After being described as “partners” by the Biden administration, the Taliban announced that they’re bringing back sharia punishments by chopping off hands and stoning their victims.
Last year, the Biden administration had praised the Taliban’s “openness” to women’s rights.
This development puts the nail in the coffin of claims by Biden administration figures that the Jihadist organization had changed into a kinder, gentler Taliban. But the media has conveniently ignored revelations of the close collaboration between the administration and the Taliban.
Front Page Magazine was one of the few conservative publications that exposed the over $1.1 billion in aid directed by the administration after the Taliban takeover, the special licenses issued by the Biden administration authorizing financial transactions with the Taliban and Al Qaeda’s Haqqani Network to distribute that aid, and the billions stolen from 9/11 families for the Taliban.
The Biden administration has been stonewalling the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction with the State Department and Samantha Power’s USAID refusing to allow employees to be interviewed about, among other things, their “compliance with the laws and regulations prohibiting transfers of funds to members of the Taliban and the Haqqani Network”.
Instead, the Biden administration has been chartering Osama bin Laden’s old airline which had been used to ferry drugs and terrorists to evacuate the Americans that Biden had left behind. These hostages have become another cash cow that the Taliban are using to extract money from American taxpayers through the offices of their allies in the Biden administration.
Biden administration figures have repeatedly met with Taliban leaders. According to Al Jazeera, run by the state sponsors of the Islamic terror group, the administration had even provided assurances that the United States will not fund any resistance to the Taliban.
Coming a few months after Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed while under Taliban protection, a “high-level delegation” that allegedly included a top CIA figure, agreed not to “fund any armed groups or non-state actors in the country”, particularly the National Resistance Front, consisting of the Northern Alliance members who had originally helped us liberate Afghanistan.
This betrayal came even after clear evidence that the Taliban were harboring Al Qaeda.
Why would the Biden administration unilaterally throw away our best leverage against the Taliban without getting them to end their support for Al Qaeda and other terror groups?
The Biden administration then went beyond just appropriating $1.1 billion in humanitarian aid, much of which will benefit the Taliban in one way or another, while authorizing transactions with the terrorists, but actually conspired to print money for the Taliban to replace their old bills.
According to Biden’s State Department spokesman, the administration was “working hard with international banks to facilitate payment transfers from Afghanistan’s central bank to European printing companies where new banknotes would actually be produced” to “replace what had been crumbling banknotes in Afghanistan”.
Spokesman Ned Price explained that, “Afghanistan’s markets, even today, run widely on cash, but existing banknotes are crumbling. And that’s why this is such an urgent challenge.”
The Biden administration’s idea of an “urgent challenge” in Afghanistan isn’t preventing Al Qaeda from reforming, it’s not getting out Americans, or stopping the Taliban from stoning people, it’s arranging for a Polish printing company to churn out banknotes for the Taliban.
It’s not enough for the Biden administration to steal billions from 9/11 families and send it to the Taliban, it has to go all the way and actually print money for the Islamic terrorist group.
Thanks to Biden, the Taliban will get 10 billion in ‘Afghanis’ from Poland and another 10 billion from a French company. $3.5 billion in assets in the United States are being transferred to a Swiss trust fund held for the Taliban so that a future administration won’t be able to recover it.
The Biden administration claims to be concerned about Taliban atrocities and then continues to enable the terrorists.
Karen Decker, the head of the U.S. Mission to Afghanistan, conducted a “listening tour” of Afghan women who fled the Taliban and claimed that she shares their “concerns and their hope.” Then she described printing money for the Taliban as “part of our commitment to help the Afghan people”. The only Afghan people that she’s helping are the Taliban.
Thomas West, Biden’s Special Representative to Afghanistan, boasted, “I am very pleased to say that in the past 24 hours we have finally seen the conclusion of two currency transactions.”
There is no other conclusion to be drawn from these latest revelations except that the Biden administration wants the Taliban to remain in power. And has been consistently scheming to bypass legal restrictions on funding terrorism to funnel money to the Taliban.
