Abu Dhabi crown prince 'proposed killing Taliban leaders'

[AfrazulMandal]

Mohammed bin Zayed, Abu Dhabi's crown prince, proposed to set up an assassination programme targeting top Taliban leaders during a meeting with the top US diplomat earlier this year, the Middle East Eye (MEE) news website has reported.

The crown prince made the offer during Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to the UAE on January 12 amid disagreements over the progress of peace talks between US and Taliban negotiators, MEE reported on Thursday, citing to a source with detailed knowledge of the meeting.

According to the source, bin Zayed told Pompeo that Washington risked allowing Afghanistan to fall back into the hands of the "backward, bearded bad guys" and proposed hiring mercenaries to kill Taliban leaders to weaken the group's negotiating position.

Pompeo was visibly taken aback by the offer, but said nothing, the source reportedly said.

The UAE has supported US efforts to broker a peace deal with the Taliban, and hosted a first round of negotiations between the two sides late last year in Abu Dhabi.

But bin Zayed is believed to have been frustrated that subsequent rounds of negotiations were moved to Qatar's capital, Doha, at the insistence of the Taliban, which has maintained a political office there since 2013.

In January, US and Taliban negotiators held a six-day meeting - which was described by Pompeo on Twitter as "encouraging" - in Doha, which also hosted marathon talks over 16 days in February and March.

According to MEE's source, bin Zayed warned Pompeo that withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan risked a regression back to 2001, prior to the US-led invasion that overthrew the Taliban government in Kabul.

The US hopes that a negotiated deal with the Taliban, which continues to battle Afghan government and international forces, could allow it to start withdrawing some of its 14,000 troops still in the country before the end of 2019.

But bin Zayed suggested instead organising what he called a "Blackwater-style" operation to "wage an assassination campaign against the first-line leadership of the Taliban" in order to prevent it from achieving its chief political demands, the source reportedly said.

Blackwater was the private security firm founded by Erik Prince, hired by the CIA in 2004 to locate and kill al-Qaeda operatives covertly.

It gained notoriety over its activities in Iraq where several contractors opened fire on unarmed civilians in Iraq's capital, Baghdad in 2007, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others.

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In 50 years, they have the capability to expand from Syria in the West to Myanmar in the East.

Now imagine Taliban going to war with these clowns.
They wont have any place to hide.

Unless Pakistan decides to fight the Taliban, post US withdrawal the only force to face them would be the Indian Armed Forces. There is no other major opposition from Iran to Myanmar.

 

[PakSword]

Before commenting here, people should understand that aljazeera to uae/ksa is like Indian media to Pakistan.

So all other reports of aljazeera that don't involve these two countries even remotely can be trusted without a doubt and the news that are even remotely connected to these two countries can be rejected right away.

 

[Reddington]

Could someone explain how the Taliban work, because we need to model this system and build every military in the world around them.

1. Incredibly poor
2. Dwell in caves
3. Mostly illiterate
4. No body armour
5. Basic weapon systems
6. Wear flip flops
7. Do not operate using a chain of command
8. Seem to grow bigger while you kill them
9. Have no leadership
10. Brought down the US Army, NATO and ISAF
11. Seem to magically manifest unlimited 'ammunition' and 'weapons' out of thin air, while being surrounded by sanctions in a desert.

To win a guerrilla/unconventional warfare, that force must have
1) Indigenous leadership
2) Belief in it's cause
3) Local support
Plus Taliban have faith as well, so no fear of death which boosts their morale even more.
And they don't magically get ammunition and weapons. They steal them from incompetent and corrupt Afghan forces and police. And also the opium trade helps them as well.

 

[newb3e]

Your 11 point is the most important question. The weapons and ammo doesn't simply manifest from some thin air. It needs money, hell lot of money and without external support it is never possible to the level Taliban are having them.

isi sajizh *hindu india brain fart

 

[Mentee]

During Iraq war president Bush expressed his desire of bombing al Jazeera hq to Tony - - - - - - -

 

[Reichsmarschall]

thats something only cowards of Arabia can pull out
killing unarmed ambassadors who came to negotiate for peace
Quresh e Makkah type mentality is still prevalent in Bedouins of Arabia

 

[Tom M]

Now imagine Taliban going to war with these clowns.
They wont have any place to hide.

How

isi sajizh *hindu india brain fart

Well *Christian American and *Muslim UAE also fart so it seems.

 

[Counter-Errorist]

I don't mean to insult, and undermine the 18 year war on terror, but I also do.

"Top Taliban Leaders" - who are we talking about here? There are around 60,000 members of the Taliban in concentrated areas of Afghanistan. There are millions of troops, satellites, intelligence agencies, spy drones and weapon systems IN and around the Taliban right now.

The first thing you do is you 'know your customer'. Make a list of your enemies, know everything about them and then destroy them. Its not a delicate complicated process. Its simple. You go and kill them.

They cant identify the enemies. Or they don't want to.

Please tell me, for the last 18 years what have these folks been doing? I'll tell you what.... They have been helping the Taliban.

2001 = 20,000 members
2019 = 60,000 members

60,000 - 20,000 = 40,000 increase.

So they spent 19 years carpet bombing the planet and managed to do a magic spell that instead of destroying the enemy, tripled them. Please don't tell me 'historical context, you don't know this fact and that fact and its a harsh reality'. An excuse is an still only an excuse.

The bottom line is the war machine is run by monkeys.

The real question that no one wants to ask is.. Who is going to hold the war machine and its representatives to account for total failure of reaching any its objectives whatsoever?

It's not hard to see how they grow. Foreign countries bomb your country. You lose beloved family members, friends and see people in your village maimed and in suffering. You want revenge. You can't get it on your own. You need a structure and platform. Taliban provides one.

 

[newb3e]

How


Well *Christian American and *Muslim UAE also fart so it seems.

again isi sajizh

 

[Verve]

Pompeo was visibly taken aback by the offer, but said nothing, the source reportedly said

This article is quite dramatic isn't it?

 

[jamahir]

10. Brought down the US Army, NATO and ISAF

One thing about that. It is known that CIA works with the Taliban some times, helping the Taliban sell the opium that the Taliban force some of the Afghan farmers to grow.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

When U.S.A is ready to leave, killing their top leaders will prolong war .

 

[Wow]

 

[Wa Muhammada]

For u it may not, but for Faithfuls, it does.

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[Kharral]

Could someone explain how the Taliban work, because we need to model this system and build every military in the world around them.

1. Incredibly poor
2. Dwell in caves
3. Mostly illiterate
4. No body armour
5. Basic weapon systems
6. Wear flip flops
7. Do not operate using a chain of command
8. Seem to grow bigger while you kill them
9. Have no leadership
10. Brought down the US Army, NATO and ISAF
11. Seem to magically manifest unlimited 'ammunition' and 'weapons' out of thin air, while being surrounded by sanctions in a desert.

You have discounted The ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN.

In 50 years, they have the capability to expand from Syria in the West to Myanmar in the East.


Unless Pakistan decides to fight the Taliban, post US withdrawal the only force to face them would be the Indian Armed Forces. There is no other major opposition from Iran to Myanmar.

Except you will not fight them. The only way I can see you Facing them is Butt naked, bending over, pleading them for a bit of Love.

The new narrative being shaped by the coalition of 'Kazibeen' post Humiliation is one of a rift between Pakistan & Taliban. They are now going to try everything in their power to have these entities at each other's throats by exaggerating the strengths of one faction and the weaknesses of the other. You can already see narrative shaping in that direction.