Afghanistan

Afghans want to be left alone. So do Englishmen by and large. Do they get their wishes? Not a chance. The Americans are there ramming peace down their throats using rifles, bombs, aircraft, land mines, you name it. Why? Bush claimed that his friend Osama was there. So what? It made an excuse to invade.


The people of the area are largely Pathans, the word Rudyard Kipling used for them; his ayah tongue was Hindi. English, his mother tongue came later. Now they seem to be called Pashtun - see #Pashtun Tribes. There are up to 400  tribes, divided into clans.

The American invaders included a large segment of the Lunatic Fringe. Some were well meaning social engineers. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction really existed. It was run by a Washington lawyer, John F. Sopko. Was he stupid enough to believe the nonsense or cunning enough to take the money? All is explained by Cockburn at Did ‘Gender Studies’ Lose Afghanistan. Did Americans really spend $787 million gender programmes to convert Islamic hill men into well meaning lefties? See for yourself as a nice looking young woman tries to explain conceptual and Marcel Duchamp to 6th Century, illiterate women.

 

Losing In Afghanistan
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Anger and shame assailed me when I was reading

Losing Small Wars: anger with a corrupt Prime Minister (Blair) for the lies used to justify the deployment of British forces to Iraq and Afghanistan and the professional collusion of senior officers and the security services in the dissemination of the lies; and shame for the untold misery inflicted on Iraqi and Afghan civilians, the deaths and maiming of our soldiers and the lies used to comfort their families and to mislead the public. As if this was not bad enough, we are confronted at every turn in these badly judged deployments with far too many examples of incompetent political and military leadership in theatre. With all these failings and the scale of the invasion and occupation in Iraq, and the NATO mission in Afghanistan, Ledwidge's title hardly does justice to what is revealed. In any case these are hardly ‘small wars’: the lying alone was and remains even now on a mass industrial scale.

If, having read Losing Small Wars, I had to identify the single most important failing about the disastrous British interventions in Iraq and, currently Afghanistan, it would be the failure on the part of the British government and its military advisers to spell out quite clearly why the British armed forces were ever deployed to these two parts of the Middle East. Factor out the obvious lies disseminated by Blair and his political-military clique that Iraq was armed with weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and that these weapons posed a threat to Britain and there was no justified reason for Britain’s ever having had anything to do with the US-led invasion of Iraq.
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Frank Ellis, lately of the Parachute Regiment and SAS comments on murderous evil.

 

Worse than a Defeat [18 December 2014]
James Meek tells us at some length that the British high command and political establishment  really did not know what they doing in Afghan. Going there to side with the 'government' and destroy their staple crop, Opium were bad enough. Being hated from before the Battle of Maiwand in 1880 made matters worse. Clan rivalry, tribal rivalry, low cunning, feuds were just part of the mix. Having no men who spoke the local languages left them wide open to manipulation. The locals are not stupid, far from it. Men were used and abused. The generals had an agenda, looking good to the Americans without having the men or materiel to back them up.

He mentions two major tribes, the Barakzai & Alizai. Brits annoyed both. Then there were the labels, mujahedin, 'government’, communist, Taliban, even the ‘pro-British’ label. They were useful for tribes wanting weapons, money, advantages over rivals. Did the Brits learn anything? Did they even learn that they knew nothing? I doubt it.

 

Afghanistan Post Mortem  [  22 March 2014 ]
Gwynne Dyer, lately a lecturer at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst says "Mission Not Accomplished" Mr. Dyer is right. What was the mission? He doesn't know either. Blair & Bush lied us into war. Brown & Cameron kept us there. They killed 448 Brits.
PS The real reason may have been building a pipeline for oil - see Afghanistan, Big Oil And Truth. It makes sense if the natives can be pacified. They can't, so it doesn't but thousands are dead, millions have been destroyed at a cost of maybe trillions.

 

Afghanistan In Pictures
It looks almost beautiful in a very bleak way when a good photographer does what it takes.

 

Casevac
Men go out, men die, men see casualties. Do they ask why? They really should.

 

Killing For Fun in Afghan
Another My Lai in the making methinks. But the public relations furore has not kicked off yet.

 

Michael Yon Tells It Like It Is
Michael Yon has enemies in the US Army as a result. The public relations bods don't like someone telling the truth. The men think he is all right.
PS His pictures are good too.

