The attack has caused huge embarrassment to the Afghan government, which claims that it has put in place a stringentmechanism for verification and background checks of all those seeking to join the police or the Afghan army, the BBC's Bilal Sarwary reports from Kabul.
He implicitly recognized that "countering the al-Qaeda" narrative is as crucial to the well-being of the U.S. as is any stringent new airport security standard or detection mechanism.