Taliban Responded to US in Unforgettable Manner: Zabihullah Mujahid to Iranian TV
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Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid accuses the United States of providing the appropriate conditions for the Kabul Airport attacks.
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Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban's main spokesman, accused Sunday the United States of providing the appropriate conditions for the suicide bombings that took place in the vicinity of Kabul Airport.
Zabihullah said, "We were able to respond to Washington in an unforgettable manner that will make them never return to Afghanistan in the future," during an interview for the official Iranian TV.
The senior spokesman saw that the United States will not be able to meddle in the internal affairs of other countries from now on, stressing that they will have to resort to diplomacy in the future.
Mujahid asserted that the United States has no right to use the Afghan airspace to conduct military operations. He also expressed optimism over the United States forces departing Afghanistan in two days, seeing the forces remaining in Afghanistan as a "red line."
On Saturday, during an interview for Reuters, Mujahid condemned the US raid that killed two ISIS militants after the suicide bombing that shook the Kabul Airport on Thursday. He described the matter as a "flagrant violation of the Afghan territories."
In a similar vein, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the United States and its allied officials have begun holding talks with each other as well as the Taliban. The talks were over how to wield influence in Afghanistan after the West leaves the country, as well as how to provide security around the Kabul airport during the evacuations.
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan started in May, almost 20 years after it led its military invasion in 2001, under the pretext of combatting Al-Qaeda, following the 9/11 attacks.