 

US Interests In Central Asia Are Oil, Oil, Oil [FEBRUARY 12, 1998 ]
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U.S. INTERESTS IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS
FEBRUARY 12, 1998
Mr. BEREUTER. I would like to proceed to the subject of the hearing for today, U.S. interests in the Central Asian Republics. I do have a statement. One hundred years ago, Central Asia was the arena for a great game played by Czarist Russia, Colonial Britain, Napoleon's France, and the Persian and the Ottoman Empires. Allegiances meant little during this struggle for empire building, where no single empire could gain the upper hand. One hundred years later, the collapse of the Soviet Union has unleashed a new great game, where the interests of the East India Trading Company have been replaced by those of Unocal and Total, and many other organizations and firms.
    Today the Subcommittee examines the interests of a new contestant in this new great game, the United States. The five countries which make up Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, attained their independence in 1991, and have once again captured worldwide attention due to the phenomenal reserves of oil and natural gas located in the region
    Stated U.S. policy goals regarding energy resources in this region include fostering the independence of the States and their ties to the West; breaking Russia's monopoly over oil and gas transport routes; promoting Western energy security through diversified suppliers; encouraging the construction of east-west pipelines that do not transit Iran; and denying Iran dangerous leverage over the Central Asian economies.......

    To begin, you may ask why is the United States active in the region? The United States has energy security, strategic, and commercial interests in promoting Caspian region energy development. We have an interest in strengthening global energy security through diversification, and the development of these new sources of supply. Caspian export routes would diversify rather than concentrate world energy supplies, while avoiding over-reliance on the Persian Gulf..........

    Four factors frame our policy. First, promoting multiple export routes. The Administration's policy is centered on rapid development of the region's resources and the transportation and sale of those resources to hard-currency markets to secure the independence of these new countries. Accordingly, our government has promoted the development of multiple pipelines and diversified infrastructure networks to open and integrate these countries into the global market and to foster regional cooperation......

    In general, we support those transportation solutions that are commercially viable and address our environmental concerns and policy objectives. Based on discussions with the companies involved, a Baku-Ceyhan pipeline appears to be the most viable option.....

Switching geography slightly, what is the status of proposals by Unocal and others to build a gas pipeline through Afghanistan to Pakistan?
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Translation: They have oil. We want oil. We are prepared to go to war to get it. Spending billions, killing thousands; we do what it takes. Obama wants Oil. Osama is an excuse.

 

Afghanistan Invasion Explained - It's Oil [ 12 July 2009 ]
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The second option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges. The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades, and is still divided by civil war. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company..........

Unocal foresees a pipeline which would become part of a regional system that will gather oil from existing pipeline infrastructure in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia. The 1,040-mile long oil pipeline would extend south through Afghanistan to an export terminal that would be constructed on the Pakistan coast. This 42-inch diameter pipeline will have a shipping capacity of one million barrels of oil per day. The estimated cost of the project, which is similar in scope to the trans-Alaska pipeline, is about $2.5 billion........

Last October, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline Consortium, called CentGas, in which Unocal holds an interest, was formed to develop a gas pipeline which will link Turkmenistan's vast Dauletabad gas field with markets in Pakistan and possibly India. The proposed 790-mile pipeline will open up new markets for this gas, traveling from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Multan in Pakistan. The proposed extension would move gas on to New Delhi, where it would connect with an existing pipeline. As with the proposed Central Asia oil pipeline, CentGas can not begin construction until an internationally recognized Afghanistan Government is in place.
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This evidence was given to the American Congress back in 1998. The 9/11 Job was just an excuse.

Starship Troopers was the name of a book by Robert A Heinlein - Libertarian. Pipeline Troopers are different.


Was the election corrupt? Of course. So what? Afghans have their own perfectly good system of government. They do not like being harassed by high tech hooligans.

 

Americans In Afghanistan Make It Worse, Not Better Says America Envoy [ 14 November 2009 ]
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U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan tells Obama: Don't send any more American troops, it will make things WORSE..... Karl Eikenberry said that bolstering the American presence in Afghanistan could make the country more reliant on the U.S. The former army general expressed his concerns in a series of forcefully worded messages to Washington, sent before Mr. Obama's strategy meeting yesterday. The developments underline U.S. scepticism about the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whose government has been dogged by corruption..........

