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Antony Blinken's defense of Afghan policy clouded by Al-Qaeda warning
FirstpostBlinken had mixed results in attempting to face down the second day of tough congressional questioning, this time from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday sought to parry bipartisan congressional criticism of the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal, as new intelligence estimates warned that al-Qaeda could soon again use Afghan soil to plot attacks on the United States. Blinken had mixed results in attempting to face down the second day of tough congressional questioning, this time from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And, as Blinken testified just three days after the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that led to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, intelligence officials presented a bleak assessment that al-Qaeda could begin to use Afghan territory to threaten America within one to two years. Blinken again blamed the Trump administration for its February 2020 peace deal with the Taliban that he said had tied Biden’s hands, as well as the quick and unexpected collapse of the Afghan government and security forces that led to the Taliban takeover on Aug. 15.
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