“What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with al Qaeda gone?”
Joe Biden
President of the United States. White House. Claim dated 20 Aug 2021.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
In May, U.N. sanctions monitors reported that al Qaeda "is resident in at least 15 Afghan provinces.
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In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 20 August 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 August 2021. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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