Taliban members at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 3, 2022.
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Two prime Biden Administration officers met face-to-face with Taliban leaders Saturday for the primary time since July, when al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in an American strike in Kabul, in keeping with a report.
CIA Deputy Director David Cohen and State Division negotiator Tom West met in Doha, Qatar with the Taliban’s head of intelligence, Abdul Haq Wasiq, CNN reported.
The CIA and State Division didn't formally touch upon the assembly.
The US broke off direct talks with Afghanistan’s ruling faction after studying that they'd been harboring al-Zawahiri, the architect of the September 11 assaults, within the Afghan capital for months — a transparent violation of the Doha Settlement, through which the Taliban promised that Afghanistan wouldn't shelter al Qaeda members.
The phobia chief was killed in his luxe Kabul condominium by a US drone strike July 31 — however his presence in Afghanistan drew sharp criticism from Republicans.
“The American individuals have been lied to by President Biden,” charged Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the highest Republican on the Home International Affairs Committee.
“Our chaotic and lethal withdrawal from Afghanistan opened the door for al Qaeda to function freely contained in the nation to conduct exterior operations in opposition to america and our allies once more,” McCaul mentioned.
In August, the White Home halted the switch of $3.5 billion — a few of the Afghan authorities funds held frozen in US banks — to the Taliban as an indication that American belief had been damaged.
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