Posted on 10/09/2021 8:56:30 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
The Taliban said on Saturday they will not work with the U.S. to contain extremism in Afghanistan.
Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen told The Associated Press the group will independently deal with extremist groups such as the Islamic State.
“We are able to tackle Daesh independently,” Shaheen said, using an Arabic acronym for the group.
The position comes ahead of talks between senior Taliban officials and U.S. officials in Doha, Qatar.
These are the first direct talks the two groups will have since the U.S. evacuated Afghanistan in August, with the U.S. saying the talks are not a sign the Taliban will be recognized by the U.S, according to the AP.
Terrorism has already become an issue for the Taliban, as the group known as Islamic State Khorasan recently claimed a suicide bomber attack on a mosque that killed more than 40 people.
The meetings in Qatar will take place on Saturday and Sunday, and the officials are expected to discuss terrorism and evacuations of more Americans and Afghan allies.
Two senior administration officials told Reuters that Tom West, deputy special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation with the State Department, and Sarah Charles, assistant to the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, are two of the individuals expected to be at the meetings.
However, should the pallets of cash start to arrive they may reconsider.
Oh, all of a sudden it’s “the U.S.” that they won’t work with.
As opposed to “The Biden White House.”
I think the Taliban just said “Let’s Go, Brandon!!”...
The Taliban is “business like and professional”, right Joe?
This whole thing is surreal. Who in the world would expect the Taliban to work with us in the first place? From their point of view, we are infidels who spent 20 years occupying their country.
The Taliban do not want to cooperate with us. But they do want our “aid” money. And you can bet they also want revenge.
Killing infidels is their religion.
Of course they aren’t going to cooperate.
LOL.
LOL!! they ARE the EXTREMISTS!
WTF hasn’t Biden been PUNISHED SOMEWAY for this FIASCO????
Oh, I am surprised...a terrorist group won’t help fight against terrorists?
Gee Biden - if you were so concerned about extremism and gay rights in Afghanistan... you should’ve stayed to enforce your policies.
Surprise, surprise, surprise … not.
I think we should send large delegations of homosexuals to Afghanistan to protest and do stuff like organize drag queen story book hours for Afghan kids.
Only need to buy them one way tickets.
Of course. They’re terrorists.
So are the Democrats, just in a different way.
We are not only infidels....we are STUPID STUPID infidels.
Those people don’t respect weakness. The USA is now run by absolute idiots.
The Taliban will clean-up extremism in their country the same way the government bureaucracy will clean-up corruption in this country. No further explanation needed.
They’re in charge now. The US gave them free reign, along with Bagram Air Base, lots of military equipment, and stranded Americans.
> Those people don’t respect weakness. <
Right you are. There is an old saying. Muslims are either at your throat or at your feet. The entire West is now run by simpletons who have a childlike view of the world.
In such a situation Muslims will not choose to be at our feet.
But we will still give the goat humpers billions.
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