`` Situation is serious , '' warns intelligence briefing on Taliban in Afghanistan . `` Security incidents '' up to 500 per week in five years earlier , from up to 500 per week five years earlier . The briefing concludes that the United States and its allies have a key advantage -- the Taliban have not yet reached the level of a popular movement . Detainees say al Qaeda trying to distance themselves from Taliban , the briefing says . CNN obtained the December briefing by top Afghanistan intelligence official in Afghanistan .
`` Situation is serious , '' warns intelligence briefing on Taliban in Afghanistan . `` Security incidents '' up to 500 per week in five years earlier , from up to 500 per week five years earlier . Detainees say al Qaeda trying to distance themselves from Taliban , the briefing says . CNN obtained the December briefing by top Afghanistan intelligence official in Afghanistan .