Blinken: Taliban ‘Grossly Violated’ Agreement With US by ‘Hosting and Sheltering’ Zawahiri

Cybercast News Service ^ | August 2, 2022 | 4:13am EDT | Patrick Goodenough

[Olog-hai]

The Taliban “grossly violated” its 2020 agreement with the United States by “hosting and sheltering” al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, after President Biden announced that the fugitive terrorist had been killed in a weekend drone strike in Kabul.

Blinken said the Taliban had violated not just the Doha agreement but also its “repeated assurances to the world that they would not allow Afghan territory to be used by terrorists to threaten the security of other countries.”

“They also betrayed the Afghan people and their own stated desire for recognition from and normalization with the international community,” he said. […]

There was no immediate official Taliban response overnight to news of Zawahiri’s death, although Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid Tuesday morning did repost a statement from the previous day, “strongly” condemning the drone strike, without mentioning the target, and calling it a violation by the U.S. of the Doha agreement.

The February 2020 agreement signed between the Taliban and the Trump administration in Doha, Qatar paved the way for the U.S. troop withdrawal and an end to the war.

It included a clear pledge that the Taliban would “not allow any of its members, other individuals or groups, including al-Qaeda, to use the soil of Afghanistan to threaten the security of the United States and its allies.” …

[kiryandil]

They're gettin' noisy at the kiddie table of diplomacy...

[HYPOCRACY]

It’s one thing to be an idiot. It’s another thing to publicaly broadcast it to the world.

[kiryandil]

A mentally ill idiot, to boot.

A good Haavaad non-gendered individual.

[NorseViking]

LOL. Another invasion to fix it?

[clearcarbon]

"The Taliban “grossly violated” its 2020 agreement with the United States by “hosting and sheltering” al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, "

Do'n what comes naturally...no different from Iran.

[Mark17]

It’s one thing to be an idiot. It’s another thing to publicaly broadcast it to the world.

Does this idiot really think we can trust the Taliban?

[McGruff]

Circle back to Afghanistan?

[Lockbox]

Taliban “grossly violated” its 2020 agreement with the United States....

Gee Joe, what to do? Maybe invade again?

[SaveFerris]

the Taliban aren't trustworthy?

[Political Junkie Too]

They trusted the Taliban, but they distrusted American parents at school board meetings.

-PJ

[ballplayer]

Well blinken tell them to give back all the military equipment you left there stupid

[zeestephen]

Biden paid the Taliban to set up al-Zawahiri.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

LOL. How friggin stupid is our diplomatic corps? "The Taliban lied to us!!' Ha ha ha ha ha. No scheisse Sherlock. They were lied to by some subhuman cavemen who practice a religion, whose basic tenet is to lie to infidels.

Good God are these Biden people dopes. After all we know, after all these years of dealing with Mudslum ragheads, they haven't learned a thing, not one damn thing.

[piasa]

Funny no mention of who ordered the withdrawal.

[cuz1961]

Circle back to Afghanistan?
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I guess ukrain wasn’t enough of a midterm boost, gotta whoop us up with an afganistan circle back.

That’s sounds like sloppyJoe alright.

[Gene Eric]

STFU, Blinken. Just STFU

[Brooklyn Attitude]

SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE.

[stanne]

“The Biden administration “grossly violated” its agreement with the United States electorate by “pulling out of Afghanistan”

[Erik Latranyi]

Biden paid the Taliban to set up al-Zawahiri.

Biden is not that clever.