The war is now in its ninth year and is claiming U.S. lives at a record pace as military leaders say the Taliban has the upper hand in many parts of the country.
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Just why are the Americans there? The British National Party will get our men out soonest. Ditto for Iraq

 

Afghanistan Big Oil And Truth [ 11 April 2010 ]
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It has been revealed in the Indian media that efforts will be made to speed up the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project next weekend [ Efforts on to revive TAPI gas pipeline project ], the outcome of which could seal the fate of thousands of British and other Western troops over the coming years. The conference, to be held in Turkmenistan’s capital, Ashkhabad, will be the first high-level meeting on the project for almost three years. It follows in the wake of Operation Moshtarak, the military offensive to wrest Afghanistan’s strategically important Helmand Province, through which the proposed pipeline will be built, from Taliban control.
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You might wonder just why it is that British troops are going to protect a pipeline through enemy territory to supply India. Remember that Falklands oil is not on stream yet. The Foreign Office tried to get rid of it. Maggie beat them but their treachery cost men's lives. Now it is all happening again.

 

General Says Don't Abandon Afghanistan [ 11 May 2011 ]
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The west must state clearly that it will not abandon Afghanistan after the handover of security to local forces in 2014 or risk further fighting in the region from an emboldened Taliban, the commander of British forces in the country has warned. In his first interview since becoming second in command of the International Security and Assistance Force (Isaf), General James Bucknall told the Guardian "now is not the time to blink", and pleaded for more patience in the decade-long campaign because progress was being made.
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The man is stupid or misquoted. Afghan peasants want to run their own lives. If that means killing each other and playing with little boys that is their affair. Otto von Bismarck said that "The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier." He was not a sentimental old fool or a trigger happy hooligan. The men should be pulled out now, not later. Of course Bucknall might find himself on the dole queue. It is a price I would be delighted to pay.
PS Now that Osama is allegedly dead the original excuse for invading is gone. The Army should be gone with it.

 

American Casevac In Afghanistan [ 30 July 2010 ]
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As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood
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Casevac [ casualty evacuation ] looks rough but it is probably as good as it ever can get. When men start seeing and when their mothers starting seeing they might ask just why they are being used as cannon fodder. When that happens the generals can forget their promotion. That is why they try to suppress the truth. If you think they are telling it like it is look at 73,846 Men Dead In Iraq. More on this one at Casevac. The pictures are in glorious Technicolor®

 

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/apache-apocalypse-real-faces-of-war.htm
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From Michael Yon. Source unknown. Three(?) fresh dead, two American.  http://www.michaelyon-online.com/apache-apocalypse-real-faces-of-war.htm

It was a suicide bomber, yes. It was a new developing tactic in our AO. They would outfit a couple of suicide vests on a couple of guys, put them on motorcycles, then let them drive around until they found a target of opportunity.

The Afghan with the camera was only one of many. It occurred close to an Afghan news station, TV and Radio. The journalists poured out of the building with their cameras, still photo and video, and documented everything. A couple of journalists were on scene when it happened.

It was one of those missions to build partnerships and help improve the lives of the local villagers. 12 civilians were also killed, including an 8 year old child. Several Afghan policemen were also killed along with the Command Sergeant Major (equivalent) from the Afghan army unit partnered with us.

 

Britain Got Almost Everything Wrong In Afghan
http://www.arrse.co.uk is written by men who were there. They know what happened.
In 2008-9, I was in a mentor role based out of Kandahar covering the whole of the 205 Corps AOR (included Helmand and Nimruz before 215 Corps ANA was formed). A few things stick in my mind from that time:

1. The more competent senior officers tended to be those that had been originally trained by the Russians (though with a few idiosyncracies, such as getting grids wrong as they did them the Russian way or having a penchant for vodka).

2. The Pashtun Officers liked to have a map of greater Afghanistan on display. This tended to include all Pashto areas in Pakistan as well with a frontier on the Indus river.

