Ten years after bin Laden’s death, al-Qaeda asserted that the terrorist war “will continue on all fronts”

This weekend marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Osama Bin Laden, the perpetrator of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States., in the hands of the team Seal 6 US Special Operations Forces, within its walled compound in the Pakistani military university town of Abbottabad.

The “War on Terror” America is about to enter a new phase. The president of the North American country, Joe biden, recently announced the withdrawal of all US forces from Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of September 11. However, the terrorist, paramilitary and jihadist organization Al-Qaeda stipulate that your conflict with the United States is far from over.

In an interview with the channel CNN carried out by intermediaries, two members of Al Qaeda said that “the war against the United States will continue on all other fronts unless they are expelled from the rest of the Islamic world. “.

In the past, al Qaeda did not often respond to questions from the media, so it is not clear why the group decided to do so now.

The Terrorist Analyst Paul Cruickshank, editor-in-chief of Sentinel CTC West Point, which has reviewed Al Qaeda’s responses, says they can “feel encouraged by the Biden administration’s decision to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, but they can also watch distract from the many recent lossesAccording to the slogan of CNN.

Today, the terrorist group seems to have declined, but is far from dead. Now he assures that plans to return after US forces leave Afghanistan, to associate again with the Taliban.

In their response to CNN, two members of the al-Qaeda branch they praised the Taliban for keeping the fight against the United States alive. “Thanks to the Afghans for the protection of comrades in arms, many such jihadist fronts have been operating successfully in different parts of the Islamic world for a long time.”said the spokesperson.

On September 11 of this year, the longest war in the United States aimed at neutralizing the terrorist group will officially end. “Bin Laden is dead and Al-Qaeda is degraded in Afghanistan. And it’s time to end the war forever “Biden said.

Talk to the program This week chain ABC, the US Secretary of State, Antony blink, he agreed with the decision of the American president. “We went to Afghanistan 20 years ago because we were attacked on September 11, to confront those who attacked us on September 11, and to ensure that Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven for directed terrorism. against the United States or any of our peoples. allies and partners. We have already achieved the goals we set for ourselvesSaid the official.

What made the withdrawal possible is the US agreement with the Afghan Taliban in February 2020, in which the group is committed to sever ties with al-Qaeda that prompted the Americans to invade Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks.

Through journalistic intermediaries, the CNN contributor Saleem Mehsud contacted Al Qaeda to find out their reaction to Biden’s decision to withdraw his troops from Afghanistan. Your answer suggests that the Taliban are not being honest with the administration of the president of North America, and that the withdrawal of American troops could be based on a farce.

Peter Bergen, a CNN terrorism expert and author of several books on Osama Bin Laden, called al Qaeda’s response “Authentic”.

Bergen pointed out another part of the response which highlights the continued ties to the Taliban, in which it says: “At the same time, the Pakistani Taliban and Al Qaeda have an Islamic brotherhood relationship that was and continues to be intact, and so it is with the Afghan Taliban.”

Bergen added that “this confirms what the UN has said that the Taliban have regularly consulted al-Qaeda in their negotiations with the United States, while ensuring that would honor its historic ties to the terrorist group“.

Al-Qaeda also ensures have no interest in using Afghanistan itself as a springboard for future attacks because it no longer needs it. “We didn’t need Afghanistan and that intention is not in the future,” the group said.

“The Americans are now defeated”, the terrorist organization told CNN, and drew a parallel with the withdrawal of the Soviet Union three decades ago from the country and its subsequent collapse: “The US war in Afghanistan played a key role in the blow to the US economy”.

They also admitted that Bin Laden’s death weakened Al Qaeda, allowing more nihilist Islamists, the Islamic state (ISIS), were created. “They have benefited from the martyrdom of Sheikh Osama, Sheikh Atiyahullah, Sheikh Abu Yahya Al-Libi (God have mercy on them) and many others,” they told CNN.

In recent years, ISIS’s atrocities and the attacks it inspired in Europe have eclipsed Al Qaeda. But the band sees this moment as a “Tactical silence”, indicating that the organization is not “broken” and on the contrary “is waging a long war” with “different stages”.

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