The US alleges the new Taliban Government of Afghanistan includes terrorists.
So who are the alleged terrorists in the Taliban Government and what are the allegations against them?
Mulla Mohammad Hasan Akhund – Taliban Prime Minister of Afghanistan;
Hasan Akhund is a politician and a religious leader, more than a military leader. Al Jazeera, reports that Akhund has authored several works on Islam.
Mohammad Hasan Akhund, was Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan during the first Teliban government, Akhund was put on a UN sanctions blacklist for “acts and activities” of the Taliban in 2001, principally for ordering the 2001 destruction of two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan.
Sirajuddin Haqqani; Taliban Interior Minister of Afghanistan.
A military leader during the war, Sirajuddin Haqqani ls alleged to have coordinated and participated in attacks against United States and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Haqqani was also allegedly, involved in the planning of the assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai in 2008. The US has a US $5 million bounty for Huqqani’s assassination or capture.
“The Taliban 5”
(Captured by US forces in Afghanistan and transported to Quantanamo Bay military Prison in Cuba. ‘The Taliban 5’ were interned as ‘Enemy Combatants’ a class of prisoner invented by the US authoriies to evade Geneva Conventions on the humane treatment of prisoners of war.
While held in US custody, though secretly charged with undisclosed terrorist activities, the ‘Taliban 5’ were never put on trial, or convicted of any terrorist offences by the US government, before being released.
All of the ‘Taliban 5’ are now ministers in the new Taliban Government
Mohammad Fazil – Deputy Defence Minister;
Mohammad Fazil was never put on trial for any terrorist offences while in US custody.
Mullah Noorullah Noori – Borders and Tribal Affairs Minister;
Both Noori, (and Fazil), are alleged to have carried out massacres of ethnic Shia Hazara, Tajik, and Uzbek communities in Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998 Noorullah Noori was never tried for these crimes before being released from Quantanamo Prison.
Mullah Abdul Haq Wasiq – Director of Intelligence;
Wasiq is accused of participating in military operations against the Western Coalition.
Wasiq is also accused of including a greeting to Al quada in letter written to his brother from prison. Wasiq was not tried for these alleged crimes before being released.
Khairullah Khairkhwa – Taliban Minister of Information and Culture;
Khairkhwa was charged by the US of drug trafficking and of being a close associate of al Qaeda, allegations Khairkhwa denies. Khairkhwa was released from Quantanamo without trial.
Mohammad Nabi Omari; Governor of Eastern Khost Province.
Mohammed Nabi Omari was one of 71 individuals held in Qauntanamo deemed too innocent to charge, Released without trial.
On these grounds the US Biden government has frozen all Afghanistan government accounts, effectively sabatoging the Afghanistan economy already badly damaged by decades of war. With no money to pay for the salaries of public servants. Drs, nurses teachers, police and administrators, have all been left unpaid.
As well as this the private banks have also had their accounts effectively frozen by the US punitive action against the Taliban government. As a result normal Afghani citizens cannot withdraw money to buy food or pay their bills, effectively amounting to collective punishment of all Afghanis.