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It does, total hollywood crap. You can't just charter a flight into a warzone and fly people out through several sovereign nation's airspace and just land with a bunch of random people on your own initiative.
Taliban offensive of 2021 and collapse of Afghan government.
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That and one of the biggest mortuary conglomerates were just tossing shit in the landfills and pocketing money.
Not that anyone actually seemed to care.
Here's this story, which covers that Dover fucked around from 2003 on.
Remains of war dead dumped in landfill - The Washington Post
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There were other stories too.
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So…long term what does everyone think the geopolitical ramifications will be?
Obviously this is a big loss for India and win for Pakistan, but beyond that I’m kinda stumped. Iran doesn’t like the taliban but they aren’t incapable of working with them either, the stans are concerned with stability more than anything else(that is if they even have their own agendas separate from Chinese or Russian direction worth noting), uh maybe this inspires jihadists elsewhere?
But then again, jihadists in Syria are stuck in Idlib, jihadists in the Maghreb are a different bunch, and I just can’t really see how this will benefit Al Qaeda or Islamic insurgencies throughout the region in any substantial way.
Obviously this is a big loss for India and win for Pakistan, but beyond that I’m kinda stumped. Iran doesn’t like the taliban but they aren’t incapable of working with them either, the stans are concerned with stability more than anything else(that is if they even have their own agendas separate from Chinese or Russian direction worth noting), uh maybe this inspires jihadists elsewhere?
But then again, jihadists in Syria are stuck in Idlib, jihadists in the Maghreb are a different bunch, and I just can’t really see how this will benefit Al Qaeda or Islamic insurgencies throughout the region in any substantial way.
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Big win for China, they can roll in and cut deals like they are in Africa for those sweet rare earth metals. If they don't comply? Well we've seen that China ain't scared of a little genocide to get what they want either.
Expect a lot more kvetching from Israel soon too since this is a minor speedbump in their plans for Greater Israel and total hegemony of the Middle East(and the world)
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it's a win for china because america loses its position in one of their neghboring countries
it's a win for iran for the same reason
with america out of afghanistan, the way is clear for a direct land based trade route between iran and china. they might build pipelines, railway lines, highways for trucks, etc
and to a smaller degree, it's a win for russia because fewer american forces in their back yard is always nice
it's a loss for europe because more rapefugees (but that's mostly their own fault for refusing to turn them back at the border)
it's a loss for america because obviously
and to a smaller degree, it's a loss for every country that has any kind of local islamist problem because jihadists all over the world are emboldened and reinvigorated by the taliban triumph
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Rocket attack north of Kabul airport. One child reported dead.
*Edit* Reuters are saying this could be the result of a US drone strike. Conflicting information.
*Edit* Reuters are saying this could be the result of a US drone strike. Conflicting information.
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Between this and all the women and children the US soldiers butchered at the airport the other day maybe we'll get something special for the 20 year anniversary of 9/11.
You can only murder so many women and children without consequences, but maybe that's the whole point, to goad the locals into doing something so the US has justification for more war.
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Here's something I've been wondering: Can Afghanistan feed itself? Kind of crazy to think that the population doubled from 1960 to 2000, then doubled again after 09/11. Obviously Afghan dicks are going in things besides dancing boys. Will we be seeing famine now that the US has been ejected?
Rei is shit
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Interesting times ahead
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I'd say easily, those fuckers are pretty hardy and not like finicky blubber laden Americans, can probably survive on sacks of rice. How many sacks of rice a kilo of heroin could buy? Dudes just scored billions of .mil hardware, they are not starving for cash. West flows rivers of food as humanitarian aid, shit, some of it even goes to North Korea of all places. The only reason niggers keep starving in Africa are other niggers nigging them out.
I'd be more concerned with Taliban willingly doing population modifications like starving the fuck out some and chopping heads of others.
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Apparently last night the "didn't attend the transfer" shit was rumor mongering by some mid-tier news outlet. I'm forgetting the exact name but it was on par with POLITICO in reputability. If I could remember the blue checkmark I got it from I would shitlist them.
But then again, the Biden admin could have told them to put the caskets back on the fucking plane because he looks bad.
But then again, the Biden admin could have told them to put the caskets back on the fucking plane because he looks bad.
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that depends on your connections. Im pretty sure Erik Prince can do something like this.