3. The local population genuinely believed that the British were back to avenge their loss at the Battle of Maiwand - 27 July 1880. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Maiwand

4. The little war fought between two neighbouring ANP checkpoints over a catamite chai-boy.

5. Flying about the Corps AOR in rickety MI-8 / MI-17 Hips.

6. The feeling that despite our best efforts, we were pissing in the wind.

7. Oh and a story from an RAMC Officer about having to educate a tribesman who was beating up his wife for not getting pregnant. He had thought shagging her up the jacksie was normal and was aghast that he had to put his dick somewhere where she regularly bled from.

 

Teenagers Lost To Afghanistan   [ 27 October 2014 ]
 
Three of them were in the Parachute Regiment.
Theirs not to wonder why
Theirs but to do and die

If any question
Why we died
Tell them because
Our fathers lied

 

453 Men Did Not Come Back From Afghanistan [ 3 December 2014 ]
Why did they go? There must have been a reason, a good reason. There was a story about man with a silly hat living a cave who killed 3,000 people in New York using the 9/11 Job. But that was just a fairy story, an excuse, wasn't it? Then there was the real reason, or was it? Afghanistan Invasion Explained - It's Gas. Draw a line on the map between gas fields and New Delhi. Ignore the hill men in between. It sounds plausible in an office somewhere, thinking about gigabucks flowing. Afghans are first rate fighting men when they are irritated, which is to say usually. Oh well, soldiers are volunteers. More will be along. Who cares? Not corrupt little swine like Blair who never served & was never going to.
PS There was a woman among the fallen.

 

Suicide Bomber Attack NATO Invaders In Kabul Killing Eight [ 4 May 2017 ]
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least eight civilians were killed early Wednesday in a suicide attack against a military convoy, which was near the U.S. embassy and NATO compound in Kabul, Afghanistan.............

An investigation of the attack, which is still in its early stages, indicates that the Haqqani network is behind the bombing. However, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attacker is said to have been targeting a convoy of NATO-helmed Resolute Support vehicles close to Massoud Square in the city center, igniting at a NDS checkpoint. At least eight have died and a further 25 wounded, officials said.

A military source told Fox News the bomber pretended to be a construction worker, with tools and a uniform, and when the convoy arrived he pressed the button.

More than an hour later, smoke could still be seen bellowing through the grey sky from the bomb site as scores of military aircraft hovered close by.
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A suicide bomber must be very annoyed about something. Having Western powers invading his country, killing, maiming destroying sounds good enough to me and lots of them.

 

Pointless War In Afghanistan Drags On While Afghans Infest Western Civilization  [ 19 September 2018 ]
Mark Steyn explains so very well about America's longest war - 17 years of scrapping over worthless land while Afghans are given refuge and bring their hate to the heart of civilization.

 

American Officials Lied Systematically About Their War Being Lost In Afghanistan For 18 Years  
The Deep State wanted war in Afghanistan. They got it. The 9/11 Job was just an excuse. Colluding with the Zionist crazies of Mossad was part of it. Why do you think that the Dancing Jews were there filming it? 3,000 people were murdered while the Military-Industrial Complex makes billions. In fact it might well be trillions by now. Believe it? That is where The Washington Post story leads although they are skating over the Jews' involvement.

 

Girl Kills Two Afghans And Wounds More  [ 22 July 2020 ]
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An Afghan girl has shot dead two Taliban fighters and wounded several more after they dragged her parents from their home and killed them for supporting the government. Insurgents in the central province of Ghor stormed the home of teenager Qamar Gul last week looking for her father, the village chief, before shooting her parents.

Gul then emerged from the house with her family's AK-47 and opened fire, killing the two Taliban fighters who gunned down her mother and father and injuring several others.  
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Her father was some kind of political weirdo, what with supporting the government but the lass did well. Aimed shots are so much more effective than spray and pray. The Armed Citizen paid off.

 

The War In Afghanistan Is Being Privatized  [ 25 April 2021 ]
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Last week President Biden announced a “full” US withdrawal from Afghanistan – the longest war in US history – by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States. While this announcement is to be welcomed, the delayed US withdrawal may result in Americans and Afghans dying needlessly for good PR optics back home. We all remember how many Americans died after President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” stunt in Iraq.

The war has been a disaster from day one. So why wait to end it?.................

A recent article in the Military Times lays out the massive disaster of the US two-decade war on Afghanistan: more than two trillion dollars spent – much of it going to fund crooked practices in Afghanistan and here at home. And even worse, the Cost of War Project has estimated that a quarter of a million people have been killed in the war.

