Afghanistan’s first vice president, Amrullah Saleh, said on Tuesday that after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country after the Taliban rebels occupied the capital, Kabul, he was “legal” in Afghanistan. Guarding the President”.
Saleh said at a security meeting hosted by Ghani last week that he is proud of the armed forces and that the government will do everything it can to strengthen resistance to the Taliban.
But the country was occupied by the Taliban within a few days, instead of the months foreseen by the US intelligence services.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Saleh said
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He called on Afghans to show that Afghanistan “is not Vietnam, and the Taliban are far from even the Viet Cong.”
A video of desperate Afghans trying to board a U.S. military plane about to take off is reminiscent of a 1975 photo of people trying to board a helicopter on the roof of Saigon during the withdrawal from Vietnam.
Saleh said that unlike the United States and NATO, “we have not lost our spirit and have seen great opportunities in the future. The useless warning to join the resistance group has been completed.”
Saleh, whose whereabouts are unknown, said that he would never bow to the “Talib terrorists” “under any circumstances.” He said he “never betrayed” the leader of the Northern Alliance, Ahmed Shah Masood, who was assassinated by two al-Qaeda agents before attacking the United States on September 11, 2001.
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