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Hey idiots, debate in the dms and give me an update on the panjshir resistance
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Article: https://longisland.news12.com/taliban-us-airstrike-hits-suicide-bomber-targeting-airport
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US airstrike hits suicide bombers targeting Kabul airport
A U.S. airstrike Sunday targeted a vehicle carrying “multiple suicide bombers” from Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate before they could target the ongoing American military evacuation at Kabul’s international airport, officials said.
There were few initial details about the incident, as well as a rocket that struck a neighborhood just northwest of the airport, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce.
The strike came as the United States winds down a historic airlift that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul’s international airport, the scene of much of the chaos that engulfed the Afghan capital since the Taliban took over two weeks ago. After an Islamic State affiliate’s suicide attack that killed over 180 people, the Taliban increased its security around the airfield as Britain ended its evacuation flights Saturday.
U.S. military cargo planes continued their runs into the airport Sunday, ahead of a Tuesday deadline earlier set by President Joe Biden to withdraw all troops from America’s longest war. However, Afghans remaining behind in the country worry about the Taliban reverting to their earlier oppressive rule — something fueled by the recent shooting death of a folk singer in the country by the insurgents.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid earlier said in a message to journalists that the U.S. strike targeted a suicide bomber as he drove a vehicle loaded with explosives. Mujahid offered few other details.
Two American military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, called the airstrike successful. They said the strike caused “significant secondary explosions” indicating the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material in the vehicle.
The strike was the second by America since the airport suicide bombing. On Saturday, a strike in Nangarhar province killed an Islamic State member believed to be involved in planning attacks against the United States in Kabul. The strike killed one person, spokesman Navy Capt. William Urban said.
The rocket attack meanwhile struck Kabul’s Khuwja Bughra neighborhood, said Rashid, the Kabul police chief who goes by one name. Video obtained by The Associated Press in the aftermath of the attack showed smoke rising from building at the site around a kilometer (half a mile) from the airport.
No group immediately claimed the attack, however militants have fired rockets in the past.
Meanwhile, the family of a folk singer north of Kabul say the Taliban killed him.
The shooting of Fawad Andarabi came in the Andarabi Valley for which he was named, an area of Baghlan province some 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Kabul. The valley had seen upheaval since the Taliban takeover, with some districts in the area coming under the control of militia fighters opposed to the Taliban rule. The Taliban say they have since retaken those areas, though neighboring Panjshir in the Hindu Kush mountains remains the only one of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces not under its control.
The Taliban previously came out to Andarabi’s home and searched it, even drinking tea with the musician, his son Jawad Andarabi told the AP. But something changed Friday.
“He was innocent, a singer who only was entertaining people,” his son said. “They shot him in the head on the farm.”
His son said he wanted justice and that a local Taliban council promised to punish his father’s killer.
Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, told the AP that the insurgents would investigate the incident, but had no other details on the killing.
Andarabi played the ghichak, a bowed lute, and sang traditional songs about his birthplace, his people and Afghanistan as a whole. A video online showed him at one performance, sitting on a rug with the mountains of home surrounding him as he sang.
“There is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation,” he sang. “Our beautiful valley, our great-grandparents’ homeland.”
Karima Bennoune, the United Nations special rapporteur on cultural rights, wrote on Twitter that she had “grave concern” over Andarabi’s killing.
“We call on governments to demand the Taliban respect the #humanrights of #artists,” she wrote.
Agnes Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International, similarly decried the killing.
“There is mounting evidence that the Taliban of 2021 is the same as the intolerant, violent, repressive Taliban of 2001,” she wrote on Twitter. “20 years later. Nothing has changed on that front.”
Meanwhile on Sunday, private banks across Afghanistan resumed their operations. However, they limited withdrawals to no more than the equivalent of $200 a day.
While some complained of still being unable to access their money, government employees say they haven’t been paid over the last four months. The Afghani traded around 90.5 to $1, continuing its depreciation as billions of dollars in the country’s reserves remain frozen overseas.
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US airstrike hits suicide bombers targeting Kabul airport
A U.S. airstrike Sunday targeted a vehicle carrying “multiple suicide bombers” from Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate before they could target the ongoing American military evacuation at Kabul’s international airport, officials said.
There were few initial details about the incident, as well as a rocket that struck a neighborhood just northwest of the airport, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce.
The strike came as the United States winds down a historic airlift that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul’s international airport, the scene of much of the chaos that engulfed the Afghan capital since the Taliban took over two weeks ago. After an Islamic State affiliate’s suicide attack that killed over 180 people, the Taliban increased its security around the airfield as Britain ended its evacuation flights Saturday.