We do applaud President Biden’s decision to ignore the demands of all the neocons who have flocked to support his Administration, but as is most often the case, when it comes to Washington you have to really read the fine print when something sounds too good to be true. In this case, the fine print is that the US will not actually be leaving Afghanistan at all. As a recent article in The Grayzone points out, the Afghan war will continue with US special forces, CIA paramilitaries, and guns-for-hire taking the place of US soldiers. The war is not going to end, it’s just going to be “privatized.”
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Ron Paul writes. Ron tells the truth. He didn't get to be the POTUS, sad to say but he is a good medic.

 

Taliban Gouge Mother's Eyes Out - It Is Our Fault - Allegedly  [ 14 August 2021 ]
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A mother's eyes gouged out and young girls kidnapped as sex slaves: Female Afghan politician [ sic ] SHUKRIA BARAKZAI - who survived a suicide bomber attack - despairs at the West's betrayal of Afghan women
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Yes, it's all our fault. They are Noble Savages who don't know any better. Or they are Islamics. It is all there in the Koran, isn't it? That is why Johnson & Patel import them.

 

PARAS sent to rescue Britons in Afghanistan   [ 15 August 2021 ]
The first time the British Army had to do it on foot. The Afghans let one man get through, to pass the bad news after a massacre at Gandamak That was the 1842 Retreat From Kabul. Did Her Majesty's Government learn from experience? No. They were first class enemy fighting on their own ground. Did they want foreign intruders? No. Did they tolerate them? No! There is a lesson there for us, for White Men, oppressed by Quasi-Intellectuals, an Establishment controlled by the Puppet Masters.

 

Biden Says Americans Are Incapable Of Leaving Afghanistan Properly  [ 19 August 2021 ]
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President Joe Biden angrily defended his handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan saying on Wednesday that chaos was unavoidable - comments which were immediately seized on as shameful by his critics.

Speaking to ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Biden defended the US withdrawal, which saw the Afghan government crumble and fall to the Taliban just 11 days later.

On Wednesday the US military evacuated approximately 1,800 individuals on ten C-17s. Since August 14, nearly 6,000 people have been taken out of Kabul. Biden told ABC News said he wants to rescue 15,000 Americans, and up to 65,000 Afghan refugees who helped the US military operation. 

'The idea that somehow, there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing — I don't know how that happens,' he said.

His remarks were met with disbelief. 
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Nobody was stupid enough to believe him. The world's biggest, most expensive army, one costing billions fouled up big time & publicly. They couldn't conceal the truth, not this time.

 

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Denies All Responsibility For Afghan Exit  [ 19 August 2021 ]
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said Wednesday there was 'nothing' defense officials saw that would indicate Kabul would fall to the Taliban in such a short time. 

'Intelligence clearly indicated multiple scenarios,' Milley said, adding that some estimates predicted a matter of weeks, months or years before the Taliban would take control of the nation's capital. 
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Milley is not a dangerous fool; he is a dangerous thug. Tucker Carlson tells us that Milley Should Be Fired. I feel that he should be given a court martial and put in GITMO for life.

 

Taliban Commandeering Girls & Women For Its Fighters  [ 22 August 2021 ]
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Taliban's latest diktat comes as it gains control of many key districts and border posts with Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan after US and NATO troops complete their pullout from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years.

The Taliban, fighting with Afghanistan forces to take control of a large part of the war-torn country, has issued a statement ordering local religious leaders to give them a list of girls over 15 years of age and widows under 45, reports have said. According to reports, the Taliban has promised for them to be married to their fighters and taken to Pakistan's Waziristan, where they will be converted to Islam and reintegrated.

"All imams and mullahs in captured areas should provide the Taliban with a list of girls above 15 and widows under 45 to be married to Taliban fighters," the letter issued in the name of the Taliban's Cultural Commission said, according to the Sun.

Also read | Taliban offers Afghan government 3-month ceasefire in exchange for release of prisoner

The latest diktat comes as the Taliban has gained control of many key districts and border posts with Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan after US and NATO troops complete their pullout from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years. Afghan security forces and military have put up little or no resistance after often being left without supplies or reinforcements.

