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How did US intelligence get Afghanistan so wrong?

19 August 2021

7:51 AM

19 August 2021

7:51 AM

It may well go down as the understatement of the year. In a quite extraordinary address to the nation after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the US President made this admission:

‘The truth is this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. So what’s happened? Afghanistan’s political leaders gave up and fled the country.

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