Taliban to ask Qatar to help run Kabul airport

[Uncle Joe]

Source: The Jerusalem Post

The Taliban will ask Qatar for technical assistance in operating Kabul airport, Qatari based Al Jazeera news channel reported on Friday citing a source in the Islamist movement.

The Taliban have asked Turkey for technical help to run the airport after next Tuesday's deadline for all foreign military forces to pull out of Afghanistan, an ultimatum they say applies equally to Turkish troops.

Earlier today, two officials told Reuters Turkey will not help run the airport after NATO's withdrawal unless the movement agrees to a Turkish security presence, after deadly attacks outside the airport highlighted the perils of any such mission.

Read more: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/taliban-to-ask-qatar-to-help-run-kabul-airport-677917

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I believe Qatar will accept the offer to run Afghanistan's airport in Kabul.

[IronLionZion]

1. Of course America's loyal ally will help the Taliban

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terrorism

Qatar was in diplomatic crisis with it's neighbors for the last 4 years

[DetlefK]

2. Makes sense. After all, Qatar is funding ISIS to this very day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_ISIL

The State of Qatar has long been accused of acting as a conduit for the flow of funds to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. While there is no proof that the Qatari government is behind the movement of funds from the gas-rich nation to ISIL, it has been criticized for not doing enough to stem the flow of financing. Private donors within Qatar, sympathetic to the aims of radical groups such as al-Nusra Front and ISIL, are believed to be channelling their resources to support these organisations.[37][38] According to the U.S. Treasury Department, a number of terrorist financiers have been operating in Qatar. Qatari citizen Abd al Rahman al Nuaymi has served as an interlocutor between Qatari donors and leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). Nuaymi reportedly oversaw the transfer of US$2 million per month to AQI over a period of time. Nuaymi is also one of several of Qatar-based al-Qaeda financiers sanctioned by the U.S.Treasury in recent years. According to some reports, U.S. officials believe that the largest portion of private donations supporting ISIS and al-Qaeda-linked groups now comes from Qatar rather than Saudi Arabia.[39]

In August 2014, a German minister Gerd Müller accused Qatar of having links to ISIL, stating "You have to ask who is arming, who is financing ISIS (ISIL) troops. The keyword there is Qatar". Qatari foreign minister Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah stated: "Qatar does not support extremist groups, including [ISIL], in any way. We are repelled by their views, their violent methods and their ambitions."[40][41][42][43]
Further information: Response of Saudi Arabia to ISIL

Website The Daily Beast in June 2014 accused wealthy donors in Saudi Arabia and Qatar of having funded ISIL in the past.[44][45] Iran and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have accused the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar of funding the group.[46][44][47] Ahead of the pro-Iraq, anti-ISIL conference held in Paris on 15 September 2014, France's foreign minister acknowledged that a number of countries at the table had "very probably" financed ISIL's advances.[48] According to The Atlantic, ISIL may have been a major part of Saudi Arabian Bandar bin Sultan's covert-ops strategy in Syria.[49]

[Mawspam2]

3. That's right, the Talaban/ISIS only know how to crash planes.

[orwell]

4. These assholes...

...are so in over their heads.

How do you run a modern, if backward, society when you are mentally living in the 7th century.

[zuul]

5. Can't US forces blow it up on the way out?

Why leave it for those assholes to use?

[Uncle Joe]

7. I don't believe it serves our interests to blow up their airport.

I believe our and their best interests are served if we can somehow work together constructively in some form of peace to create stability in that nation.

The United Nations and NGOs would certainly need air access and there will probably be Americans whether trapped or by choice along with Afghans that helped our troops.

Our "longest war" has been about twenty years over there, the Afghans have been at war for nearly half a century, I know they must be suffering as a nation from some major PTSD.

[Worried2020]

10. " Can't US forces blow it up on the way out? " of course they can

.

The US blows up, assonates by drone, invades, meddles whoever, whenever they want to, etc., etc.

Why the hell do ya think China and Russia (as well as other countries) are beefing up their defences and cooperating with each other more than ever?

Maybe that's why property in Northern Ontario and elsewhere up here is increasing in value methinks.

Many of us wanna get as far away from the border as possible.

Our population is increasing in it's aging, many of us retirees that either cannot, or don't need to work, move North.

I did

W

[EX500rider]

6. So not a lot of air traffic controllers in the Taliban?

Who'd guessed!

[Slammer]

8. If I recall correctly

Qatar was one of only four countries in the world which recognized the former Taliban government in Afghanistan. It'd make sense for them to turn to Qatar for such help.

I don't know if it'd make sense for Qatar to accept.

Last time around, the Taliban didn't have suicide bombers targeting their operations.

[ancianita]

9. This is typical strategic

brotherly Muslim help between Qatar and the new leaders of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

Muslims play good-cop-bad-cop, borrow each other's strengths, imo. In that sense, ISIS-K could very well play a part. Confounding the West is a team effort.

[SunSeeker]

11. The Taliban is finding out governing is not as easy as it looks. nt