Biden pledges to prevent any terrorist threat in Afghanistan and his country’s forces continue to withdraw and hand over their bases

US President Joe Biden has pledged that the United States will continue to monitor and disable any terrorist threat that arises in Afghanistan, at a time when US forces have handed over a military base to Afghan forces, with the US Chief of Staff expecting the withdrawal of his country’s forces to be completed before September 11th.

Biden stressed – in a statement released by the White House marking the 10th anniversary of the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden – that his country will remain vigilant about the threats of terrorist groups spread around the world. Read also The murder of Hamza bin Laden … the end of the journey to succeed the father in the family and the organization Foreign Affairs: What does the US withdrawal from Afghanistan mean?A withdrawal with a taste of defeat … a battle in Washington over the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan Foreign Policy: This is what the Biden administration can do to prevent chaos in Afghanistan even after its withdrawal

The US President emphasized that facing these threats will be in cooperation with allies and partners around the world, explaining that Al Qaeda in Afghanistan has deteriorated significantly.

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Biden said that his country had fulfilled its promises to track down Al Qaeda and its leaders in Afghanistan, and it would not back down from its commitment to prevent another attack after the “September 11” attacks.

Bin Laden was killed

“We chased bin Laden to the gates of Hell, and we got from him,” Biden said in the statement. “We have fulfilled our promise to all those who lost their loved ones on September 11 … We will never forget those we lost, and the United States will never back down from our commitment to prevent another attack on our homeland,” he added.

Biden, who announced last month that he would end Washington’s longest war by September 11, praised former President Barack Obama for agreeing in 2011 to the covert operation that targeted the Al Qaeda leader, and praised the Special Forces that carried out it in Pakistan.

The US President added that watching the operation remotely from a crowded room in the White House was “a moment that I will never forget; the intelligence experts who patiently tracked him, the clarity and conviction of President Obama in making the call, the courage and skill of our team on the field.”

An ambiguous future

In turn, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said that his country’s forces will likely complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan before the date of September 11.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Milly acknowledged that the Afghan government forces face an uncertain future after the withdrawal of US forces.

He added that there is still a possibility to reach a negotiated political settlement between the government in Kabul and the Taliban movement, and that this would avoid the massive civil war that some feared will happen, as he put it.

Delivery rules

For his part, an official at the Afghan Defense Ministry told Al-Jazeera that US forces had handed Afghan forces over to the “Antonik” military base in Helmand Province (southern Afghanistan).

The official added that the Afghan special forces would use this base in combating terrorism and countering Taliban attacks in southern Afghanistan, and he also spoke about the return of US forces to Bagram base

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On Saturday, the United States began withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan, 20 years after its invasion of the country, while the Taliban movement condemned the delay of this step beyond the specified date, and said that its fighters are waiting for the movement’s leadership’s decision to make the appropriate response.

Al-Jazeera correspondent quoted an Afghan Defense Ministry official as saying that the process of handing over the American bases to the Afghan government has begun, and joint committees have been formed to supervise this. Advertising

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan was scheduled to be completed by May 1, according to the agreement that the administration of former US President Donald Trump signed with the Taliban in the Qatari capital, Doha, in February 2020.

But US President Joe Biden announced last month – after reviewing the situation – that the withdrawal would begin on May 1 and continue in an orderly and gradual manner, to be completed by September 11th.