He is not there to wage jihad within Afghanistan.
“Top Al Qaeda Member Returns to Afghanistan,” by Jack Beyrer, Washington Free Beacon, August 30, 2021:
A top member of al Qaeda and chief aide to Osama bin Laden on Monday returned safely to his home in Afghanistan after years in hiding.
Video Footage shows Dr. Amin al-Haq, the former leader of bin Laden’s elite Black Guard, joined by a heavily armed group of Taliban fighters, entering a town in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province. The province sits between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, making it a growing hotspot for Taliban activity.
Al-Haq is a longtime al Qaeda leader whose Black Guard served as the terrorist group’s “praetorian guard designated to protect Osama bin Laden.” Guard members took a blood oath to defend bin Laden and were highly trained in combat. The 9/11 architect reportedly hand-picked squad leaders—such as al-Haq—for the guard.
Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of Long War Journal, said the video shows increasing ambition from al Qaeda operatives since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan.
“The video of al-Haq is evidence that al Qaeda commanders now feel secure enough to appear publicly in a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan,” Roggio wrote. “The confidence to travel and operate out in the open—in plain sight for the first time in a decade—speaks to the marked change in Afghanistan over the last month.”…
DavidR says
20 years of blood and sweat just flushed down the toilet.
TruthWFree says
The entire Mid East and Muslim world is not worth one drop of American blood unless the effort was to eliminate Islam from the planet forever.
commonsense says
You are 100% correct.
gravenimage says
Afghanistan never could have been civilized by us. These lives and teasure were always wasted, I’m afraid–and this would have been the case if we stayed in Afghanistan another hundred years.
CogitoErgoSum says
Apparently, a blood oath means does not mean what I thought it meant. Shouldn’t he have died defending Osama bin Laden? I guess the oath was signed using Osama’s blood … or maybe some ketchup. He probably couldn’t have made out the difference if they had used mustard.
TruthWFree says
Good observation! 🙂 Now the Al Qaeda’s and ISIS and other “real” Muslims (like Muhammad was) have a country base to operate from. Yes, we will see much more international Islamic Jihad from Afghanistan, I expect.
Infidel says
Why doesn’t Ayman al Zawahiri – if he’s still alive – return there and make a declaration. It’s not like we’ll any more go after him!
Walter Sieruk says
One of jihadist chiefs of al Qaeda who is now returning to Afghanistan to be warmly welcomed by some of the Taliban is an obvious beginning of the reestablishment of that murderous jihadist network in Afghanistan as well as a renewed Taliban , al Qaeda alliance.
This demonic joining of cruel ,violent and deadly Islamic terror groups is , in the long run fated to fail and further those who take part in it will have their vicious jihadist scheming come around and come back down on the hard.
As its been revealed in the Bible “Though they join forces, the wicked shall not go unpunished.”
Proverbs 11:21, [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
It’s no surprise , at all , that this “top dog” of al Qaeda had returned to Afghanistan and will, meet to the Taliban chieftains and all those evil men will ,no doubt form a firm friendship as they wickedly scheme future jihad/ terror murder attacks against America, the State of Israel as well as other nations of the West.
For it only makes sense that those evil men ,fittingly ,do belong together and make a like-minded match.
For as the Bible reads “Can two walk together , unless they are agreed ?” Amos 3:3. [N.K.J.V.]
john smith says
+1
gravenimage says
Al-Qaeda top dog returns to Afghanistan
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Gee, what a shock.
Remember this, from just a few days ago?
“Taliban insists it will not shelter al-Qaeda in Afghanistan”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/23/taliban-qaeda-afghanistan/
I just thought this would take more than a week to be proven false.
Here’s video footage Amin al-Haq being welcomed by the Taliban:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dlh8KEsrc