The presence of the chief of Al-Qaida in the middle of Kabul revealed the persistent proximity between the new masters of Afghanistan and the terrorist organization, in defiance of the commitments made vis-à-vis the international community.
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The Sherpur district, in the center of Kabul, has been inaccessible since Tuesday August 2, in the morning. A few hours earlier, the American president, Joe Biden, welcomed an operation having killed the chief of Al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, during a drone strike, which occurred on Sunday, July 31, around 6 in the morning, Kabul time. On Monday evening, the American secretary of state, Antony Blinken, put the new Kabul masters at the foot of the wall, adding that by “hosting” this man, the Taliban had “roughly raped the Doha’s agreement”. p>
concluded in 2020 with the aim of a total withdrawal of the Americans from Afghanistan, this agreement forces the Taliban to ensure that Afghan territory does not become a refuge for terrorists. The presence of the right arm of Bin Laden in the center of Kabul underlines the prolonged isolation of the Taliban in the world while the latter are looking for international recognition a few days from the first anniversary of their return to power, on the 15th August.
Tuesday, on the main road that leads to the strike site, some Taliban soldiers, watching for all passage, are on the nerves. “Go up in your car and go through here!” They launch to journalists, brandishing their weapons. In the streets around the targeted house, the Taliban in civilian clothes monitor the situation. The merchants prefer to say that they were not present at the time of the attack. “I heard explosions on Sunday morning, but I was at home. We don’t know more,” said a young man working in a grocery store. A few hours earlier, the Taliban fighters went to see one of his colleagues, asking him questions about what he could see on the day of the strike.
neighbor of the chief of the police Taliban
In Kabul, the opulent district of Sherpur is known for its villas on several floors and at the ostentatious facades. For the past twenty years, it housed senior leaders of the Old Regime, seats from international humanitarian organizations and the office of certain media. After the fall of Kabul, on August 15, 2021, Taliban chefs settled in the abandoned villas. The house targeted on July 31 was in particular close to that of the Taliban police chief in Kabul, Mawli Hamza.
Sunday morning, after the news of the explosion was broadcast by Internet users, the Taliban authorities tried to minimize the incident by explaining that “an empty house” had been targeted by a rocket, without There are victims to deplore. Finally, Tuesday, after the American announcement, the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, pointed out the United States who, with this strike, had violated the Doha’s agreement. “This strike, he explained in a press release, is the rehearsal of the vain actions of the last twenty years”, reference to the war that the United States carried out against the Taliban, between 2001 and 2021.
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