The assassination puts paid to the Taliban’s insistence it no longer harbours international terrorists
The US drone strike that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on Monday suggests al-Qaeda is back in Afghanistan; the truth is, it never left.
The assassination certainly puts paid to the Taliban’s insistence it no longer harbours international terrorists.
Then US president Donald Trump signed his flawed deal with the Taliban when the extremist group promised in Doha in 2020 to cut ties with the terror group behind the 9/11 attacks.
Nearly 12 months on from the US military’s shambolic withdrawn from Afghanistan, al-Zawahiri’s presence there underlines the fears of many western security experts that without troops on the ground, al-Qaeda would inevitably return.
has concluded that the security situation, particularly in terms of terrorist activity, is worsening.
The violence perpetrated by the local Isis-linked group has captured headlines. However, expert advisers to the UN say the biggest threat posed by Afghanistan under renewed Taliban rule is the return of al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda, they say, is biding its time.
Al-Zawahiri, according to reports at least, moved all his family over to Kabul from Pakistan last month; presumably because he felt right at home, and secure enough to resume producing his propaganda.
The house where al-Zawahiri died was used by senior Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, according to a senior US intelligence officials.
The Haqqani family and the...
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