Taliban chief negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai is seen delivering a speech at an "internal gathering” in Doha, Qatar, April 28, 2019, in a screen grab taken from video. (Screen grab by A. Gul)
VOA: Afghan Taliban Chief Negotiator: 'US on Verge of Defeat'
ISLAMABAD — The Taliban’s chief negotiator says in newly released remarks that the United States is on the verge of defeat and will quit Afghanistan soon “either of their own accord, or they will be forced out.”
Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai made the assertions in an April 28 speech to an “internal gathering” in Doha, Qatar, just two days before he led his team of insurgent negotiators into fresh talks with U.S. interlocutors. Pro-Taliban social media outlets Friday released video of Stanekzai's speech, one day after the U.S. special reconciliation envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, and his team wrapped up the week-long negotiations with Taliban representatives in the Qatari capital.
In the speech, Stanekzai praised what he called the bravery of the Afghan nation for defeating past British and Soviet invasions of their country and resisting the current foreign military presence, referring to the U.S.-led coalition, which is training and advising pro-government forces in battles against the Taliban.
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WNU Editor: The Taliban .... like the Afghan government .... are still far away from any victory. This conflict is now a stalemate, and a very bloody one at that.
