Two top Biden Administration officials met face-to-face with Taliban...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
leaders Saturday for the first time since July, when al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as
the real brains of the outfit.Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
was killed in an American strike in Kabul, according to a report.
CIA Deputy Director David Cohen and State Department negotiator Tom West met in Doha, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
with the Taliban’s head of intelligence, Abdul Haq Wasiq, CNN
...formerly the
Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
reported.
The CIA and State Department did not officially comment on the meeting.
The US broke off direct talks with Afghanistan’s ruling faction after learning that they had been harboring al-Zawahiri, the architect of the September 11 attacks, in the Afghan capital for months — a clear violation of the Doha Agreement, in which the Taliban promised that Afghanistan would not shelter al Qaeda members.
The terror leader was killed in his luxe Kabul apartment by a US dronezap July 31 — but his presence in Afghanistan drew sharp criticism from Republicans.
"The American people were lied to by President Biden," charged Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.