Taliban offensive of 2021 and collapse of Afghan government.

mr.moon1488 said:
That first video is from an ISIS execution that happened in Iraq best I can recall.
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My bad. I trusted the uploader. I've deleted it now.

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Twelve US soldiers among 60 dead in 'ISIS suicide bomb' attack at Kabul airport as THIRD blast is heard: NATO countries start to pull the plug on evacuations - but PM insists UK flights WILL continue​



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Twelve US servicemen killed in two bomb blasts outside Kabul Airport

The Abbey gate of the Hamid Karzai airport was targeted and there were also reports of gunfire as panicked Afghans and foreigners try to escape Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
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The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack at Kabul airport.

The claim came in a message posted on their news outlet's Telegram channel.

The group said a suicide bomber - who they identified - detonated an explosives vest among Afghans and US forces.

US Defence officials have also said they believe regional IS militants were behind the bombing.

In other news...

President Joe Biden will address the nation at 1700 EST (2200 BST) White House officials have told reporters.

He has been criticised for his handling of the US withdrawal and will now have to address the first US military casualties in Afghanistan since early last year.

 
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A lot of the US citizens still in Afghanistan are NGOs or dual-citizens.

The golden neckbeard said:
So ISIS and Taliban are fighting each other apparently...

Glowies know what to do: Time to airlift cash and weapons to Taliban. Start the whole process over again lmao

My money in unironically on ISIS. only because their ruthlessness in which we saw them spread years ago so quickly. They absolutely have a bigger appeal than Taliban to Islamists
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attractive_pneumonia said:
France and the US have been saying they had indications there was going to be an attack for a day or two, if you roll back you Twitter feed to maybe as far back as Monday and search. One of the more sketchy things we did was request the Taliban "checkpoints" further away from the airport, which they complied to. By widening the security cordon they made it more porous, the Taliban fighters were clubbing people and whipping people who had no business approaching the airport and likely would have been the people blown up rather than the airport itself. The Hotel almost certainly would still have been hit.

Strange how things just conveniently align like this after the CIA Director requested it.
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Yeah I knew this was coming. That's the real reason The Taliban were telling everyone GTFO by the end, they knew some shit was going to happen and didn't want it on them.

Also I'd put my money on the Tali's. They BTFO out of ISIS before, and are likely to get America Senpai support in shutting them down. Can't be any worse than the guys Obama armed in Syria.


WinchesterWhiskey said:
I'm still kinda sad knowing that Jamsheed got killed in an ambush while working with US forces. :(

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Jamsheed, the RPG God-Boss

An absolute legend I seen In the Afghan war documentary, "The Fighting Season".**I started streaming on twitch! www.twitch.tv/feedsuotv come watch me be a pl...
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What? All the heroes are dead....
 
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Diana Moon Glampers said:
No more planes are currently inbound to Kabul.

This is the endgame. Only a few pieces left on the board.
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endgame in chess, starts when one player sees the path to victory or defeat, clearly enough that it's just mechanics. I think that point happened a while back, but most of us, just like rookie players won't see it until there is an actual checkmate on the board. The end of planes is the checkmate.

The Last Boyscout said:
of course not - tho in the Biden thread of 'news' it will be fun to watch them squirm, at the very least. who knows, maybe tonight's the night the prez suffers a stroke on camera due to all this stress.
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I'm not sure Veg in chief can do it. What is dead can not die.
 
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I'm going to admit it.

Until literally yesterday, I thought maybe there was some secret plan.

The military branches, the alphabet agencies...I thought, you know, these people can't really be this clueless. There's a plan but part of the plan is about looking clueless.

It was a cope. A cope because once upon a time I was a little kid who went to the Fourth of July parade and ran to scoop up the peppermints thrown from the parade floats full of veterans. A cope because even when our politicians have been absolute trash fires, I have known so many fine military service members that it seemed like they'd be on the ball, even when Washington was letting us down.

I believed in the US military more than I believed in the US government overall.

But that was just an illusion. No one's coming for those people. There's no last-minute rescue, just dying in the ditch like a dog.
 
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Diana Moon Glampers said:
I'm going to admit it.

Until literally yesterday, I thought maybe there was some secret plan.

The military branches, the alphabet agencies...I thought, you know, these people can't really be this clueless. There's a plan but part of the plan is about looking clueless.

It was a cope. A cope because once upon a time I was a little kid who went to the Fourth of July parade and ran to scoop up the peppermints thrown from the parade floats full of veterans. A cope because even when our politicians have been absolute trash fires, I have known so many fine military service members that it seemed like they'd be on the ball, even when Washington was letting us down.

I believed in the US military more than I believed in the US government overall.

But that was just an illusion. No one's coming for those people. There's no last-minute rescue, just dying in the ditch like a dog.
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My buddy James who works with veterans within the firearm community is feeling the same way and is hurting over the fact that he feels he can't help a lot of the guys he's come really close with. He's given speeches on some things he's been through and does his best with telling them that if they just make their voices heard it'll mean something.

He's kind of a suicidal wreck right now and feel like he's failed them because even he's not believing that anyone's up there listening.
 
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