Before this, women in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Takhar were asked not to step out from their homes alone and men were asked to grow beards as they also set dowry regulations for girls as the Taliban are enforcing their version of Islamic law.
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The men writing for the Hindustan Times understand the area but read "ask" as demand. The British Army never did anything like that for us.

 

The Army Rumour Service Comments On The Afghan Cock Up   [ 22 August 2021 ]
The British Army has been there too many times to be misled by Generals, ministers, academics, journo-scum, etc. NB Cnut is spelt thus to help the dyslexic.

 

The New Statesman Comments On The Afghan Betrayal   [ 22 August 2021 ]
Its views are not without a degree of merit but ignore one vital aspect. Keeping vicious aliens, Illegal Immigrants out of America makes lotsa sense. Biden's failure is deliberate, it is Treason & pandering to the Puppet Masters, the ones based in Tel Aviv.

 

British Top General Gives Glowing Assessment Of Taliban Success  [ 22 August 2021 ]
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British Top General Glowing Assessment of Taliban…

Who are by measurement of success more competent than the Pentagon + DoS + Intelligence Community + White House + NATO. If we just skip to bottom line, Taliban walk away with all Gold Medals, and their faces on cereal boxes.
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Michael Yon [ been there, done that including too many firefights in Afghan ] tells us that the intelligence community chose to ignore the truth. Now reality has shown through. The CIA will need to find new sources for Opium & other Narcotics. They are the world's biggest drug dealers. You doubt it? Alfred McCoy told us all about in his book, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. Professor McCoy is a respected historian. The Daily Mail went the other way on General Carter. See the next one.

 

General Sir Nick Carter is branded a 'Taliban apologist' after suggesting group 'has changed'  [ 22 August 2021 ]
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The 'Daily Mail' says what it wants. Read it if you want. Believe it if you want. Readers have mixed views, depending too much on Mainstream Media waffle written far from the scene of the action.

 

Christopher T. Donahue
Major General Donahue, commanding the 82nd Airborne Division was the last man out of Afghanistan. Thus he followed the example of Lieutenant General Alexander Lebed, who was the last Russian out in 1989.

 

 


Pashtun Tribes ex Wiki
The Pashtun tribes (Pashto: پښتانه قبايل‎), historically also known as Afghan tribes, are the tribes of the Pashtun people, a large Eastern Iranian ethnic group who use the Pashto language and follow Pashtunwali code of conduct. They are found primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan and form the world's largest tribal society, comprising over 49 million people and between 350 and 400 tribes and clans.[1][2][3][4][5] They are traditionally divided into four tribal confederacies: the Sarbani (سړبني), the Bettani (بېټني), the Gharghashti (غرغښتي) and the Karlani (کرلاڼي).
Folkloric genealogies trace the descendants of the Pashtuns to Qais Abdur Rashid and his three sons Saṛban (سړبن), Bēṭ (بېټ), and Gharghax̌t (غرغښت) as well as an adopted son, not directly adopted by Qais Abdul Rashid, therefore, the identity of Karlan himself and the man who adopted him, according to some books written on the history of the Pashtuns, is either unclear or controversial,[6] the Karlani confederacy Ormur Baraki, who became the progenitor of the Karlani.[7]:33

There are several levels of organisation of Pashtun tribes. The "tribe" is subdivided into kinship groups, each of which is a khel and zai. A khel or zai is further divided into plarina, each of which consists of several extended families.[8] A large tribe often has dozens of subtribes whose members may see themselves as belonging to each, some or all of the sub-tribes in their family tree depending upon the social situation: co-operative, competitive or confrontational.[9]

 

Ethnic Groups In  Afghanistan ex Wiki
Afghanistan is a multiethnic and mostly tribal society. The population of the country consists of numerous ethnolinguistic groups: Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashai, Nuristani, Gujjar, Arab, Brahui, Qizilbash, Pamiri, Kyrgyz, Sadat and others. The Afghan National Anthem and the Afghan Constitution each mention fourteen of them, though the lists are not exactly the same.

National identity
The term "Afghan" is synonymous with the ethnonym "Pashtun", but in modern times the term became the national identity of the people, who live in Afghanistan.[2][3]  The national culture of Afghanistan is not uniform, at the same time, the various ethnic groups have no clear boundaries between each other and there is much overlap.[4] Additionally, ethnic groups are not racially homogenous. Ethnic groups in Afghanistan have adopted traditions and celebrations from each other and all share a similar culture. For example, Nauruz is a New Year festival celebrated by various ethnic groups in Afghanistan.

