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Blinken: Taliban ‘Grossly Violated’ Agreement With US by ‘Hosting and Sheltering’ Zawahiri
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| August 2, 2022 | 4:13am EDT
| Patrick Goodenough
Posted on 08/03/2022 12:34:51 AM PDT by 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.” …
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posted on
08/03/2022 12:34:52 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
They're gettin' noisy at the kiddie table of diplomacy...
2
posted on
08/03/2022 12:36:08 AM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: Olog-hai
It’s one thing to be an idiot. It’s another thing to publicaly broadcast it to the world.
3
posted on
08/03/2022 12:40:43 AM PDT
by
HYPOCRACY
(This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
To: HYPOCRACY
A mentally ill idiot, to boot.
A good Haavaad non-gendered individual.
4
posted on
08/03/2022 12:45:46 AM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: Olog-hai
LOL. Another invasion to fix it?
To: Olog-hai
"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.
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posted on
08/03/2022 12:49:12 AM PDT
by
clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
To: HYPOCRACY
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?
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posted on
08/03/2022 12:50:14 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
To: Olog-hai
Circle back to Afghanistan?
8
posted on
08/03/2022 1:00:58 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: Olog-hai
Taliban “grossly violated” its 2020 agreement with the United States....
Gee Joe, what to do? Maybe invade again?
9
posted on
08/03/2022 1:01:58 AM PDT
by
Lockbox
(politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
To: Olog-hai; Chode
the Taliban aren't trustworthy?
10
posted on
08/03/2022 1:12:57 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
To: Olog-hai
They trusted the Taliban, but they distrusted American parents at school board meetings.
-PJ
11
posted on
08/03/2022 1:19:03 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: Olog-hai
Well blinken tell them to give back all the military equipment you left there stupid
To: Olog-hai
Biden paid the Taliban to set up al-Zawahiri.
To: Olog-hai
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.
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posted on
08/03/2022 1:42:25 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: Olog-hai
Funny no mention of who ordered the withdrawal.
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posted on
08/03/2022 1:53:02 AM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: McGruff
Circle back to Afghanistan?
/\
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.
16
posted on
08/03/2022 2:04:17 AM PDT
by
cuz1961
(USCGR Veteran )
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posted on
08/03/2022 2:07:56 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Olog-hai
SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE.
18
posted on
08/03/2022 2:34:35 AM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
To: clearcarbon
“The Biden administration “grossly violated” its agreement with the United States electorate by “pulling out of Afghanistan”
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posted on
08/03/2022 3:14:05 AM PDT
by
stanne
To: zeestephen
Biden paid the Taliban to set up al-Zawahiri.Biden is not that clever.
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posted on
08/03/2022 3:17:57 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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