Taliban Threatens Joe Biden: Stay in Afghanistan Past August and Suffer ‘Consequences’

A senior Taliban spokesman told the U.K.’s Sky News on Monday that the United States and its ally Britain will face “consequences” if they seek to extend their military presence in Afghanistan to ensure the safe evacuation of their citizens.

American President Joe Biden announced this summer that he would withdraw all American troops from the country by August 31. Biden had previously announced in April that the withdrawal would end on September 11, the 20th anniversary of the jihadist attacks that prompted the Afghan War. Both dates were a significant extension of the war from the set withdrawal date under former President Donald Trump, who brokered a deal with the Taliban that would have seen a full American military exit by May 1.

The Taliban followed Biden’s extension of the war – and his choice to break the agreement Trump brokered with the jihadist organization – with a nationwide campaign to overthrow the now-former government of Afghanistan. The campaign culminated with Taliban terrorists surrounding the country’s capital, Kabul, on August 15, prompting former President Ashraf Ghani to abruptly flee the country.

Taliban leaders now control nearly all of Afghanistan, excepting a small pocket of resistance in north-central Panjsher province, which the jihadists claimed on Monday they had surrounded and would soon control.

Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen discussed the current situation in Kabul – where thousands are attempting to reach the airport to avoid being under Taliban rule – with the U.K.’s Sky News, denying that the crowds feared for their safety under the radical Islamist terrorist group. The desperation to flee Taliban rule has prompted multiple deaths in and around the Kabul airport resulting from stampedes and deliberate violence. Eyewitnesses have also reported extensive violence against civilians on the part of Taliban thugs outside the airport, reports the Pentagon confirmed last week.

Shaheen appeared to use the unsubstantiated claim that the Kabul airport chaos did not result from any fear of the Taliban to support the Taliban’s resistance to foreign forces staying in the country to help civilians flee.

The August 31 deadline, Shaheen said, was a “red line.”

“President Biden announced that on 31 August they would withdraw all their military forces. So if they extend it that means they are extending occupation while there is no need for that,” Shaheen said. “If the US or UK were to seek additional time to continue evacuations – the answer is no. Or there would be consequences. It will create mistrust between us. If they are intent on continuing the occupation it will provoke a reaction.”

Shaheen did not elaborate on what consequences Western soldiers would face in the event that their leader ordered them to remain in the country. In April, following Biden’s announcement he would break the deal, the Taliban organization published an official statement vowing “every necessary countermeasure” against the United States for violating the agreement, suggesting attacks on American troops. In practice, the Taliban limited such attacks but instead placed all its focus on forcing the Afghan government out of every corner of the country, including northern regions it never controlled while ruling Afghanistan prior to the 2001 invasion.

According to Afghanistan’s State Ministry for Peace, the Taliban launched 22,000 attacks on the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), the national military, between April and July.

Biden suggested in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos last week that he would consider extending America’s military presence in Afghanistan beyond the August 31 deadline. Biden ordered 6,000 troops into the country in the immediate aftermath of the Taliban takeover; about 2,500 American troops were present in the country at the end of the Trump administration.

Biden responded “yes” when Stephanopoulos asked if he was “committed to making sure that the troops stay until every American who wants to be out is out,” which may occur after August 31.

“The commitment holds to get everyone out that, in fact, we can get out and everyone that should come out,” Biden elaborated, including not just Americans but Afghan nationals who aided the U.S. government, “and that’s the objective. That’s what we’re doing now. That’s the path we’re on. And I think we’ll get there.”

Asked directly if Americans should expect to see their soldiers in Afghanistan past the withdrawal day, Biden said “no.”

On Monday, Shaheen dismissed the necessity of American or British troops staying in the country to support evacuations, arguing that the Taliban’s repeated promises it would not target Afghan collaborators with the West or foreign civilians were enough to calm the general population.

“I assure you it is not about being worried or scared,” Shaheen told Sky News about the thousands attempting to flee Kabul. “[T]hat is a kind of economic migration because Afghanistan is a poor country and 70 percent of the people of Afghanistan live under the line of poverty so everyone wants to resettle in Western countries to have a prosperous life. It is not about [being] scared.”

Shaheen dismissed all video, eyewitness, and other extensive evidence of Taliban jihadis threatening, and sometimes attacking, people believed to have worked with either the former Afghan government or the United States as “fake news.” On women’s rights, he claimed, “women are required to have the same rights as you have in your country [the United Kingdom] but with a hijab.”

The past Taliban rule required women to wear burqas, a full-body covering that does not show eyes. A hijab is a headscarf that covers hair.

“Now, women teachers have resumed work. Lost nothing. Female journalists they have resumed their work. Lost nothing,” Shaheen said.

Women journalists in Afghanistan have vocally protested that Shaheen’s claim is false.

“I wanted to return to work, but unfortunately they did not allow me to work. They told me that the regime has changed and you cannot work,” Shabnam Khan Dawran, an anchor for Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), said last week. Beyond banning women from working, Dawran and other professional women in the country have denounced Taliban jihadists preventing women from leaving their homes at all.

Fuck the taliban.

Unfortunately we don't have a man in the White house to stand up to them.

No MoRe MeAn TwEeTs tHoUgH

August 31 was four or five days ago man.

They’re going to take away Tapioca Tuesdays.

8 days to get everyone out. I bet they are zeroing artillery on the runways.

We are going to leave people behind….especially since they are being blocked from getting to the airport.

The videos will be horrible.

Westerners beheaded.

Blindfolded and shot.

Sorta makes you wonder what the taliban has planned for 9/11 doesn't it...

