invasion. his new book is titled the long war. welcome back to the programme. tell us a little bit about the history of! . , , . . , of! valley. it is a remarkable geographical— of! valley

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massoud in today's op-ed in the washingt post wrote to fight.hether this is possible as yet to be seen. >> thank you so much. one of the biggest unanswered questions about the taliban's rapid takeover is this. what happened to the afghan army and why didn't they put up more of a fight especially since nato countries invested so much time and money to train afghan fighters to defend their democratically elected government? germany was among the countries involved in the training mission. >> footage of the german army training afghan soldiers several years ago to evidently the combat readiness only existed in training. >> primary reasons for this are not that the afghan security forces were demoralized and elect loyalty to a government that was not unified to add to that the immense casualties. over the past year, some 10,000 police officers and soldiers were killed annually. afghanistan's government was also apparently more facade than substance. the political class was held in low esteem by the afghan population but the west shares blame for try

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two of massoud's brothers including a foreign minister and others who are in islamabad, pakistan anden holding talks with pakistanis. even having meetings with the taliban. it will be back in kabul. there's a push to create a broad-based government. there is going to be a two stage affair. stage one is to agree to some kind of an interim or transitional set up. we should expect that to be broad-based. then they will have to work on something more permanent. that may take months or a year or more. what the taliban spokesman yesterday called creating a new state. a new state order and new political order. that is going to take a bit longer because there are many discussions that have to take place. we don't know if there will be a constitution approved. i see this as a two step process. >> omar just mentioned these meetings that took place in which hamid karzai were a part of. is that an encouraging sign? >> we have to be absolutely clear that efforts to achieve a broad-based government which could end the conflict have been underway for a long time and until now have comprehensively f

this is the panjshir valley, and they are unable to have a hand of i'm massoud said he was ready forert a civil war. this is the smallest province and afghanistan, and what we are standing for right now is for the whole country, for sovereignty, for peace. it is for people. it is for inclusivity and tolerance and acceptance and moderation. he is backed by the country's first vice president, who now considers himself the legitimate caretaker president of afghanistan. we will not — let me be very clear — we will not accept clerical dictatorship and my country. we make peace, but the piece should not mean a surrender to a group with a massive record of human rights violations, massacre of people. you name it. that will not happen. the last time the taliban was in power in the 1990s, women weren't allowed to work. girls couldn't go to school. even now, they defend punishment is like lashings and stoning adulterers to death. today, you do see some women about an kabul, but few of them. many are too afraid to step outside. many worry that while the taliban do promise women will be able to

that is what massoud, which is not his real name, date. which is not his real name, did.ee years ago, just 16, he fled afghanistan when the taliban threatened his family. he said the illegal route was his only option, travelling on foot, in lorries and with people smugglers. i couldn't talk because they had guns and sticks. you can't talk with them, they will just beat you. how do you feel now if your family are still in afghanistan? i don't have contact with my mum and sister. you don't know where they are? i don't know, and when i see the news everyday, bomb blast, the taliban, fighting, i am very scared about what is happening, if they are alive or not. with more refugees expected, the government has promised a plan. we are a big hearted nation and we have always, as i know from my own history, as priti knows from hers, always been a country that has provided a safe haven for those fleeing persecution. this is fresh in many minds, the influx of refugees from syria which became a political point of tension. some 20,000 were settled in the uk, a similar scheme is expecte

restricted to operating with the northern alliance, and some people may not have even known that when massoud was killed, he did not actually die in afghanistan. the suicide attack took place in afghanistan, but he was actually ferried on a helicopter to an indian based on stingy good stand, and that is where he died. i completely agree with your assessment. i wrote an entire book where i actually laid that argument out. that is exactly what motivates pakistan, but i would also say it is not -- i think you didn't nail it. it is not just india. pakistan also has legitimate security concerns about afghanistan. the problem is that the tools it uses to manage those security concerns are highly dangerous and not terribly controllable. going to the point that you made, it may surprise some people, but pakistan was actually waging jihad in afghanistan from 19 73, not 1979, as many people believe. prior to that, pakistan was using a religious group, cultivating their ties in afghanistan as essentially an influence operation or some way managing the developments in afghanistan, so pakistan has been do

afghan leaders from the old guard are still in afghanistan and vowing to fight including awkward massoud, son of a famous afghan commander who fought against the televangelist time around. he just penned about that in today's washington post imploring the united states to provide both weapons and support. >> president biden says chaos in kabul was inevitable after claiming it was not. >> the defense department denies intelligence lord of afghanistan's quick collapse mark meredith continues team coverage as they vowed to grill biden officials on this messy withdrawal. >> president biden telling abc news the chaos unfolding in afghanistan could not be avoided but the afghan government collapsed much faster than he expected. he insists bringing us troops was always the goal, bring them back home. >> we will go back and 9 site and look at the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos in suing i don't that happens. i don't know how that happens. >> was that priced into the decision? >> is. >> reporter: the white house released his photo showing the president giving upda

