CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: “Pressure is mounting at the Federal Foreign Office: According to Der Spiegel, internal files show that the humanitarian admission program for Afghans following the Taliban's takeover was fraught with serious mishaps and abuse. Security authorities and diplomats warn of a "highly questionable visa program" and a "significantly increased risk of abuse."”

More ominously, the UN team also said that al-Qaeda had “established new training camps” in multiple Afghan provinces and had established “safe houses” in major cities such as Kabul. Fitton-Brown, the former coordinator of U.N. sanctions on the Taliban, told Just the News that “the U.S. is still stuck on this idea that the Taliban can be a counterterrorism partner” but that “there is a moral and practical hazard of trying to do counterterrorism work with the Taliban.”

Fitton-Brown, who is now senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, added that “if you go to the point of embracing allies of al-Qaeda to fight ISIS-K… it’s like treating a cold with a shot of malaria.”