{"id":3410,"date":"2021-05-03T05:33:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2021-05-03T05:33:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:33:22","slug":"biden-says-us-will-disrupt-any-threat-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=3410","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says US Will Disrupt Any Threat from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

(TOLO News): \u201cAs we bring to an end America\u2019s longest war and draw down the last of our troops from Afghanistan, al Qaeda is greatly degraded there,” Biden said. \u201cBut the United States will remain vigilant about the threat from terrorist groups that have metastasized around the world. We will continue to monitor and disrupt any threat to us that emerges from Afghanistan.\u201d He said that ten years ago, he joined President Obama and members of US national security team to “watch as our military delivered long-awaited justice to Osama bin Laden.\u201d \u201cIt is a moment I will never forget\u2014the intelligence professionals who had painstakingly tracked him down; the clarity and conviction of President Obama in making the call; the courage and skill of our team on the ground,\u201d he said. \u201cIt had been almost ten years since our nation was attacked on 9\/11 and we went to war in Afghanistan, pursuing al Qaeda and its leaders. We followed bin Laden to the gates of hell\u2014and we got him. We kept the promise to all those who lost loved ones on 9\/11: that we would never forget those we had lost, and that the United States will never waver in our commitment to prevent another attack on our homeland and to keep the American people safe,\u201d he added. Al-Qaeda not ‘completely’ uprooted in Afghanistan\u00a0<\/strong>The Afghan government says that the roots of the network are still alive in Afghanistan and the group still poses a threat to the country and the world and is collaborating with the Taliban. But the Taliban has rejected any type of relations with al-Qaeda. The US presence in Afghanistan over the last 20 years was due to the existence of al-Qaeda. Biden last month said the US has achieved its objectives in the Afghanistan war. \u201cRight now, al-Qaeda and Talib are not two different ideologic topics; they are beyond that as they have intermarried within their families,\u201d NDS chief Ahmad Zia Saraj said last week. The question that arises is how can al-Qaeda pose a threat to Afghanistan and the world while its leader was killed ten years back? \u201cAl-Qaeda was not owned by bin Laden,\u201d said Atiqullah Amarkhil, a former military officer. \u201cAl-Qaeda is still active in Afghanistan and anyone who says that we have eliminated al-Qaeda–they are lying.\u201d The Afghan government sees the Taliban\u2019s ties with al-Qaeda as a key challenge in the way of the peace process. \u201cEven though the Taliban has agreed with the US to cut ties with al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, al-Qaeda is still fighting among the Taliban,\u201d said Rahmatullah Andar, spokesman for National Security Council. Meanwhile, Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said Saturday the often-fractured Afghan political leadership must unify in its peace talks with the Taliban or risk more bitter fighting as the US and NATO withdraws, AP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(TOLO News): \u201cAs we bring to an end America\u2019s longest war and draw down the last of our troops from Afghanistan, al Qaeda is greatly degraded there,” Biden said. \u201cBut the United States will remain vigilant about the threat from terrorist groups that have metastasized around the world. We will continue to monitor and disrupt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}