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northern alliance leader ha mad massoud and his forces have clashed with the taliban over the past weekilitants gave him a sunday deadline to surrender. >> we are not fighting a geography. we are not fighting one province. we are defending the whole country in one province. that's what's happening and we want to make taliban realize that the only way forward is through negotiation and talk, and we are talking to them and we want -- we do not want war to break out and to happen. >> meanwhile, we are following developments at kabul's airport after reports of a fire fight. cnn's nick payton walsh joins me now from doha. nick, let's start with that. what is the latest you are hearing on the fire fight? >> reporter: yeah, this is an instance understand at 4:00 in the morning where a sniper, it's unclear who he was affiliated with, fired on the base, hitting an afghan security force. along with the americans, there were lots of afghan, mostly former special forces, assisting them with the security on that base. that shot killed one of the afghans, and the afghans then returned fire in the gen

the only good news around all of this is the internal front is led by the vice president, ahmad massoud, and general zia who i will be on the phone with again when you and i finish. rapidly building a significant force of resistance fighters, most of them, special operations guys delivering their own humvees and aircraft next-door and in the northern area, and humanitarian assistance. humanitarian assistance in the form of food, fuel and medical supplies. they are asking desperately for covid vaccine or at least some prophylaxis of some kind to help those who are testing positive. we did this before, operation comfort in the 1990s for the kurds. i know a little bit about the resistance organization but the bottom line is we ought to be helping right now with humanitarian help and i hope we will have some of that set up in the next 24 to 48 hours. president biden also, should immediately communicate with president xi jinping in beijing, with the help -- -- additional economic sanctions on china. the same thing in moscow and islamabad. number five, immediately lift the hold on the weapons

some of their children, like ahmad shah massoud's son is ready to leave and fight, but pakistan, without whom there would be no taliban, they invited some of our allies who thought and lost family -- they were invited to pakistan for discussions right before the taliban made their move on kabul. i don't know if they are there of their own choice still or they are being held against their will, but somebody in this administration needs to check on our former allies. they are still our allies, but they are in pakistan somewhere. as i understand it, some in a different country. this administration has done an abysmal job. the intel telling me, people being brought in here, there is a significant percentage that our future boston marathon bombers because they are not doing adequate venting. this and -- vetting. this administration not only has blood on its hands already. it will cost american lives before we get it straight again. i am hoping that by bringing these things out, as we all are here, that enough american people will speak up, not in violence, but in protest, to let the administr

the dead of the afghan special forces and they are there with the vice president and i'll commend massoudacting president of afghanistan and that's not being recognized by this administration. >> harris: it's because president biden is trying to negotiate our way out with the whole event. he does not time for the vice president, the leader in afghanistan. al qaeda, the second person in the taliban is al qaeda. >> the afghan al qaeda is the haqqani network and they are leading the negotiations. the man is in prison, the brother. he's in the leadership of the taliban. he's the face of the afghan al qaeda and they are supported by pakistan and pakistan didn't tell the u.s. that it was invading. or if they did come of the u.s. would've known about it. >> ben: i want to follow on the information that larra has given you to circle back and consider. how big of a mistake it was over multiple and ministrations to not hold pakistan to account for its continued support of all of this. the fact is we didn't want to get into another messy scenario over there and there were all these different rationa

massoud is trying to lead a resistance inside of afghanistan.s he was turned down. what do you say to that? >> again, it is incredulous. very difficult to get in the minds of this irrational thought and what congressman banks did say is true. well over 150, perhaps black hawk helicopters, thousands of vehicles, all kinds of arms seeing them utilize it. a complete misunderstanding what is important and it is quite delusional. now, by the way, not just coming out of the white house, here we are in the capital, today, nancy pelosi and much of the leadership of the democrat house are rewarding themselves by passing a, trying to do their best to pass a 5 trillion-dollar spending bill, not to mention a federal takeover of elections because they're doing such a good job, they feel they should be elected into office regularly. look, we've got to get real. we have to be focused on what makes america, america, and what makes the world safe. it is serious situations. we've got to deal from a position of strength. elizabeth: congressman dan meuser, thank yo

happy birthday, hany massoud!# ♪ >>> hello. welcome back to nhk "newsline."minori in new york. president joe biden said the united states has been a nation too long at war. he addressed americans and the mission in afghanistan and the way it ended. he told them he was not going to extend what he called this forever war. >> we no longer had a clear purpose in an open-ended mission

