{"id":672452,"date":"2021-08-22T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=672452"},"modified":"2021-08-22T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:50:20","slug":"al-qaida-isis-the-haqqani-network-liz-cheney-warns-of-renewed-terrorist-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/al-qaida-isis-the-haqqani-network-liz-cheney-warns-of-renewed-terrorist-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Al-Qaida, ISIS, The Haqqani Network\u2019: Liz Cheney Warns Of Renewed Terrorist Threat"},"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%2Fal-qaida-isis-the-haqqani-network-liz-cheney-warns-of-renewed-terrorist-threat%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=672452&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\/2021\/08\/liz-cheney-nbc-news-e1629652144145.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney expressed worry about terrorist attacks coming from Afghanistan during a Sunday appearance on \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission in Afghanistan was to deny terrorists a sanctuary. And the Biden decision now to completely withdraw has handed them an entire country, has, in fact, ensured, not just the Taliban, but al-Qaida, ISIS, the Haqqani Network, terrorist organizations that want to attack the United States now have an entire country as a sanctuary from which to do so,\u201d Cheney told NBC News\u2019 Chuck Todd.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney has been a critic of withdrawing from Afghanistan, first under President Donald Trump and now under President Joe Biden. She <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/23\/donald-trump-tweets-twitter-republican-gop-conference-chair-rep-liz-cheney-war-afghanistan\/\">voted<\/a> in July 2020 to prohibit the Trump administration from using federal funds to pull troops from Afghanistan unless the Department of Defense could <a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/301a28247b80ab82279e92afb\/files\/9bb84f8b-8162-4ece-9f05-9521c8c264c4\/CROWCO_055_xml_10_.pdf?utm_source=House+GOP+Media+List&amp;utm_campaign=da6dc54a60-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_03_06_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_38d91d4596-da6dc54a60-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">verify<\/a> that the withdrawal would not impact counter-terrorism operations. Cheney also <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2021172\">voted<\/a> against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/house-repeal-2002-aumf-expanded-presidential-war-powers\/\">repealing<\/a> the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force in Iraq in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban has never renounced Al-Qaida. This is one of the things that was such an indefensible step by the Trump Administration,\u201d she said, noting the Trump administration\u2019s 2020 agreement with the Taliban that the group would stop coordinating with Al-Qaida as part of the American military withdrawal. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/01\/taliban-al-qaida-violate-agreement\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Report: Taliban Still Working With Al-Qaida, Violating Agreement With US)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sat down and negotiated with terrorists, because we completely excluded the Afghan government from those negotiations. We gave credibility to the Taliban. Secretary Pompeo told us that the Taliban was going to renounce al-Qaida. They told us that the Taliban was going to fight terrorists. They forced the Afghan national government, we did, to release 5,000 prisoners. We completely undercut the Afghan national government, and we absolutely emboldened the Taliban,\u201d Cheney continued.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney criticized Biden, Trump, and former President Barack Obama for not \u201ctell[ing] the public what\u2019s necessary, who will help to explain why, in fact, we need to have a presence on the ground in Afghanistan,\u201d after Todd pressed her on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/americans-afghanistan-war-worth-fighting-7062d390-74d4-4419-bda5-3d48ee5fdc06.html\">polling<\/a> that showed 60% of Americans support withdrawing from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to maintain, need to maintain a presence on the ground. Three thousand, five hundred forces, counter-terrorism operations, counterintelligence operations. That allowed us to have the kind of assurance that the Taliban would not, in fact, take over as they have done and create now a brand-new safe haven. Again, it\u2019s not just the Taliban. It\u2019s the Haqqani Network. It\u2019s al-Qaida. You\u2019ve got ISIS. The very groups, particularly al-Qaida, that attacked us 20 years ago from bases in Afghanistan, now back into a position where they can do the same again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney expressed worry about terrorist attacks coming from Afghanistan during a Sunday appearance on \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d\u201cOur mission in Afghanistan was to deny terrorists a sanctuary. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}