INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that American forces, during their 20 years presence in Afghanistan, were not fighting
terrorism, adding they created organizations which later became al-Qaeda.Lavrov made the remarks in an interview Sunday for a documentary
film dedicated to the 25th anniversary of NATO&s aggression against Yugoslavia.He recalled that after the September 11, 2001 attacks, US
forces marched to Afghanistan with a &sympathetic& UN Security Council.&No one objected or called the deployment of US-led troops to
Afghanistan an aggression or invasion,& he said
&Everyone understood that the perpetrators of a terrorist attack like this had to be held accountable.&However, 20 years in Afghanistan have
shown that the Americans were not fighting terrorism, Lavrov claimed.&They created agencies and organisations there, which later became
Then they began to use it to punish and provoke undesirable regimes in the Middle East and other regions,& he added.The remarks come two
days after an attack on a concert hall near Moscow left 137 people dead and 182 others injured
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