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Blinken: Taliban violated Doha agreement by sheltering Al-Zawahiri

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 2 Aug 2022 08:46
3 Min Read

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the US accuses the Taliban of breaching the Doha agreement, which his country fails to abide by.

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  • Blinken: Taliban violate Doha agreement by sheltering Qaeda's Zawahiri.
    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

The Taliban breached the Doha Agreement "grossly" by harboring Al-Qaeda's top leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday.

President Joe Biden claimed on Monday that the US killed Al-Zawahiri in an airstrike in Afghanistan over the weekend, the heaviest blow to the terrorist group since its founder, Osama bin Laden, was slain in 2011.

"In the face of the Taliban’s unwillingness or inability to abide by their commitments, we will continue to support the Afghan people with robust humanitarian assistance and to advocate for the protection of their human rights, especially of women and girls," Blinken said in a statement.

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In a similar context, the Afghan Foreign Minister of the Taliban, Amir Khan Muttaqi, affirmed earlier that the United States failed to abide by the provisions of the Doha agreement it had signed with the group.

Muttaqi pointed out that some Taliban officials are still on the blacklist, and instead of cooperating with the movement, sanctions have been imposed on its members.

The Afghan Minister explained that the Doha agreement stipulated that the "prisoners of the Islamic Emirate would be released gradually within a few days," in addition to removing officials of the Islamic Emirate from the blacklist, however, he said that none has happened so far. 

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Moreover, a day after the US withdrew its troops through Kabul’s airport, US President Joe Biden defended his decision to end his country’s war on Afghanistan, which is currently controlled mostly by the Taliban. The US President revealed that the two-decade war had an estimated daily cost of $300 million on his country, without mentioning the human costs. 

On September 11, 2001, four hijacked commercial airplanes carried out “suicide attacks” against targets in the US, American media reported. 

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Of the four, two airplanes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. The third airplane hit the US Pentagon near Washington, D.C., while the fourth airplane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

As a result of these attacks, 2,753 people were killed during the 9/11 incidents. Then-US President George W. Bush revealed that a terrorist organization called Al-Qaeda was responsible for the attack. Bush then declared the so-called “global war on terror,” attacking and taking in whoever the US did not like, be they involved or not, breaching every humanitarian law and calling on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan to turn in all Al-Qaeda authority and give the US full access to the organization’s training camps, or “they will share in their fate.”

The claimed "war on terror" was used as a pretext by the US to occupy Afghanistan and establish military presence throughout the country with operations targeting militants and civilians alike. As the years go by, US involvement in human atrocities in Afghanistan continues to be exposed. 

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