Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany’s BND foreign intelligence service, admitted on Thursday to misjudging the speed with which the Taliban took over the Afghan capital Kabul in August 2021. Kahl said that for years the agency had a good read on the situation in Afghanistan, including a firm understanding that the Taliban wanted to establish an “Emirate 2.0.” “What we did not foresee correctly was the script that was played out in the last few centimetres,” he said in regard to the Taliban’s swift advance on Kabul, which came as US and NATO forces were withdrawing from the country. The fact that t…