The United States went to war in Afghanistan with one objective: the liberation of the country from the threat of al-Qaida a few weeks after the group killed nearly 3,000 people on 9/11. Now, after losing nearly 20 years of fighting in which more than 3,500 US and coalition lives, President Donald Trump is driving US forces withdraw signed on the back of a shaky peace deal with the Taliban. But a United Nations report released on Monday shows the Islamic militant group failed is one of the central principles of the comprehensive agreement – which would break ties with Al Qaeda – win big foreign policy undermine Trump who seeks re-election in November. Al-Qaeda has released 400 to 600 employees working in 12 Afghan provinces and operates fields in the eastern part of the country, training, according the relationship Friday. UN experts, drawing on their research from interviews with members of the United Nations, they think including its intelligence and security services as well as armed and regional officials wagons, say the Taliban has a double play with consultation played administration Trump with senior leaders of al-Qaeda during his 16 months of peace talks with US officials and al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri soothing, among other things, that the Taliban would be the terrorist group “their ties historical honor. ” The authors of the UN report are pessimistic the Taliban live up to their end of the peace agreements, including measures for the implementation of anti-terrorism against al-Qaida and implementation to achieve commitments talks with Afghan leaders for a ceasefire permanent. “Early indications are that many, if not provide all of these goals will prove challenging”, says the annual report to the United Nations Security Council, released Monday by the analytical support teams and monitoring the UN sanctions. This is not what he has promised that the Administration Trump, the American public and US lawmakers. The agreement signed in Doha, Qatar, February 29, the Taliban has to say “about the use of the soil to prevent Afghanistan from groups or individuals against the security of the US and its allies.” Secretary Mike Pompeo went even further in March that with al-Qaeda, “the Taliban now have the rest done.” “They said they are not terrorists allow thrust on someone to be, including the United States from Afghanistan,” he told CBS’s Face the Nation one day after the agreement was signed, adding that officials met in Doha ” It agreed that they would break this relationship, and that they would work with us to destroy, to deny the resources and have al-Qaeda from this place. ” that did not take place, and the Taliban have instead promoted its relationship with the track group 9/11, according to experts of the United Nations, raises questions about whether the administration rushed known for a politically expedient agreement that negotiators it was destined failure. The US-Taliban deal should Trump triumphant provide its end with a nearly 19-conflict-turned-bog, who in addition to a few thousands of lives, cost taxpayers US $132 billion dollars. Trump welcomed the agreement as an opportunity to “put our people back home,” adding that “all tired of war.” Despite assurances Trump, the report’s findings echo the concerns that the US military chief has even aired. US Central Command General Frank McKenzie gave a bleak assessment of the ability of the Taliban with the deal in a testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee to follow through to March. It was explicitly skeptical about the commitment to break the Taliban with al-Qaeda. “This is something (the Taliban) have to prove it was not yet proven,” he said on March 13 in about two weeks after the signing of the peace. “We do not trust them that we do not need to look like they have, we have nothing they say they believe. We need to watch what they do. Continued to decline,” Central Command and the National Security Council and US forces in Afghanistan review not He responded to requests for comment. Monday ‘after the release of the report, rejected the US Zalmay Khalilzad sent the report of the United Nations, and described the break Taliban with al-Qaeda to criticize as work in progress, lower withdrawal of US troops could slow. “The Taliban have made … specific obligations in relation to al-Qaeda and other groups that could threaten the United States,” in relation to training, recruitment and fundraising, Khalilzad told a small group of journalists phone. “The work is not finished on this, but … been progressed. And our future steps in terms of shock absorption and its obligations to deliver depends on the Talibs.” He would not say if he deliberately current Taliban-al -Qaeda speaks during his negotiations. A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry on Friday before intercourse doubt occupation release, he said on the validity of the UN report and that Afghanistan’s security environment, where “we base our understanding of United Nations experts on strong information, can provide a complete picture. “the official on condition of anonymity he said that Trump discuss the administration’s response to the report. