2023-04-26 21:07:27
VMaybe the timing wasn’t accidental. While several Afghan opposition politicians had met in Vienna in the past few days to discuss an alliance against the ruling Taliban, the government in Washington confirmed completely different news from Afghanistan: the Taliban had killed the planner of the Kabul airport attack in the summer of 2021 said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. At that time, the local branch of the “Islamic State” ISKP had killed 170 Afghans and 13 Americans at the height of the international evacuation mission. Now the Taliban have sent a clear signal as to who has the ultimate say in Afghanistan and who alone is capable of effectively fighting the ISKP terrorists.
In fact, the Taliban are firmly in the saddle in Afghanistan. At the meeting in Vienna, the leader of the “National Resistance Front”, Ahmad Massoud, referred to the repression of the Islamists and advocated closer cooperation between the opposition in order to find a political solution for Afghanistan. But there is little hope that the Taliban opponents abroad could seriously endanger the rulers in Kabul.
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