Once once again, they will … witness another 9/11
Khalid Noor
member, member of Afghanistan’s peace working out group
“We have said this very clearly — that the international community, if they repeat the same mistake they did in the past, that the war and … terrorism will reach their gates once again, will reach their cities once again,” stated Noor, who belonged to the Afghan delegation in Qatar that worked out with the Taliban in July 2019.
“And once again, they will … witness another 9/11,” he informed CNBC’s “Capital Connection” onTuesday “It is very important at this point, to be very careful on what to do with the Taliban.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated a brand-new diplomatic objective has actually begun in Afghanistan now that the military operations have actually ended.
“We will remain vigilant in monitoring threats ourselves and will maintain robust counterterrorism capabilities in the region to neutralize those threats if necessary — as we demonstrated in the past few days by striking ISIS facilitators and even threats in Afghanistan, and as we do in places around the world where we do not have military forces on the ground,” Blinken stated.
Taliban and al-Qaeda
Afghanistan is nearly totally managed by the Taliban now, and the Islamist militant group “has never cut off their ties with international terrorist groups” such as al-Qaeda, Noor stated, indicating a video that revealed a close ally of Osama bin Laden back in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden established al-Qaeda, the terrorist company that lagged theSept 11 attacks in 2001 when almost 3,000 individuals were eliminated after pirated planes knocked into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Taliban members collect and make speeches in front of Herat governorate after the conclusion of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, in Herat, Afghanistan on August 31, 2021.
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“That’s just the tip of the iceberg of what will happen in the future,” stated Noor, the child of previous guv of northern Afghanistan’s Balkh province, Atta Mohammad Noor.
A United Nations report this year reached a comparable conclusion– that the Taliban and al-Qaeda “remain closely aligned and show no indication of breaking ties.” The Taliban formerly refuted those claims.
“One of the big myths” in the U.S. and in policymaking circles is that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are not embedded with one another, stated Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
My individuals will stand. We will all return to Afghanistan and we will withstand the Taliban.
“They are as closely allied today as they were in 1990s, perhaps even closer in some ways,” he informed CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” onTuesday “This is very much a victory for al-Qaeda, in addition to the Taliban.”
Afghanistan is a “failed state” which will quickly end up being the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Joscelyn stated, describing the Taliban’s main name for Afghanistan.
Negotiation vs resistance
Noor, who belonged to the previous Afghan federal government’s peace working out group, stated the group wishes to work out with the Taliban to form an “inclusive government”– where different ethnic cultures are represented.
“Obviously I have my doubts on negotiations, but we do not want to force war in the country, that’s why we prepare to negotiate,” he stated without elaborating.
He stated it’s not about power sharing– however about worths, elections, flexibility of expression, flexibility of media and “many other rights that my people have gained” over the last 20 years.
If the Taliban makes the very same errors as they performed in the past, “I can assure you that resistance will take shape,” he stated.
“My people will stand up. We will all go back to Afghanistan and we will resist the Taliban,” he informed CNBC from Dubai.