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen also conclusions of the United Nations rejected report denying prior to publication, the Taliban assigned to a high-level al-Qaeda, have safe and secure refuge cooperation, and group exercises fields permitted in the eastern part of the country for the execution. “I totally refute the report, is to destroy an unfounded accusation directed the peace process. We are fully committed to the agreement and the obligations therein- no one be allowed to use the land of Afghanistan against any other country,” Shaheen He said on Friday exchanged a series of text messages from Doha with time. The results of the United Nations is not the first red flag that the much-vaunted peace deal does not work. The agreement aims to discuss with Afghan leaders a future government the gradual withdrawal of all US troops in exchange for the Taliban is a cease-fire on US troops and sit. These intra-Afghan talks were delayed over a dispute on an exchange of prisoners between the Taliban and the Afghan government, the United States put in his contract that Afghan officials say they never agreed. Taliban attacks against Afghan forces have continued almost unabated. However, the US military has accelerated the pace of its withdrawal of troops, now down from 13,000 in February to about 8,600 soldiers last, months, weeks ahead of schedule, according to Reuters. This is mainly because American soldiers home their already taken Afghanistan crown pandemic, but the United States is to present within the next week options to be sent faster extract Trump to protect the military leaders planning or so, according to two sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the next meeting. One of those options involves a total withdrawal of US forces before the US presidential elections in November, according to the New York Times. A sudden US withdrawal could leave Afghanistan for a return to the status quo led in the years before 9/11, applied as al-Qaeda, the 2001 attacks in the country in the northeast mountains. The UN report said the Taliban remains to return Afghanistan to a harsh form of Islamic rule focused and tactics used to delay the negotiations between the Afghan parties to get the maximum number of US troops to withdraw, which would give them more power, Afghan government to threaten, the study authors say. “The Taliban have already begun, the United States accused of dishonesty if it provides close air support for Afghan forces while under Taliban attack.” They found that the “relationship between the Taliban, particularly the Haqqani network and al-Qaeda al-Qaeda offered further suggest based on friendship, a history of common struggle, the ideological sympathy and mixed marriages” and that the Taliban still safe, as it did in its territory before 9/11. In 1990, Bin Laden does not Bayat ‘, promised a threat to the US al-Qaeda or allegiance to Taliban leader Mullah Omar to explain the’ ’emir of the faithful’ and the Taliban in return gave the safe haven group in West Point at the center to combat terrorism. According to the 9/11 report, as US ambassador Bill Richardson United States of the United Nations, a Taliban delegation in Kabul led to meet in April of 1998, they said they did not know where Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was and that in any case “Bin Laden was not a threat to the United States” – a refrain similar to those now engaged with US officials the Taliban. Today, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of al-Qaeda has again Bayat to Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada promised by Thomas Joscelyn of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Long War Journal. Akhundzada has not publicly acknowledged that the promise Joscelyn adds legitimacy to grant tacit goal of al-Qaeda is to create a global rule, based on an extremist militant interpretation of Islam. to keep the business of the US-Taliban, Akhundzada will have “the commitment of al-Qaeda allegiance to publicly renounce”, and then remove the imprimatur of the Taliban in this bloody global campaign. “Until now (Akhundzada) did not,” said Joscelyn. Taliban spokesman Shaheen insists that Akhunzada lack of public recognition of the pledge is enough to show the Taliban breaks with al-Qaeda. “Neither our current director nor our former leaders accepted their loyalty. And ‘enough, and is a clear demonstration of our commitment to what we say.” Shaheen stressed the fact that the images of their media voice of Jihad Taliban Outlet, a statement of acceptance of promises al-Zawahiri in 2015 the leader of the Haqqani network, another militant group released, deadly attacks against the US coalition forces and has been staged, vice Taliban , Sirajuddin Haqqani. “It ‘concerns about the potential of Afghanistan by disruptive regional security and international groups used to threaten” He rejected any “inflated” that in an opinion piece in the New York Times published days before the US-Taliban deal signed . “It is not in the interests of all groups in Afghanistan to allow our country to kidnap and turn it into a battlefield … .We will be with all other Afghans in partnership measures for the new Afghanistan is sure to be a bulwark of stability, and that no “Despite feels threatened on our soil. these public assurances from the leadership of the Taliban, the UN report said that the Taliban continued their messaging without compromise to its base, the return of a promising Islamic emirate. It has stepped up attacks against Afghan forces and prepared for more, while carefully avoiding attacks on US troops, the report said, which could sink the peace agreement and keep American troops in the country longer. The group is “internally disciplined enough to be a formidable fighting force”, making shared fairly