Hours after the Taliban introduced the leaders of their interim government for Afghanistan on Tuesday, the U. S. State Department said it was “concerned” about the cabinet, which includes no women and at least one person on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s wanted terrorist list. The FBI currently lists a $10 million reward for information leading to the capture of Haqqani, after the Haqqani network — a U. S.-designated terrorist group founded by his late father — was blamed for multiple attacks in Afghanistan and tied to al-Qaeda.“We understand that the Taliban has presented this as a caretaker cabinet,” the State Department said. “However, we will judge the Taliban by its actions, not words. We have made clear our expectation that the Afghan people deserve an inclusive government.”The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan coincided with the U. S. military’s withdrawal after 20 years of fighting in the country. The group took over cities at a faster-than-expected clip as the U. S.-backed former Afghan government collapsed, and by mid-August, militants took control of Kabul for the first time in two decades. The Taliban promised to form an inclusive government, respect women’s rights and offer amnesty to Afghans who worked for U. S. forces, but many Afghans feared a return to the group’s brutal reign from 1996 to 2001, when women were largely barred from school and people who violated the group’s fundamentalist rules faced harsh punishment. Almost immediately after the group took over Afghanistan, reports emerged of Taliban members ordering women to leave work and engaging in menacing door-to-door searches for Afghans who collaborated with the former government and U. S. military, and two weeks ago, a spokesperson for the Taliban asked women to stay at home temporarily, claiming its fighters still needed to be trained to respect women. The Biden administration says it still hopes to evacuate roughly 100 U. S. citizens who remain in Afghanistan and want to leave the country, and an unknown number of Afghans who worked for the United States and fear Taliban reprisal are still in the country. Allowing these evacuees to leave will likely require cooperation from the Taliban. The State Department said Tuesday it will “hold the Taliban to their commitments to allow safe passage for foreign nationals and Afghans with travel documents.”
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Article Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/09/07/us-worried-about-members-of-new-taliban-cabinet---which-includes-minister-on-fbi-wanted-list/
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