Al Qaeda-affiliated officials help lead Taliban government, UN report finds (Afghanistan)

Washington Examiner ^ | June 12, 2023

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A specialized United Nations team assessed that at least three key leaders in the Taliban's ruling government are “affiliated” or “associated” with the al Qaeda terrorist group in Afghanistan.

The Taliban, which protected al Qaeda before and after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, rapidly took over Afghanistan amid a disastrous U.S. withdrawal in August 2021.

The U.N. Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team said in its June report that “two provincial governors of the Taliban de facto administration,” Qari Ehsanullah Baryal and Hafiz Muhammad Agha Hakeem, “are affiliated with al-Qaeda.” The team added that “another Talib associated with al-Qaeda,” Tajmir Jawad, is the "Deputy Director of the General Directorate of Intelligence.”

The confirmation of al Qaeda-affiliated leaders in the Taliban government comes after President Joe Biden wrongly claimed that al Qaeda was “gone” from Afghanistan a few days after the Taliban takeover in 2021.

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“Al Qaeda has “established new training camps” and “safe houses” across Afghanistan, the U.N. said. “

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I actually forgot all about Al Qaeda, what with ISIS and the Taliban regaining power over Afghanistan. I mistakenly thought we annihilated Al Qaeda, but sadly they are back.

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Surprise! Not.

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“The new report assessed that, since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, senior al Qaeda leaders such as Mohamed Abbatay likely traveled between Afghanistan and Iran, and one unnamed country reported that the “de facto leader” of al Qaeda, Saif al Adel, had “traveled from his base” in Iran to Afghanistan and then back again in November 2022”

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So Biden created a terrorist state, how nice.

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The Taliban is Al Qaeda. The Taliban means “the school”. It's job is to indoctrinate Jihadi terrorists in Radical Islam and to train them in the arts of international terror and to organize and direct them in their home countries once they are trained and have returned home. Al Qaeda means “the base”, ie the cadres of indoctrinated and well trained Jihadi who are the vanguard of world wide Islamic Jihad

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“The new report assessed that, since the Taliban takeover in August 2021”

Correction. “Since the Biden surrender to the Taliban”