difficult compromise “that she and still achieve their goals by force” with a “significant constituency” the group still believes the report said. With this goal, “Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to discuss during meetings of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, the collaboration in operational planning, training and the provision by the Taliban safe refuge for members of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, “the report says. The Taliban and al-Qaeda have also discussed education “with a common unit of 2,000 armed fighters of cooperation and financed by al-Qaeda”, the key areas of the country will patrol in the future, they say. in person at a meeting between the Taliban and al-Qaeda in 2019 of the top Taliban leader reassured Muhammad Hamza Osama bin Laden, son of bin Laden “that the Islamic Emirate would not break its historical links with Al-Qaeda for any price” . (In was in September 2019 said the White House Hamza bin Laden killed in a “US anti-terrorist operation”, but no date for its published death.) Al-current leader Qaeda al-Zawahiri met with members of the network Haqqani in February 2020 to discuss with him “in agreement with the United States and the peace process,” the report said. Joscelyn says al-Qaida remains a threat to the United States, and the fidelity of the Taliban, also extends to other subsidiaries of the group, including Yemen al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which the FBI and Justice Department to recent NPD behind had been communicated to the deadly attack on US soldiers in Pensacola air station in Florida, on December 6, the FBI said AQAP in constant contact with the Saudi air Force Mohammed Alshamrani agent who shot and killed three people at the base, where he was received training. FBI Director Christopher Wray told reporters on May 18 that Alshamrani, “was not only coordination with (AQAP) for the planning and tactics, helped the organization make the most possible out of his murder. And he continued to confer AQAP said its employees in order before you start shooting very night. “Joscelyn AQAP Taliban vowed in a video in 2016 and revered its current leader Khalid Batarfi, who trained by al-Qaeda in Afghanistan has been. “The Taliban incubated a generation of jihadists, and there is no evidence that they have given up,” he says. If the United States are successfully to honor the Taliban to achieve its promises elimination of al-Qaeda, which could cause a rift between the camps pro and anti-al-Qaeda, the report said. The UN Monitoring Group to create a new group of Taliban rebels in the mainly elderly dissident residing outside of Afghanistan, pursuing brand or waste called peace with the United States, the Hizb-i Islami Vilayet “Islamic Party gouvernement” . A high TIME Afghan officials said that the Afghan security services had followed the formation of the shoot group “come when the Taliban peace continue to fight” the talks agreed and confirmed that it is in their assessment, in many parts of the country, al-Qaeda and the Taliban “inextricably linked.” the official spoke anonymously to discuss sensitive security issues. It was collected, while the data of the report only in mid-March, in close collaboration between the Taliban and al-Qaeda, no visible change since then, said a senior Western official familiar with the matter, speaking anonymously to share confidential assessments. Another sign of the unwillingness of the temperament most other activities Taliban militant groups – except his enemy, ISIS Khorasan – is their inability administration Trump located two Americans still missing in the country to help. Navy veteran Mark Frerichs was suspected by elements of the Haqqani network in Afghanistan on January 31 and Paul Overby was kidnapped kidnapped in 2014. “The fact that they continued to deny involvement or knowledge of the case Frerichs has another hit on its credibility as anti-terrorism partner, “a senior administration official tells TIME, private frustrations Trump anonymous administration to negotiate with the Taliban talking. Long-time consultant and observer of the military effort in Afghanistan, the United States say that the Taliban have nothing familiar to protect the security of the US must show later that US troops have left. “A loss of US forces below the threshold of 8,600 puts at risk the anti-terrorist operation underway in Afghanistan that keep Americans safe from al Qaeda and its external attack plots,” said Kim Kagan, founder and president Institute for the study of war. Without an anti-terror platform in Afghanistan, the United States to pursue is not only incapable of terrorist targets in this country, you will risk his monitoring South Asia, adds Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute, the President Trump fears it is intent on a 100% loss of all possibly before the US troops elections. Unlike Yemen, Libya and other countries where the United States is able to strike from afar, Afghanistan IS no outlet. “We will not be able to al-Qaida pulsing after we left because we can not be there,” says Kagan. “They are not removed from the boat operations from 600 to 700 miles … to drive to a location for this type .If and when we complete our anti-terrorism operations to pull it out in South Asia, to close.” Image Copyright by Olivier Douliery -AFP / Getty Images
Defying Trump sign peace deal, the Taliban continues to support Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, UN report