U.S. military cargo planes continued their runs into the airport Sunday, ahead of a Tuesday deadline earlier set by President Joe Biden to withdraw all troops from America’s longest war. However, Afghans remaining behind in the country worry about the Taliban reverting to their earlier oppressive rule — something fueled by the recent shooting death of a folk singer in the country by the insurgents.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid earlier said in a message to journalists that the U.S. strike targeted a suicide bomber as he drove a vehicle loaded with explosives. Mujahid offered few other details.
Two American military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, called the airstrike successful. They said the strike caused “significant secondary explosions” indicating the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material in the vehicle.
The strike was the second by America since the airport suicide bombing. On Saturday, a strike in Nangarhar province killed an Islamic State member believed to be involved in planning attacks against the United States in Kabul. The strike killed one person, spokesman Navy Capt. William Urban said.
The rocket attack meanwhile struck Kabul’s Khuwja Bughra neighborhood, said Rashid, the Kabul police chief who goes by one name. Video obtained by The Associated Press in the aftermath of the attack showed smoke rising from building at the site around a kilometer (half a mile) from the airport.
No group immediately claimed the attack, however militants have fired rockets in the past.
Meanwhile, the family of a folk singer north of Kabul say the Taliban killed him.
The shooting of Fawad Andarabi came in the Andarabi Valley for which he was named, an area of Baghlan province some 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Kabul. The valley had seen upheaval since the Taliban takeover, with some districts in the area coming under the control of militia fighters opposed to the Taliban rule. The Taliban say they have since retaken those areas, though neighboring Panjshir in the Hindu Kush mountains remains the only one of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces not under its control.
The Taliban previously came out to Andarabi’s home and searched it, even drinking tea with the musician, his son Jawad Andarabi told the AP. But something changed Friday.
“He was innocent, a singer who only was entertaining people,” his son said. “They shot him in the head on the farm.”
His son said he wanted justice and that a local Taliban council promised to punish his father’s killer.
Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, told the AP that the insurgents would investigate the incident, but had no other details on the killing.
Andarabi played the ghichak, a bowed lute, and sang traditional songs about his birthplace, his people and Afghanistan as a whole. A video online showed him at one performance, sitting on a rug with the mountains of home surrounding him as he sang.
“There is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation,” he sang. “Our beautiful valley, our great-grandparents’ homeland.”
Karima Bennoune, the United Nations special rapporteur on cultural rights, wrote on Twitter that she had “grave concern” over Andarabi’s killing.
“We call on governments to demand the Taliban respect the #humanrights of #artists,” she wrote.
Agnes Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International, similarly decried the killing.
“There is mounting evidence that the Taliban of 2021 is the same as the intolerant, violent, repressive Taliban of 2001,” she wrote on Twitter. “20 years later. Nothing has changed on that front.”
Meanwhile on Sunday, private banks across Afghanistan resumed their operations. However, they limited withdrawals to no more than the equivalent of $200 a day.
While some complained of still being unable to access their money, government employees say they haven’t been paid over the last four months. The Afghani traded around 90.5 to $1, continuing its depreciation as billions of dollars in the country’s reserves remain frozen overseas.
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Lol sure but taking a bunch of rapefugees while leaving actual citizens to be stranded for dead isn't historic in a positive light.
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Looks like the Afghani president cut and run like a fleeing felon.
© Alizadah/Xinhua via Getty Images Afghan president Mohammad Ashraf Ghani speaks in a televised address in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Aug. 14, 2021. Alizadah/Xinhua via Getty Images
The Post on Sunday reported on the chaos that engulfed the Afghan government in Kabul as militants swept into the outskirts of the city on August 15.
In Kabul and Washington DC, top officials had believed that there were weeks before the Taliban was likely to attempt to seize the capital.
But following the fall of the key provincial city of Jalalabad to Taliban militants on August 14, militants rushed the capital largely unopposed.
The report paints a surreal picture of events in the presidential palace, where officials believed Ghani would remain in power until August 31, the date of the full US military withdrawal, and would help negotiate a transitional government.
Officials told the Post that aides had gone for their lunch break when a top aide to Ghani told him, falsely, that Taliban militants had entered the palace and were searching for him room by room.
"It will either be your palace guards or the Taliban," the president was told, a senior advisor told the Post, "but if you stay you'll be killed."
