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.” …

[SMARTY]

Is he talking about the same Taliban we gave billions of dollars worth of weapons and sophisticated weapons systems???

[dead]

LOL! It's almost like we can't trust the Taliban.

[EinNYC]

So what’s this moron gonna do about it? Write them a nasty letter?

[Savage Beast]

Oh Blinken, you are so stupid. The Taliban is laughing at you.

[Chode]

do I really have to say it???

[SaveFerris]

Here are your winnings.

[OKSooner]

Yes, he does, because he’s an idiot.

[SaveFerris]

I’ll have to swipe your image.

My link was broken!

So I went with the E-Trade shocked kid! 😂

[Mark17]

Sounds like he is into circular reasoning. 🤗😀

[Wuli]

What the Taliban really violted was the Biden administration’s own self-made myth making that the Taliban would not do that. If they just read the Quran, and read what they could on the Taliban, they’d understand that the Taliban believe they have a religious duty to lie to the infidel.

[OKSooner]

😁

[dfwgator]

“Just when I thought I was out.....”

[1Old Pro]

Funny, a good kill shot and it backfires on Biden’s “policy” in Afghanistan.

[RinaseaofDs]

Didn’t Zawahiri already die in 2020?

[Pennsyltucky Boy]

Sec. Blicken is without a doubt a master of the obvious.

[BiteYourSelf]

No 💩 Sherlock.🙄

[Olog-hai]

Trump wasn’t there at the time. And who said the Taliban recognizes the agreement anyway, whether Trump’s there or not? Never mind Biden doing his own thing.

[Vision]

What a maroon.

[M Kehoe]

al-Zawahiri was responsible for Sadat’s assassination.

I hope all his virgins look like Helen Thomas.

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[M Kehoe]

Sheesh

I guess we won’t be getting back the $82 billion in equipment Biden left over there?

Squirrel, no blinkin. Nothing to see here.

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