The international troops have left the country and the Taliban are taking power. The Al-Qaeda terrorist network is celebrating the “Afghan debacle of America”.
The Al-Qaeda terror network has congratulated the Taliban on taking power in Afghanistan and has spoken of a “historic victory” with regard to the US withdrawal from the country.
Al-Qaeda’s “General Command” distributed a two-page message through its Al-Sahab propaganda wing on Tuesday evening. “The Afghan debacle of America and NATO marks the beginning of the end of a dark era of Western domination and military occupation of Islamic countries,” it says. The Afghan people are called upon to trust and support the Taliban.
In 2001, US troops drove the Taliban from Kabul, who had given shelter to members of the terrorist network. Today, according to a UN report from May 2020, al-Qaeda is active in around a third of the Afghan provinces. Relations with the militant Islamist Taliban are therefore still close. In an agreement with the United States in February 2020, the Taliban actually committed to end their cooperation with Al Qaeda.
“We would like to congratulate the Islamic emirate on this historic event, especially (Taliban leader) Haibatullah Achundsada,” said Al-Qaeda. “God has promised us victory and Bush the defeat, we will see which promise will be fulfilled,” the authors write, referring to the former US President George W. September 2001 had ordered.
The Al-Qaeda terror network (“The Base”) was founded in the late 1980s in the Afghan-Pakistani border area and is fighting for an Islamist world order. Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was believed to be the head of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, was killed by a US special unit in Pakistan in 2011. He was succeeded by the Egyptian Aiman al-Zawahiri. In November 2020, there were reports that he died of natural causes.
According to the Soufan Group think tank, al-Qaeda is “immeasurably stronger” today than it was at the time of the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago. The network therefore has 30,000 to 40,000 members worldwide with offshoots in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. Despite many setbacks, after the US withdrawal, al-Qaeda was now able to regain its strength and gain new members in Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda is deeply hostile to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia, despite its similar jihadist ideology.
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