PR:EVIEW: #AFGHANISTAN: Conversation with colleague Bill Roggio of FDD re the failure of Washington over many years to face the fact that the Taliban and Al Qaeda work together, and that there are numerous Al Qaeda facilities that have long prospered befo
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 May 2024
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| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Batchelor in conversation with Bill Rajov, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. |
| 0:35.0 | We look at the narrative developed over many administrations that there was a separation between the Taliban and al-Qaeda. |
| 0:44.0 | Bill speaks to the facts. |
| 0:46.0 | The facts that were evident in 2018-2019 |
| 0:50.0 | when the Trump administration committed itself to leaving Afghanistan, facts that were available |
| 0:55.2 | in 20, 2021. |
| 0:58.6 | For the Biden administration to know that Al Qaeda was integral to the Taliban success in Afghanistan and once they |
| 1:05.6 | recovered the nation al-Qaeda would be secure in its many iterations. |
| 1:11.9 | Bill identifies how many provinces, how many many |
| 1:14.2 | Itorations. How much is there. How much was always there. How the UN |
| 1:18.4 | identified those same places that Bill at the Long War Journal identified. |
| 1:23.8 | How there is no explanation whatsoever other than the fact that the Trump administration |
| 1:28.9 | and the Biden administration ignored what they knew to be true about al-Qaeda, operating quite clearly in 10 or 13 of |
| 1:39.2 | the provinces of Afghanistan. Bill explains here, and this was testimony by the diplomat |
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