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Gov’t: No US Soldier Killed Because Taliban Were Focused on ‘Fighting Afghans’
[KhaamaPress] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent remarks on Twitter saying "no US servicemen have been killed in Afghanistan" sparked a backlash from politicians in the Afghan government. As no US servicemen were killed in the last year, thousands of civilians and Afghan security members were killed in the violence during 2020. Afghan Senate Speaker Fazl Hadi Moslemyar said, "Besides the US, I congratulate the victory of the Taliban  ...Arabic for students... as well," saying that "meanwhile, I tell the Taliban ’congratulations to you, you have killed the sons of this soil, civil society activists and journalists who are reflecting the pains of the people", Tolonews quoted. Presidential Palace said US soldiers were not killed in the previous year is because the Taliban were busy and focused on fighting against Afghans. "The foreign forces casualties were zero because now the conflicts are led by the security and defense forces and the Taliban is fighting only against the people and the government of Afghanistan," Dawa Khan Minapal, a presidential front man, was quoted by Tolonews. Taliban in a tweet replied to Pompeo, that no attacks against US forces since the Doha deal show that the Islamic Emirate is fulfilling its obligations as a committed entity, adding that they also hoped for a peace agreement to be implemented in the same way, "We will fulfill the same obligations when we reach an agreement with the internal" actors, the group stated. A UN report indicated that within the first six months of 2020, Two Thousand One hundred non-combatants were killed and 3,800 others were maimed. This comes as Negotiators of the Islamic Theocratic Republicof Afghanistan will be leaving for Doha on Monday, and President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... in a meeting on Sunday evening assured them of the government’s full support. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-01-23 |
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