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Guest post by Bob Unruh
Before 9/11, Al Qaeda's Islamic terrorists used training camps throughout the Middle East and Afghanistan to prepare men for those suicide missions that ultimately cost nearly 3,000 innocent lives.
These camps are often eliminated when the US military goes into that underdeveloped part of the world and eliminates terrorists on sight.
But now, under Joe Biden's policies, they are back in business.
This is not the only blame placed on Biden for terrorism there. When American soldiers were suddenly removed from Afghanistan, the move cost the lives of dozens of Americans, an unknown number of the lives of allies who were working with the United States, and an estimated $80 billion in military goods that went directly to the Taliban, which is the Taliban. – Al-Qaeda ally who took control of Afghanistan by instantly eliminating the elected government.
Some of these weapons have now been traced to other terrorist groups targeting the United States and its military personnel.
It's a report by Just the News that explains that multiple reports have confirmed “the lasting consequences of President Joe Biden's failed withdrawal from Afghanistan and his administration's dealings with the Taliban since then.”
It cited a report by the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team that revealed that Al Qaeda “reconstituted up to eight training camps and five religious training schools known as madrassas on Afghan territory under Taliban rule while also increasing propaganda and recruitment operations.”
The documents accuse that Al-Qaeda continues its presence in Afghanistan under the “auspices” of the Taliban.
This “sponsorship” could perhaps be considered to include some of the billions of dollars the Biden administration has sent to the recognized Afghan government, a terrorist group.
Just The News said the funding went through the United Nations and various global charities.
It was John Sopko, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, who revealed around the same time that the United States had contributed all but $300 million of the $2.9 billion handed over to the Taliban since the withdrawal of forces several years earlier.
“The United States is the largest international donor, having provided approximately $2.6 billion in funding to the United Nations and other NGOs working in Afghanistan since August 2021,” Sopko’s report said. More than $1.7 billion of this funding came from the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support humanitarian activities.
“America is the biggest funder of this thing. U.S. taxpayers are disproportionately on the hook for paying for these activities,” Victoria Coats, former deputy national security adviser, warned in the report.
Congress was not happy with Biden's failures in Afghanistan.
“This administration has a history of providing money to terrorist organizations, giving away $80 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan so the Taliban can walk around with M4s and Black Hawks and all of our equipment. They have a last American agenda,” Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., warned. During an interview with “Just the News, No Noise” TV.
The report stated that the Taliban claims that there is no Al-Qaeda presence in Afghanistan, but this statement contradicts American intelligence sources.
For one thing, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed by US drones in 2022, was living inside the home of a member of the Taliban government at the time.
Reports confirmed that Al Qaeda has established up to eight new training camps in Afghanistan, including four in Ghazni, Laghman, Parwan and Uruzgan provinces, with a new weapons storage base in the Panjshir Valley.
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