Inbreeding is in the nature of life in Afghanistan. If a girl does not live within walking distance she is unlikely to meet a boy. Do they speak the same language? If not, forget it. All of this leads to Incest.

 

Did ‘Gender Studies’ Lose Afghanistan? 
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Twenty years of war in Afghanistan are over. What comes next is 20 years, or even more, of recriminations and blame for why the war ended as it did. Scholars and partisans still argue over the reasons America lost in Vietnam, so why should Afghanistan be any different?

On the plus side, the debate promises to be far more interesting. When it comes to Vietnam, partisans debate rules of engagement, bombing strategies, funding levels and the Tet Offensive. With Afghanistan, the question could be: did gender studies cause America to suffer its most humiliating defeat ever? Cockburn wishes he was joking.

Traditionally, nations have waged war by mustering armies, defeating their enemies in battle, and despoiling their lands and cities. Only after total victory is the process of remaking a society feasible.

But America in Afghanistan sought a shortcut, and by ‘shortcut’ Cockburn means ‘something that takes 10 times as long but doesn’t look as nasty for TV cameras’. America hoped that with enough half-baked social engineering in the half of Afghanistan it controlled, it would eventually be rewarded with victory, and Afghanistan would become the Holland of the Hindu Kush. On Ivy League campuses, students are taught to decry ‘colonialism’, but the Ivy League diplomats who sought to remake Afghanistan in Harvard’s image were among the most ambitious practitioners of it in world history.

So, alongside the billions for bombs went hundreds of millions for gender studies in Afghanistan. According to US government reports, $787 million was spent on gender programs in Afghanistan, but that substantially understates the actual total, since gender goals were folded into practically every undertaking America made in the country.

A recent report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) broke down the difficulties of the project. For starters, in both Dari and Pastho there are no words for ‘gender’. That makes sense, since the distinction between ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ was only invented by a sexually-abusive child psychiatrist in the 1960s, but evidently Americans were caught off-guard. Things didn’t improve from there. Under the US’s guidance, Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution set a 27 percent quota for women in the lower house — higher than the actual figure in America! A strategy that sometimes required having women represent provinces they had never actually been to. Remarkably, this experiment in ‘democracy’ created a government few were willing to fight for, let alone die for.

The initiatives piled up one after another. Do-gooders established a ‘National Masculinity Alliance’, so a few hundred Afghan men could talk about their ‘gender roles’ and ‘examine male attitudes that are harmful to women’.

Police facilities included childcare facilities for working mothers, as though Afghanistan’s medieval culture had the same needs as 1980s Minneapolis. The army set a goal of 10 percent female participation, which might make sense in a Marvel movie, but didn’t to devout Muslims. Even as America built an Afghan army that ended up collapsing in days, and a police force whose members frequently became highwaymen, it always made sure to execute its gender goals.

But all this wasn’t just a stupid waste of money. It routinely actively undermined the ‘nation-building’ that America was supposed to be doing. According to an USAID observer, the gender ideology included in American aid routinely caused rebellions out in the provinces, directly causing the instability America was supposedly fighting. To get Afghanistan’s parliament to endorse the women’s rights measures it wanted, America resorted to bribing them. Soon, bribery became the norm for getting anything done in the parliament.

Instead of rattling off anecdotes, perhaps a single video clip will do the job. Dadaism and conceptual art are of dubious value even in the West, but at some point some person who is not in prison for fraud decided that Afghan women would be uplifted by teaching them about Marcel Duchamp:
https://youtu.be/wdrvpSfJM1w [ Classes on conceptual art for post-taliban Afghan women ]
Watch the video, and you can see the exact point (specifically, 31 seconds in) where the American mission in Afghanistan dies.
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Twenty Years In Afghanistan   [ 25 August 2021 ]
The Beatles get up to date.

 

Organ Transplants In Afghanistan   [ 26 August 2021 ]
You need a new kidney? Go to Afghanistan to get one. Poor people are desperate; they get paid $3,000. You, as the customer pay a lot more but then you must be desperate too. Russia Today explains, apart from the bit about how you get there.

