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For months there has been speculation on the “regeneration” of Al-Qaeda and its allied groups in Afghanistan. The counter-jihadist lobby, which benefits from an eternal war and has a vested interest in painting the picture in Manichean terms, ignores the complexities of a situation that could evolve in different ways.
Professional counter-jihadists point to the Qaedist approval of the agreement between the Taliban and the Americans and the celebration of the Western withdrawal as proof of the factual inseparability between the Taliban and the Qaedists.
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