A responsible administration that served our national interests would be providing a fraction of the aid to the National Resistance Front and other anti-Taliban groups that it’s funneling to Ukraine, and it would, at the very least, use sanctions to undermine the Taliban regime.
Instead, Biden is laboring to protect the Taliban and to keep the terrorists in power.
That’s the same conclusion that the Taliban have drawn. That’s why after prolonged hesitation and doubletalk, they are shedding any pretense about their intentions.
The Taliban’s Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada ordered judges to impose “the ruling of sharia” on, among others, “seditionists” and “apostates”.
“Those cases that have met all the Shariah conditions of limitation and retribution, you are obliged to issue the limitation and retribution, because this is the order of the Sharia and my order and it is obligatory to act,” the Taliban’s spokesman tweeted.
The Taliban have begun a comprehensive crackdown using the traditional brutal punishments of Islam. They’re testing the Biden administration and know that they have nothing to worry about.
Supreme Leader Akhundzada had been a chief judge in the Taliban’s court system during their original period of rule when they became notorious for inflicting grotesque and horrifying punishments on anyone who displeased them.
Nothing has really changed.
Last year, the Taliban captured Danish Siddiqui, the chief photographer for Reuters, in a mosque, beat and tortured him, ran him over with a car, and shot him at close range.
The same media, including Reuters, which has amplified Qatari propaganda about its Al Jazeera terrorist operatives, like Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey and Shireen Abu Akleh in Israel, has remained mostly silent about this atrocity against an actual journalist by the allies of Qatar.
The Biden administration, which has attacked Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi’s death and announced an FBI investigation of Israel over Abu Akleh’s death, has made no such efforts over the mutilation and murder of Siddiqui. Biden condemned the Saudis and the Israelis over Khashoggi and Abu Akleh, but never once mentioned Siddiqui’s name.
Jalina Porter, until recently a Washington Wizards cheerleader, who was elevated to a State Department spokeswoman, failed to condemn the Taliban after Siddiqui’s brutal murder, but only called for “an end to the violence” and a “just and durable peace settlement.”
The complicity and the double standards spoke eloquently about the administration’s agenda.
Last year, the Taliban’s Supreme Leader made his position clear to the rest of the world, “I cannot compromise on Shariah to work with you or even move a step forward.” He warned that “even if the world uses an atomic bomb, we will rule the country according to the Sharia Law.”
That was back in July.
The Biden administration and its media allies knew that they were lying about the kinder, gentler Taliban and their openness to human rights. They told those lies to keep the money flowing.
After robbing 9/11 families, diverting money to the Taliban under a dozen pretexts, including payments for hostages that the Biden administration chose to leave behind, and even collaborating in printing money for the terrorist group, there will be a brief condemnation as the Taliban resume openly mutilating, killing and torturing victims through their Islamic courts.
But the Biden administration will make sure to keep taxpayer money flowing to the terrorists.
The shameful treason we saw at the panicked evacuation of Afghanistan was not the climax, it was the middle of a conspiracy to put the Taliban in power by the enemies of America. Those enemies are not just in Moscow, Tehran or Beijing, they are right here in Washington D.C.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Daniel!
On a tangent, it occurred to me, that just allowing the paper money to crumble, without replacing it with new bills, would be a good way to fight inflation (reduces the money supply, etc.)
Mo de Profit says
Their money crumbles because they have no ability to print replacements, like every single islamic dictatorship their only ability is to rub their heads on rugs.
Meanwhile historians are trying to show that everything we can do started with islam but lost its way.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah, pretty pathetic, an economy so weak they can’t even print paper money.
Kasandra says
I’m sure the Afghan economy is weak but it probably can afford to print its own money. But why should it when a willing U.S. will pay for it?
Algorithmic Analyst says
That’s a point.
Also, there comes a time when the bills are worth less than the cost of printing them.
