{"id":1249068,"date":"2022-01-27T22:07:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1249068"},"modified":"2022-01-27T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:08:07","slug":"haqqani-terrorist-threatens-america-as-biden-team-negotiates-with-taliban-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haqqani-terrorist-threatens-america-as-biden-team-negotiates-with-taliban-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Haqqani Terrorist Threatens America as Biden Team Negotiates with Taliban in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhaqqani-terrorist-threatens-america-as-biden-team-negotiates-with-taliban-in-norway%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1249068&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Haqqani-final-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Taliban backpedaled on Thursday after FBI-wanted terrorist and Afghan \u201cInterior Minister\u201d Sarajuddin Haqqani threatened the United States if Washington did not recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government.<\/p>\n<p>Haqqani made the remarks in a televised interview with Al Jazeera that aired as a Taliban delegation negotiated with several foreign representatives in Oslo, Norway, including a representative from the administration of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August after Biden announced that he would break an agreement brokered between the White House and the Sunni jihadist group before he came into office. The Taliban responded to Biden\u2019s announcement, which extended the U.S. presence in Afghanistan beyond the agreed-upon May 2021 deadline, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/07\/29\/taliban-attacks-biden-afghanistan\/\">waging<\/a> a rapid and extremely successful war against the former Afghan government. The Taliban seized Kabul on August 15 after then-President Ashraf Ghani fled the country via helicopter. No individual or group has presented a significant challenge to the Taliban\u2019s claim of being the government of Afghanistan since Ghani fled.<\/p>\n<p>Given the status of the Taliban as a terrorist organization with little regard for human rights, however, it has failed to convince a single sovereign state to recognize it as the formal government of Afghanistan. This has resulted in governments and institutions like the World Bank freezing funds belonging to the Afghan government, depriving the Taliban of resources it would need to keep itself in power. Taliban leaders have pleaded for months with Washington and other foreign powers and institutions to subsidize it to ensure the success of a Taliban regime.<\/p>\n<p>In his Al Jazeera interview with weekend, Haqqani \u2014 a member of the notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/30\/biden-admin-claims-no-ties-between-taliban-haqqani-terror-networks-right-before-taliban-tasks-prominent-haqqani-education\/\">Haqqani network<\/a> that ties the Taliban to al-Qaeda \u2014 urged America to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government and give it the tools to succeed, threatening violence if this does not occur.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAmerica has signed a peace agreement with us in Doha, and we abide by our commitments in this agreement,\u201d Haqqani said, referring to the deal Biden broke. \u201cThey asked us to make sure that Afghan soil is not used to launch attacks against others, and we agreed and abided by this [commitment]. They must also abide by their commitments in the agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we receive recognition, we will not pose a threat to anyone. But refusing to recognize us, while dealing with us in an informal manner, and preventing the international community from dealing with us \u2013 this is unacceptable,\u201d Haqqani <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/tv\/afghanistan-taliban-interior-minister-sarajuddin-haqqani-wanted-by-fbi-jazeera-america-recognize-us\">continued<\/a>, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).&nbsp;\u201cOnly the recognized government can guarantee these commitments. Refusing to recognize [our government] means keeping the gates of hostility against the Afghan people wide open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of the Interior that Haqqani runs issued a statement on Thursday condemning MEMRI and others who reported on the translation of the interview, denying that Haqqani had ever made any such statements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome media published wrong reports from the interview suggesting he said that if the Islamic Emirate was not recognized it would pose a threat to the US,\u201d spokesman Aqel Ozam <a href=\"https:\/\/tolonews.com\/index.php\/afghanistan-176485\">said<\/a> in a statement, according to Afghanistan\u2019s Tolo News. \u201cHowever, the Minister of Interior did not say any threatening words toward the US or the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haqqani issuing threats appears to undermine the message other Taliban representatives were attempting to deliver in Oslo, where Norway was brokering a meeting uniting the jihadists with representatives of several Western governments including the United States. Reports from Oslo suggest that the Taliban spent much of the time in the meetings \u2014 which were held in a closed-door format, making exact reporting on the discussions impossible \u2014 urging the participants to unfreeze financial assets that once belonged to the defunct Taliban government.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban is seeking international recognition and release of billions of dollars in Afghan central bank assets frozen by the US following the group\u2019s return to power on August 15, 2021,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/1\/26\/west-links-afghan-humanitarian-aid-to-human-rights\">Al Jazeera<\/a>. \u201cThe country also found itself cut off from international financial institutions after the group\u2019s return, triggering a banking crisis and fears the war-battered economy will collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norway faced some negative press for hosting the Taliban to plead for money and resources, which it responded to on Thursday by insisting that hosting the Taliban for official talks does not translate into recognition for the Taliban as the official government of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me stress that facilitating talks such as these in no way represents a legitimization of the de facto authorities in Afghanistan. Nor does it represent any change in Norwegian policy,\u201d Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Anniken Huitfeldt <a href=\"https:\/\/tolonews.com\/afghanistan-176479\">said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cWe know the Taliban will actively defend their own interests \u2013 and are seeking legitimacy. That is one of the reasons that I, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, did not meet with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huitfeldt applauded her country for hosting an \u201cin-depth political discussion with&nbsp;with women activists and other opinion leaders in Afghan society,\u201d the first the Taliban has allegedly agreed to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFace to face, in a safe place, they were given a clear message: legitimacy must come from the Afghans themselves, and it requires reconciliation and a more inclusive form of government,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>While insisting that Norway does not recognize the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan, Huitfeldt referred to the jihadists as the \u201cde facto authorities in the country\u201d and insisted that dialogue with the group is necessary.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643287487626000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3FUQUXd_l8yxhVde9H7F3k\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643287487626000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0x0dr_PgXYM7ME8mA6lbmQ\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban backpedaled on Thursday after FBI-wanted terrorist and Afghan \u201cInterior Minister\u201d Sarajuddin Haqqani threatened the United States if Washington did not recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government. 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