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SHARE Ten years ago this weekend, Barack Obama looked around a tense White House situation room and told his expectant team: “Looks like we got him. After tense minutes awaiting reports from a three-storey house 11,000 kilometres away in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, word had finally come through that the target named Geronimo had been killed by Navy Seals. That simple, coded confirmation that Osama bin Laden was dead marked a watershed in America s vengeful pursuit of Al Qaeda and one of the high points Mr Obama s presidency. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden holds a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan, in 1998. AP Photo
US Troops Are Leaving Afghanistan, But Al Qaeda Remains
In this Sept. 11, 2011 file photo, U.S. soldiers sit beneath an American flag just raised to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
25 May 2021 The Los Angeles Times | By Nabih Bulos, David S. Cloud
In a hidden corner of Hamid Karzai International Airport, half a dozen military officers sat at their desks, staring glassily at monitors showing high-resolution video feeds and surveillance footage beamed from drones, warplanes and helicopters across the country.
It was a tableau often seen in years past, but on this recent afternoon there was a crucial difference: The Afghans were alone, without the American forces that have backed them in a 20-year war.
By NABIH BULOS AND DAVID S. CLOUD | Los Angeles Times | Published: April 30, 2021 KABUL, Afghanistan (Tribune News Service) In a hidden corner of Hamid Karzai International Airport, half a dozen military officers sat at their desks, staring glassily at monitors showing high-resolution video feeds and surveillance footage beamed from drones, warplanes and helicopters across the country. It was a tableau often seen in years past, but on this recent afternoon there was a crucial difference: The Afghans were alone, without the American forces that have backed them in a 20-year war. That absence, amid a shift that puts al-Qaida rather than the Taliban in the U.S. and NATO s crosshairs, has forced an evolution in how Afghan forces operate. After years focused on roving combat with the Taliban on the battlefield, the Afghan military now must take full charge of the air support it relied on the U.S. to provide, integrating surveillance and airpower into its own Operations Intelli
Al-Qaeda lurks as US readies pullout from Afghanistan 2 minutes read
By Baber Khan Sahel
Kabul, May 1 (EFE).- The United States-led coalition began the final stage of its pullout from Afghanistan on Saturday, concluding an almost two-decade long war, and even as the al-Qaeda terrorist group that it had pledged to wipe out remains a threat.
Earlier this month, US president Joe Biden formally announced the withdrawal of the remaining 2,500 US soldiers – who are joined by another 7,000 allied troops – in Afghanistan by September, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of its invasion of Afghanistan following the infamous 9/11 attacks.
Biden claimed “America’s longest war” had achieved its goal with the killing of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden 10 years ago in Pakistan and the mitigation of the al-Qaeda terror threat.