Video: Taliban inside Afghan Presidential Palace in Kabul (The Independent)
Ghani reportedly asked if he could return home to collect some belongings, but was told there wasn't time and along with his wife and top aides boarded a helicopter that took off for Uzbekistan, where a plane took him to the United Arab Emirates.
When officials returned from lunch, they found he was gone and his office empty.
In fact, Taliban militants had not entered the palace but were honoring an agreement to remain on the outskirts of Kabul while an interim government could be negotiated.
Ghani was reportedly terrified of repeating the fate of the Afghan president when the Taliban last seized power in 1996, who was executed and strung up on a traffic-control post.
Ghani did not inform top government officials or US allies of his departure, according to the report, with the government then collapsing. A huge exodus of officials and Afghans who had worked for western organizations then attempted to flee the country, flooding into Kabul airport where scenes of terror and chaos have played out since.
Only the night before fleeing, Ghani had told Afghans in a televised national address that his main focus was to "prevent further instability, violence, and displacement of my people" and that he was seeking to regroup the Afghan military."
© AP Photo/Zabi Karimi Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. AP Photo/Zabi Karimi
A group of Taliban militants later on August 15 entered the abandoned presidential palace, where they gave a media interview.
Ghani in a message posted on Facebook later defended his decision to flee, saying he left the country "in order to prevent bloodshed."(HIS blood being shed. - JS)
He denied claims he had left the country with a suitcase full of cash. (His wife likely had the suitcase and the big bucks are in Swiss bank accounts. - JS)
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul so quickly fearing execution by the Taliban that aides who returned from a lunch break wondered where he'd gone
tporter@businessinsider.com (Tom Porter) 2 hrs ago
- A chaotic picture has emerged of the Afghan government's last days as the Taliban seizing power.
- President Ashraf Ghani fled when aides were on a lunch break, believing militants had entered the presidential palace.
- The collapse of the Afghan government sparked chaos, as hundreds of thousands attempted to flee Kabul.
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The Post on Sunday reported on the chaos that engulfed the Afghan government in Kabul as militants swept into the outskirts of the city on August 15.
In Kabul and Washington DC, top officials had believed that there were weeks before the Taliban was likely to attempt to seize the capital.
But following the fall of the key provincial city of Jalalabad to Taliban militants on August 14, militants rushed the capital largely unopposed.
The report paints a surreal picture of events in the presidential palace, where officials believed Ghani would remain in power until August 31, the date of the full US military withdrawal, and would help negotiate a transitional government.
Officials told the Post that aides had gone for their lunch break when a top aide to Ghani told him, falsely, that Taliban militants had entered the palace and were searching for him room by room.
"It will either be your palace guards or the Taliban," the president was told, a senior advisor told the Post, "but if you stay you'll be killed."
Video: Taliban inside Afghan Presidential Palace in Kabul (The Independent)
Ghani reportedly asked if he could return home to collect some belongings, but was told there wasn't time and along with his wife and top aides boarded a helicopter that took off for Uzbekistan, where a plane took him to the United Arab Emirates.
When officials returned from lunch, they found he was gone and his office empty.
In fact, Taliban militants had not entered the palace but were honoring an agreement to remain on the outskirts of Kabul while an interim government could be negotiated.
Ghani was reportedly terrified of repeating the fate of the Afghan president when the Taliban last seized power in 1996, who was executed and strung up on a traffic-control post.
Ghani did not inform top government officials or US allies of his departure, according to the report, with the government then collapsing. A huge exodus of officials and Afghans who had worked for western organizations then attempted to flee the country, flooding into Kabul airport where scenes of terror and chaos have played out since.
Only the night before fleeing, Ghani had told Afghans in a televised national address that his main focus was to "prevent further instability, violence, and displacement of my people" and that he was seeking to regroup the Afghan military."
A group of Taliban militants later on August 15 entered the abandoned presidential palace, where they gave a media interview.
Ghani in a message posted on Facebook later defended his decision to flee, saying he left the country "in order to prevent bloodshed."(HIS blood being shed. - JS)
He denied claims he had left the country with a suitcase full of cash. (His wife likely had the suitcase and the big bucks are in Swiss bank accounts. - JS)
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul so quickly fearing execution…
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I think (((they're))) doing this shit intentionally to provoke the Taliban so the Taliban attacks before the deadline and gives them a political excuse to stay longer.