BREAKING: Days ahead of 9/11 anniversary, Pres. Trump announces that he was set to hold secret talks with the Taliban at Camp David in the US this weekend but he has called off the talks after a US service member was killed in a suicide attack in Kabul.
Trump tweeted that he was scheduled to hold a secret meeting with Taliban leadership and, separately, the president of Afghanistan, Sunday at Camp David. The United States has been working on a deal to pull troops out of the country that harbored 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden and, in the process, end the nation's longest war.
"I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations," Trump tweeted."What kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position?" Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday. They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to..The Kabul attack killed 12, including a Romanian soldier, and injured 42. The Taliban took credit.
"If they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important peace talks, and would even kill 12 innocent people, then they probably don’t have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway," Trump tweeted. The Taliban controls or heavily influences about half the country, and some U.S. officials fear it could invade the other regions.
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