Taliban 'Strongly Condemns' Deadly Attack on Kabul Airport - Wasn't us

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The Taliban, which will soon control the security of the Kabul airport after the U.S. ends its mission on Aug. 31, has strongly condemned a deadly terror attack on those waiting outside.

“The Islamic Emirate strongly condemns the bombing of civilians at Kabul airport, which took place in an area where security is in the hands of U.S. forces,” Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted on the official Taliban Twitter account.

U.S. forces had warned citizens and others away from the gates after intelligence suggested that the extremist group ISIS-K, or the Islamic State of Khorasan, were planning attacks on civilians.
ISIS-K is a radical affiliate group to ISIS and separate from the Taliban, an enemy with whom they often spar. ISIS-K was a target of U.S. airstrikes in July and claimed responsibility for six deadly attacks in Kabul in 2016, 18 in 2017, and 24 in 2018.
The group, which preys on Taliban defectors,
believes the Taliban’s view of Islam is “too soft.”

After capturing Kabul, Mujahid said Islamic State groups would not be welcome in the country. “We assure you that we will not let Isis to become active in the country, in the areas under our control,” Mujahid said at a press conference last week. “As for the presence of terrorists from other countries, I completely deny this. There are no terrorists from Central Asia or China in the country. We will prevent them from entering the country.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/taliban-strongly-condemns-deadly-attack-on-kabul-airport?ref=home

[dalton99a]

1. They're like the Bloods and the Crips

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I wouldn't be surprised that a GOP link somehow to this attack is there somewhere, simply

to make Pres. Biden look bad. Money under the table, for anything, anything at all, to make Pres. Biden look bad. I know that this sounds outlandish, but w/ the way republicans are acting now-a-days, who really knows what these people are capable of, especially while they're sickening and killing thousands of Americans w/ zero or ineffective anti-COVID measures, like in TX and FL?

[The Magistrate]

3. I Expect It Was Not Their Doing, Sir

They are doomed to repeat the course of every movement for militant religiousity --- there's always someone more fanaticly pure than you....

[moondust]

4. Right.

And who is in charge of security for Kabul?

Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, a leading Taliban figure currently in charge of security for Kabul...
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Haqqani is still labelled a “global terrorist” by the United States, with a $5m bounty for him issued by the US Treasury Department in February 2011, and he remains on a United Nations terrorist list.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/22/all-afghans-should-feel-safe-under-taliban-says-security-chief

Haqqani network

The all-new-and-improved Taliban.

[Budi]

5. "We assure you that we will not let Isis to become active in the country, in areas under our control

"in areas under our control"..should have read the fine print..
Not our problem. How ya doin America?

I say continue getting as many out as possible & burn that fking place to the ground, now that every Islamic terrorist group has taken up residence

Gdamn you Trump.

[ShazamIam]

6. Was it Erik Prince or Vladimir Putin special mercernaries?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/8iaz6xit26/the-lost-tablet-and-the-secret-documents

[Polybius]

7. It definitely wasn't the Taliban

They want us out by the 31st, this has ISIS written all over it.