massoud -- paul: right. >> -- and vice president of afghanistan is there plus a bunch of fighters, and a valley that they've held up in before back in 199462001. -- 1996-2001. let's assess that situation. it's possible we could get them arms and ammunition, certainly, and conduct night drops if they needed something like that thatr other supplies. i wouldn't do anything immediately in terms of recognition, but let's figure out who's there, what the capabilities are, what their potential longevity is before we go as far as recognizing them. but i certainly would not ignore, i'd find out what kind of support they need and we support them. i'm sure we could. paul: all right. general keane, thanks so much for coming in. >>> when we come back, facing harsh criticism for his handling of the afghanistan exit, president biden is refusing to back down. our panel on what the crisis tells us about his judgment and foreign policy, next. ♪♪ r you're winning, or just doing your best. when you're on the lanes, they're right behind you. reunite with your team. go bowling. heyyy! (steins breaking) your

so, the resistance forces in the province, the son of the legendary massoud in the panjab province, they have all gathered in panjshir, and i have spoken to them yesterday and i have interviewed them and i said, what are you all wanting, and they are asking for the international community to not recognize the taliban and no power sharing with them, and we will continue our resistance and we will not surrender until the last breath, and give some credit to president biden in terms of the screwed up the evacuation plan, but it is the afghan president who betrayed his people. so in panjshir, one commander was so upset that he was betrayed and so the most shameful, not only are you leaving, but you are taking the cash and the $169 million rather than controlling the taliban, and last year when president trump made the deal, we gave everything to the taliban, and so, we will spread out the difficulties and the failures. the taliban had to apprehend and i predicted this is happening to every news platform, i said, look, we are giving so much for the taliban and so it is all adding up to the cu

that is what massoud, which is not his real name, date.y option, travelling on foot, in lorries and with people smugglers. i couldn't talk because they had guns and sticks. you can't talk with them, they will just beat you. how do you feel now with your family are still in afghanistan? i don't have contact with my mum and sister. you don't know where they are? i don't know. when i see the news everyday, bomb blast, the taliban, fighting, i am very scared about what is happening, if they are alive or not. with more refugees now expected, the government has promised a plan to help. we will be looking at a bespoke option. we are a big hearted nation and we have always, as i know from my own history, as priti patel knows from hers, has always been a country that has provided a safe haven for those fleeing persecution. this is fresh in many minds, the influx of refugees from syria that became a political point of tension. some 20,000 were settled in the uk, a similar scheme is expected for afghanistan. there is no detail yet. other countries ha

that is what massoud, which is not his real name, date.said the illegal route was his only option, travelling on foot, in lorries and with people smugglers. i couldn't talk because they had guns and sticks. you can't talk with them, they will just be you. how do you feel now if your family are still in afghanistan? i don't have contact with my mum and sister. you don't know where they are. when i see the news everyday, bomb blast, the taliban, fighting, i am very scared about what is happening, if they are alive or not. with more refugees expected, the government has promised a plan to help. we are a big hearted nation and we have always, as i know from my own history, as priti patel knows from hers, has always been a country that has provided a safe haven for those fleeing persecution. this is fresh in many minds, the influx of refugees from syria that became a political point of tension. some 20,000 were settled in the uk, a similar scheme is expected for afghanistan. there is no detail yet. other countries have pledged to take thousands

this is a resistance forming in the north with massoud and sale. look, they host isis-k.e an unfettered sanctuary of global terror connection, and we're losing our sanctuary on the ground that took us 20 years to build. and that's what i worry about. i hope people will listen to paul wolf wit's recommendation, that president biden make a finding to conduct clandestine operations but with dod support, and let's keep this network alive. neil: but you can't let folks know where you are, right? and that does, it's a lot more efficienting if you have u.s. dod support. but for the time being, and you know far more about this than i do, colonel, it doesn't look like that will be forthcoming. does that worry you? >> it does, for sure, because, you know, with our little group, our little group are combat veteran volunteers. we have day jobs and we're business owners, but we know how to do this, and we've already proven. we've gotten several hundred to safety already, and we're shifting to recovery right now. it's going to happen. we're going to honor this promise, we're going to m

massoud's son is putting together a new northern alliance still fighting.country? ainsley: back here at home the pentagon is offering mental health resources to any veteran who served in average. now they are wondering what was all this for? if we are going right back to where we were 20 years ago, why did we lose our limbs? why did we i give up our lives. brian: these people are for the government the gutless ghani who left the country. the vice president stepped up to put out audio recording yesterday i'm in charge. i'm not giving up. if you really think that the taliban are preferred by the people, you are not paying attention. steve: well, ainsley, to your point, you started to talk a little bit about how, you know, there are so many people who are heart broken about what is going on there we have been talking to gold star families about, you know, they lost someone over there now it's like we put 20 years into it, and we are pulling out. and what do we have? there are some concerns that the pentagon, they are worried about the mental health of the mari