Name:   Buteye - Subject:   Taliban Embassy Date:   10/25/2017 1:53:41 AM (updated 10/25/2017 3:00:46 AM)

Am I the only one who didn't know that Obama approved a "Taliban Embassy" in Daha, Qatar? The office serves as the terrorist groups "embassy". The office was established with the permission of the Afghan government in 2013, reportedly under  pressure from  the Obama administration. The decision to allow the office now home to twenty-something Taliban officials and their families, was met with fury from within the government of then-President Hamid Karzai, members of whom saw it as a massive capitulation to the enemy sworn to destroy their state. Afghan intelligence official Sunraise Kabuli was highly critical of the office's existence, saying that "The Taliban considered the Qatar office political "recognition" for them and they erected the Islamic Emirate flag there. The office was supposed to be about ending "violence", but years after opening, it is used for fundraising and running "private businesses".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The Taliban had portrayed the office as an "embassy" for an alternate Afghan state, flying their black and white flag and referring to it as the "Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" until U.S. and Qatar pressure fortced a change. The Taliban has never ceased trying to create the same impression of legitimacy and sent five "delegates" from the Qatar office to meet with Chinese government officials in Beijing this year. The office has found itself in the sights of President Trump and the continued existence of the office is a topic of negotiation as Secretary of State Tillerson and U.S. Deoartment of State officials make their tour of the region. The ultimate decision on the continued presence of the Taliban, however, lies with the Qatari governement who, despite close ties with the American military, have a long history of providing a safe harbor for political Islamic groups.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Remember when President Obama described the Islamic terrorist groups as the JV. Just another one of his many missteps during his eight years. No wonder so much of President Trump's few months in office have been trying to offset eight years of Obama "rule". It also looks like there is much more to come relative to events now finally being investigated during the tenure of Obama, Holder, Hillary, Comey, Podesta, Lynch, Rosenstein, and others.