Media: US and Taliban held a meeting after the elimination of the leader of Al-Qaeda*

Go to media bank Representatives of the political council of the Taliban* . File photoWASHINGTON, Oct 9Representatives of the United States and the Afghan Taliban * (which is under UN sanctions for terrorism) held their first meeting on Saturday after the liquidation in Kabul of the leader of the international terrorist group Al-Qaeda * (banned in Russia) Ayman al-Zawahiri, CNN reports. citing two sources. According to them, the meeting in the capital of Qatar, Doha, was attended by the deputy director of the CIA and a senior State Department official in charge of the Afghan direction. The Taliban delegation included their intelligence chief.UN seeks to encourage Taliban* to disassociate from al-Qaeda** «The presence of CIA Deputy Director David Cohen and (Abdulhak) Vazik of the Taliban* at Saturday's meeting indicates that the focus was on counter-terrorism issues,» The parties have not met since the end of July, when an American drone was eliminated in the Afghan capital by al-Zawahiri, who led al-Qaeda ** after the death of Osama bin Laden. * The organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities. ** Terrorist organization banned in Russia.The United States is using Al-Qaeda * and the Taliban** for their own purposes, Patrushev said