There's a new report out Friday from the State Department's after-action review of the horrible withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
The report excoriates the way the withdrawal was handled, noting that the Biden team did not sufficiently plan or prepare for "Worst case scenarios."
After the report was released, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby tried to defend the administration with the same poor response that they've used for two years: that the "Decision to end the war was the right one." No one was talking about the decision to end the war, but about the horrible way in which Joe Biden and his officials tried to carry it out.
Biden snapped at reporters like they were children, since they don't just blindly accept everything he says: "Read your press!" But what he was saying simply wasn't the case, particularly when it comes to al-Qaeda.
The new report indicated "Al-Qaeda members have received appointments and advisory roles in the Taliban security and administrative structures" thanks to the Taliban and that "The Taliban provided al-Qaeda with monthly 'welfare payments,' with portions of those payments filtered down to fighters of al-Qaeda affiliated groups."
The report also said that "One training director of the de facto Ministry of Defence was an al-Qaeda member, while training was based on al-Qaeda manuals, which were openly being used at Ministry facilities." [.]. The U.N. said that "a range of terrorist groups have greater freedom of maneuver under the Taliban" and "The threat of terrorism is rising in both Afghanistan and the region."
The report said there are 30 to 60 "Core members" of al Qaeda in Afghanistan, with 400 "Al-Qaeda fighters" there, but with family and supporters that reaches about 2,000 people.
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