The biggest truth in the entire article.

Elections have consequences

It took almost that long to get everyone in

The USA is in no position to dictate the terms in Afghanistan.  Thanks to Biden and his highly qualified team of buffoons.

It is hilarious if you think about it.  We have the capabilities to glass every major population center, or reduce them all to rubble, or even kill every last goat roper in that country if we wanted to.  

And they are dictating terms to us.  That our leaders are going to give serious consideration to.  Because they neither fear nor respect us after 20 years of war and occupation

Hey no more mean tweets and the adults are in charge now.

So dual-national Afghani-Americans that didn't leave in time are being left behind in the country they've chosen to live while taking billions of dollars in Uncle Sam's cheddar?


Anyone have the actual breakdown on how many American citizens there are vs half-Americans that chose the nation of their other half?

The facts support that being the terms we agreed to while Trump was President.  We should have been out a couple weeks after we got Osama and declare a huge victory.  Barring that, we should have been out at any point within the 10 years since which includes 4 years of Trump.

That's just it. They don't.

Blood bath

I'm all for the Taliban doing w/e the fuck they want from now on.  Elections have consequences, even stolen ones.  This is one of them, and no matter how bad it gets over there, it isn't our loss.  Well, except the billions in dollars of military equipment we left behind, but again, that's for the Afghanis to deal with.  The Taliban can have the place.  I never supported war there and 20 years of "nation building" was undone in less than 6 months.  This is the man the Dems, and the left wanted to lead this country so this is the bed they get to lay in.  The Taliban will set progressive agendas like women's rights and LGBTQIA+ back 100 years, and I couldn't care less.  Islam and leftism ideology were always a match made in hell.  I'm glad to see the world remembering it.

How embarrassing

Not good, I hope we are moving a lot of air support into the area cause they are gonna need it.

The Luciferian's broom to sweep the last vestiges of Christianity from the west.

Im more concerned about what the CIA, FBI, etc have planned for 9/11 here inside the US.

the deniability?... will it be plausible?

Or worse.

Yeah the Afghans see all these western politicians talking about welcoming refugees and so in a city of four million you get mobs of people rushing the airport.

None of these people trying to get on planes had the will to put up even token resistance to the Taliban. They all support sharia law in some form so all the drama at the airport just about getting basically a free ride to paradise.

I know TL;DR is a thing but I implore all of you to read this and come to grips with exactly what these flights are bringing.

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 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/ive-worked-refugees-decades-europes-afghan-crime-wave-mind-21506

I bet the Taliban just want to worry about ruling Afghanistan. They want the U.S. out and broker a deal with the Chinese to mine all the precious minerals worth trillions that they had no idea about until the world told them they were there. They will be the new sheiks of the world driving Lambos and making TikTok vids.

Yep...Taliban got him by the nutz though...metaphorically speaking for a couple of reasons testicles probably not being one of them...so to speak.

They say they want Americans to go yet they refuse to let American citizens go...then we are still there...so I guess the consequences are a given eh?

LOL - What's a bigger crime.  Random public rape of women walking down the street or "fodder for nationalists"?  Much sophisticated, such intelligent.

On 9/11, Joe will declare victory, and say this is all behind us now.  

No matter what happens that fuck ain't gonna suffer one bit. Someone else has to eat his shit sandwiches

And if you try to defend yourself the cops will probably end up arresting you for a hate crime. It's gonna be awesome

Yes, the "insurrection" of conservatives...

I’m thoroughly convinced Biden and democrats wanted this outcome so China can get control of the countries rare earth materials, especially lithium. China is dead set on having control of that market, they pretty much do already this would solidify it. There really is no other explanation for such stupidity by Biden and admin. They wanted taiiban to take over.

Democrats want nothing more than a weaker America. That much is clear.

No need to zero artillery on runway. They can just shut down Kabul and not allow anyone or anything to reach the airport. They can lock everything down. Take over embassies and have themselves a wonderful PR party.

Does the Taliban use the Gregorian calendar?

This

Wouldn’t be running their cock holsters so much if we started dropping MOABs on the home villages of the Taliban leadership.

Play games and watch your mom turn into atomized pink mist.

The only heart and minds I want to see are leaking on the ground where Taliban homes used to be. If we’re going to go out in a fight make the motherfuckers hurt.

I can see them parking their new round hardware outside the walls of the airport and just opening fire.

I asked myself this morning when I heard the news about the 8/31 deadline.  How long does it take to pull out 7k men with equipment?  

Will the helicopters be destroyed in place or can they be refueled in air?  Can they be loaded on the C17’s?  What about all of the ground transport?  

Also with that being said, when will civilian flights stop.  Only have 8 days

I would hate to be on the last military flight out.

Regan took down the Soviet Union.  Biden got punked by a bunch of goat … uh … herders, yeah, that’s it: goat HERDERS.

Potato Head got himself checkmated by a bunch of cavemen.

Leftists and other_people would say "fodder for nationalists".

That wont be happening, not with the weak leadership that we currently enjoy.

Wonder how long before one of those Afghan refugees is elected to congress, make me sick

That threat should be met with a Linebacker 2.0 response.

Guns ships shooting anybody Talliban day and night. make them hide

Aren't they all one in the same?

The Taliban are smarter than anyone gives them credit for.They have that aiport surrounded.They can do enough damage to those airport runways to make leaving impossible.I think they are purposely dragging this out to position themselves to do something really bad when we can’t or don’t leave.I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out they are coordinating something big with one of our enemies...or perhaps trying to setup and due something with their recently acquired weapons.

But they said it in a mostly peaceful way.