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** 'We Did That': Afghanistan a Year after the US Surrender ([link removed])
Afghanistan is a Terror State, Al Qaeda Is Thriving
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by Guy Millière • September 9, 2022 at 5:00 am
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* Other men... may prove even more harmful than Zawahiri. Before Zawahiri was chosen, for instance, Saif al-Adel, a former Egyptian Special Forces officer, was appointed its provisional "caretaker." His name is often cited as that of the probable next leader of al-Qaeda.
* In addition to al-Qaeda's having a new base in Afghanistan, the terrorist group also appears to have had, for years, a significant base in Iran.
* By lifting many of these sanctions, the Biden administration has re-empowered the mullahs to finance the Islamic groups they have funded in the recent past. Al-Qaeda is clearly one of them.
* After the death of Zawahiri, the Biden administration issued a press release blaming the Taliban for having allowed "Afghan territory to be used by terrorists to threaten the security of other countries". Did members of the Biden administration actually expect anything else from the Taliban and the Haqqani network?
* The Biden administration also blamed the Taliban for not respecting the Doha agreement , a peace deal between the US and the Taliban.... Did the Biden administration honestly expect ruthless terrorists to honor the agreement without the US showing at least a little determination to use force if necessary?
* Over the past twelve months, the Biden administration has sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Afghanistan, supposedly for humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people. How, could one not know, however, that most of the funds were embezzled by the Taliban and used to finance the Taliban regime and its terrorist activities?
* The Biden administration almost never talks about Iran's financing Islamic terrorism and never mentions that the Biden administration's lifting sanctions on the regime has contributed to financing the very terrorist organizations that the US claims to be fighting.
* US Special Representative for Iran Robert Malley continues to negotiate with the Iranian regime. Worse: Malley is not even the one doing the negotiating. Negotiating with Iran on behalf of America is -- Russia! The Americans are not even allowed in the room.
* Moreover, all this is taking place while the US is half-heartedly helping Ukraine to defend itself against a ruthless Russian scorched earth onslaught. Malley nonetheless persists in separating the Biden administration's desire to sign a new disastrous nuclear deal from the regime's terrorist activities.
* A year after the Biden administration abandoned Afghanistan to the Taliban and the Haqqani network, Afghanistan is back to being a terrorist state. It hosts and supports al-Qaeda while giving it the opportunity to organize terrorist attacks from Afghan soil.
* The US, for its part, not only ran from Afghanistan a year ago, it also ran from its last watchtower in Central-South Asia, and, by not even leaving a small residual force as strongly advised, abandoned countless people be slaughtered and enabled the country to be plunged into economic collapse, chaos and starvation.
* Iran, on the other hand, has been significantly strengthened. It supports al-Qaeda and now serenely threatens the United States. On August 1, the mullahs sent a message saying that Iran is building nuclear warheads that could turn New York into "hellish ruins".

August 15, 2022 saw the first anniversary of the takeover of the presidential palace in Kabul by the Taliban. It was a dismal anniversary. What happened in the past year throughout the country were countless atrocities committed by the Taliban. Pictured: Taliban fighters stand on a US-supplied Humvee military vehicle that they captured in Herat, Afghanistan on August 13, 2021. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

July 31^st 2022, Kabul. Ayman al-Zawahiri is killed by an American drone strike. His death is described as a victory against Islamic terrorism and a success for the Biden administration. Zawahiri was an Islamic terrorist, head of al-Qaeda; his death was good news. America's intelligence services showed they still could obtain precise intelligence in hostile countries and strike enemies of the United States wherever they are. Was the elimination of Zawahiri, however, really a victory against Islamic terrorism?

The US military took out Osama bin Laden, founder of al-Qaeda, in 2011 raid in Pakistan, and brought back to the US many documents to analyze the operational capacity of the terrorist organization and its various plans for attacks, many of which, thanks to that information, may have been thwarted.

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