“The Venezuelan central bank’s latest orders have been exclusively only for 100- and 50-bolivar notes, according to the seven people familiar with the deals, because 20s, 10s, 5s and 2s are worth less than the production cost.”
commonsense says
This article, along with Robert Spencer’s article also appearing today (Free America 2) underscores how treasonous Biden and his cohorts are. Yet Republicans say and do little about any of this, and soon-to-be Speaker of the House, McCarthy, has stated publicly that he has no plans to attempt to impeach our putative president, “elected” through fraud and by suppression of information concerning his involvement in various types of influence peddling, monetizing his vice presidency to enrich his family and himself by selling favors to foreign governments, including China,Ukraine, and Russia. Perhaps McCarthy is actually planning to impeach by taking the long route, first going after Biden’s son’s dirty international dealings, ultimately leading to Biden’s involvement, which would in fact lay the groundwork for his ultimate impeachment. But I’m probably giving McCarthy too much credit here. Biden has violated his oath of office in so may serious ways (border security, 1st, 2nd, and 14th Amendment suppression, weaponizing the FBI and DOJ) that his impeachment and removal from office are obligatory if our country as we knew it is to prevail.
David Ray says
“Humanitarian aid” reminds of the depths that leftists will believe their own bullshit.
Conservative Patriots know it’ll go to anything BUT humanitarian needs.
Extraordinary idiots like Senator Patty Murray might praise the Taliban for building nonexistent day-care centers like she when she did the same for Osama Bin Laden.
Bribes flow to the Big Guy; then our tax dollars flow to our enemies (and it’s not used for anything humanitarian.)
IAC. says
“Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” !
-Robert Gates, Obama’s Secretary of Defense
“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fugk things up” !
-Barack Obama
Walter Sieruk says
That villain, Joe Biden, who is masquerading as a real US President has already supported the Taliban in many ways.
An example of this is that so called “humanitarian aid” hoax for the poor Afghan people that they will never receive because the thieving Taliban will take for themselves.
In this interview with Robert Spencer the host that make mention that the Taliban is now in possession of “advanced weapons” with is because of that awful and sinister Joe Biden.
Joe Biden created the disaster in Afghanistan which resulted in those high-quality US military weapons now being in the sinister Islamic hands of the Taliban actually occurred because of Biden and his awful orders about withdrawing from Afghanistan the wrong way
The US military equipment and arms being obtained by the enemy, the Taliban, is because of that other enemy of America, Joe Biden.
Furthermore, those thieving Taliban are using US military trucks and other American equipment they has stolen for furthering their brutal cruel harsh Islamic oppression of Sharia law on the people of Afghanistan who trapped and force to exist in the land that they have taken over.
This wasn’t what so many American soldiers had died, and many are maimed for life for.
This is worse the sad, terrible tragic. It all comes down to fault of and blame of that death cult of a religion which is Islam.
Algorithmic Analyst says
2 enemies, Communism and Islam, in temporary alliance, in order to destroy civilization. After which, they will turn on each other, Communism gaining the upper hand in some areas, Islam in other areas, depending on which one is more treacherous and brutal. Islam often seeks to ambush and poison their victims.
Spurwing Plover says
Biden is s a Traitor and a Globalists he belong in prison with both the Clintons and Obama
William James Ward says
Biden is steeped in evil and is owned by the dark side of life, all he does is vile.
Walter Sieruk says
That despicable and treasonous US “President” Joe Biden, has only aided and helped the murderous Taliban enemy conquer Afghanistan.
Now Biden continues to aid and support the Taliban. So now the Taliban can more effectively oppress, terrorize the people of Afghanistan.
In addition, that despicable villain, Biden, by handing Afghanistan over to the Taliban has betrayed America and Americans and has even cause the deaths of many Americans.
Anne says
All governments are corrupted now, the Bidens are one of the worst. The media has played a big part in cover ups and lies instead of doing their job. They have contributed to globalism and the decline of all nations.
Walter Sieruk says
That treasonous SOB ,Joe Biden , had and still continues to aid and fund the Taliban.
The wicked treacherous of Biden has no limits.