On Thursday, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued the Biden administration’s version of a threat to the Taliban if they allow the terrorist group al-Qaeda, which murdered roughly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, to use Afghanistan as a base from which they can launch attacks, boasting, “We put the Taliban on notice that we expect them to not allow that to happen.”
Austin, visiting various Gulf States, told reporters in Kuwait City, “The whole community is kind of watching to see what happens and whether or not al-Qaida has the ability to regenerate in Afghanistan. The nature of al-Qaeda and (the Islamic State group) is they will always attempt to find space to grow and regenerate, whether it’s there, whether it’s in Somalia, or whether it’s in any other ungoverned space. I think that’s the nature of the organization,” according to The Associated Press, which admitted, “The Taliban had provided al-Qaida with sanctuary while it ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.”
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