Taliban Organizes Anti-Biden Protest with ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ for Slain al-Qaeda ChiefFrances Martel 5 Aug 2022
The Taliban organized large protests on Friday against America and leftist President Joe Biden in response to the U.S. military eliminating al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, last weekend.
Al-Zawahiri, who took over the terrorist organization after the demise of Osama bin Laden, was reportedly living openly in the wealthy Kabul neighborhood of Sherpur for months. The United Nations said in a report shortly before Biden announced the airstrike that it was “likely” that Taliban terrorists were giving al-Zawahiri safe harbor.
Biden announced on Monday that a drone strike had killed al-Zawahiri with minimal property damage and no other casualties while he was on his Sherpur balcony. The Taliban, which took over Afghanistan after Biden broke a Trump-era agreement that would have ended the Afghan War in May, responded to the news by first “strongly condemn[ing]” the airstrike, then claiming that Taliban jihadists “no information” that al-Zawahiri had entered the country or was living in Kabul. Reports citing unspecified U.S. intelligence indicate that, in addition to living conspicuously in the Taliban’s capital city, the terror chief may have been living in a home owned by a senior member of the Taliban- and al-Qaeda-affiliated Haqqani Network.
The Taliban and al-Qaeda are both Sunni jihadist organizations with decades of friendly relations. The Trump-era agreement between the Taliban and Washington, known commonly as the “Doha agreement” after the city it was brokered it, would have required the Taliban to cut all ties to al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
The Afghan government’s Bakhtar News Agency published multiple photos and videos from Kabul, Kandahar, and other major Afghan population centers of large numbers of men convening to condemn the airstrike against Zawahiri. The mobs appear holding up banners with unflattering photos of Joe Biden and chanting anti-American slogans. Bakhtar, which serves as a Taliban mouthpiece, claimed “hundreds of thousands” of people had attended the protests nationwide.
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