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Taliban say they won't work with US to contain extremism in Afghanistan
The Hill ^ | 10/09/21 | LEXI LONAS

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; associatedpress; extremism; fxxkjoebiden; islamicstate; letsgobrandon; lexilonas; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; suhailshaheen; taliban; thehill; theshill
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To: Leaning Right
This whole thing is surreal...

Concocting such fantasies goes hand in glove with pandering to lunatic base of the Democrat party. This is no different than Merrick Garland accusing school board critics of being "domestic terrorists".

21 posted on 10/09/2021 9:48:00 AM PDT by LuxAerterna
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To: American Number 181269513

But, but, Bye-Done assured me that the Taliban were reasonable men who would help us! All those Americans killed by the Taliban in the past, well, that was just a misunderstanding. C’mon, man. /s


22 posted on 10/09/2021 10:00:33 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: American Number 181269513

Routs have consequences...


23 posted on 10/09/2021 10:17:45 AM PDT by CDB ("Critical Race Theory" is the best." "I use it all the time"--Adolf Hitler's secret e-mails)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Umm, expecting the Taliban to reign in any sort of extremism is like expecting a heroin addict help you curb meth.


24 posted on 10/09/2021 10:23:17 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: American Number 181269513

Butt, butt, butt........


25 posted on 10/09/2021 10:23:23 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: American Number 181269513

What’s the matter? Did someone forget to say ‘Pretty Please’?


26 posted on 10/09/2021 10:30:27 AM PDT by LibertyWoman (Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: American Number 181269513

What a shock!


27 posted on 10/09/2021 10:34:35 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: American Number 181269513

Say it ain’t so, Joe!?
Dumb asses to believe or even hope to believe the taliban.


28 posted on 10/09/2021 10:35:56 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: American Number 181269513

As long as the extremism and violence all happens inside Afghanistan, who cares? If Joe and company want to start that occupation again, they can start by sending the Cheneys to wage the war. After, of course, they take special sniper-bullet-dodging courses from Hillary.


29 posted on 10/09/2021 10:37:36 AM PDT by Bernard (The very best scientific articles always contain this phrase: “My personal intuition has been…”)
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To: Steely Tom
As opposed to “The Biden White House.”

You think they would have worked with a Trump White House?

30 posted on 10/09/2021 10:39:31 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Leaning Right
And you can bet they also want revenge.

They have been in the "Revenge" mode since the 6th century. Old news.

31 posted on 10/09/2021 10:46:12 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: American Number 181269513

Now hang on - The Most Popular President In History told us that these guys were businesslike and reasonable. Maybe we should just send them more money.


32 posted on 10/09/2021 10:50:37 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: American Number 181269513

ISIS is already attacking the Taliban.


33 posted on 10/09/2021 10:51:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: American Number 181269513
How disappointing ...

What could possibly have gone wrong ...

34 posted on 10/09/2021 10:53:55 AM PDT by x
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To: American Number 181269513
"Taliban say they won't work with US to contain extremism in Afghanistan"

Shocking!
Who could have possibly imagined that this would happen?
Snicker...

35 posted on 10/09/2021 11:11:20 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: American Number 181269513

Wait, you mean this isn’t from the Babylon Bee?


36 posted on 10/09/2021 11:35:52 AM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Skywise
"Gee Biden - if you were so concerned about extremism and gay rights in Afghanistan... you should’ve stayed to enforce your policies."

“Let’s Go Brandon!”

37 posted on 10/09/2021 11:44:51 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Lockdowns will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failure in modern history! Cui bono?)
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To: American Number 181269513

Maybe if Joe says “pretty please,” they’ll come around.


38 posted on 10/09/2021 11:45:37 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: American Number 181269513

Did the US government really ask the Taliban to help “contain extremism”? Clown world.


39 posted on 10/09/2021 11:49:30 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: SaxxonWoods

Joe told the Taliban guys
“We handled our border crisis and it’s a thing of the past with a pathway to citizenship, we stopped the temporary inflation from a few months ago, we handled the peaceful and measured exit of people who wanted to leave Afghanistan as if it were just a busy holiday weekend at one of our airports and we convinced people to volunteer for vaccinations so now Covid is a thing of the past in the US. So work with us now in your country.”

Taliban: “Uh, no thanks, pal. We’ll go it alone.”


40 posted on 10/09/2021 11:51:19 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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