The united states has a pretty long track record of killing sis cad leaders. So we have been able to successfully gather intelligence and acto. Now it's going to be harder because we don't have ground presence. We're not in the same contact. But that's said, there still are intelligence opportunities. Look for an opportunity to do a relatively high profile hit on a senior isis c figure. And say, look, this is vengeance, ah for the deaths of these americans.
The attack outside the Kabul airport on Thursday was perpetrated by an extremist group that doesn't think the Taliban is extreme enough.
This episode was produced by Will Reid and Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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