 

American Kit Transferred To The Taliban  [ 26 August 2021 ]
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Possible Partial List of Equipment "Transferred" to Taliban
"The list comes from FreedomSheWrote on SafeChat. Not confirmed, but I would suspect this is very partial from other sources on this. We supplied the Taliban better than many of our allies that pay for it." - JBS Editor.

-2,000 Armored Vehicles Including Humvees and MRAP’s
-75,989 Total Vehicles: FMTV, M35, Ford Rangers, Ford F350, Ford Vans, Toyota Pickups, Armored Security Vehicles etc.
-45 UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters
-50 MD530G Scout Attack Choppers
-ScanEagle Military Drones
-30 Military Version Cessnas
-4 C-130’s
-29 Brazilian made A-29 Super Tocano Ground Attack Aircraft

=208+ Aircraft Total!!

-At least 600,000+ Small arms M16, M249 SAWs, M24 Sniper Systems, 50 Calibers, 1,394 M203 Grenade Launchers, M134 Mini Gun, 20mm Gatling Guns and Ammunition
-61,000 M203 Rounds
-20,040 Grenades
-Howitzers
-Mortars +1,000’s of Rounds
-162,000 pieces
of Encrypted Military Communications Gear
-16,000+ Night Vision Goggles
-Newest Technology Night Vision Scopes
-Thermal Scopes and Thermal Mono Goggles
-10,000 2.75 inch Air to Ground Rockets
-Reconnaissance Equipment (ISR)
-Laser Aiming Units
-Explosives Ordnance C-4, Semtex, Detonators, Shaped Charges, Thermite, Incendiaries, AP/API/APIT
-2,520 Bombs
-Administration Encrypted Cell Phones and Laptops ALL operational
-Pallets with Millions of Dollars in US Currency
-Millions of Rounds of Ammunition including but not limited to 20,150,600 rounds of 7.62mm, 9,000,000 rounds of 50.caliber
-Large Stockpile of Plate Carriers and Body Armor
-US Military HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment Biometrics
-Lots of Heavy Equipment Including Bull Dozers, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, Excavators

#AmericaIsBack #BuildBackBetter  #WhatAJoke
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This list is speculative but almost certainly on the right lines. It is enough to start a war; that is why it is there. The British Army wouldn't have left it like that. Destroying aircraft is not difficult.

 

Afghans Are Not World's Leading Rapists  [ 31 August 2021 ]
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Here’s some good news about Afghanistan. If you drew up a “Toxic Top Ten” of the worst possible places to receive migrants from, Afghanistan wouldn’t be #1. I think that honour would go to Somalia. Now some bad news about Afghanistan. It could be well #2 or #3 in the Toxic Ten. It’s #2 for rape convictions in Denmark, but Denmark doesn’t have the honour of having been enriched by importing large numbers of Pakistanis. The Western politicians, journalists and charities now enabling the “evacuation” of Afghans into the West should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
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Our rulers want Third World aliens imported by the thousand. They are the Enemy Within, they are Traitors creating Trojan Horses to destroy Western Civilization. We know that  Boris Johnson uses Patel & Border Force to import anyone going for a swim at Calais. They are tools of the Puppet Masters, the Zionist crazies who hate us.

 

Evacuations From Afghanistan By Country ex Reuters   [ 31 August 2021 ]
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Britain's last military flight left Kabul late on Saturday after evacuating more than 15,000 people in the two weeks since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the defence ministry said.
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So Johnson is admitting to giving us 15,000 more potential rapists. Aren't we lucky? They are in addition to the thousands of Pakistani Perverts who have so much fun raping English girls in Rotherham and other sad little towns.

 

Taliban Helping Americans Evacuate Kabul   [ 2 September 2021 ]
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KABUL, April 30 (Reuters) - Taliban fighters have protected western military bases in Afghanistan from attacks by rival, or rogue Islamist groups for over a year under a secret annex to a pact for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces by May 1, three Western officials with knowledge of the agreement told Reuters.

The U.S. State Department gave no immediate response to Reuters over the existence of any such document. Nor did it have any immediate comment on what the three officials described as a "Taliban ring of protection". Since United States struck a deal with the Taliban in February 2020, paving the way for America to end its longest war, there have been no U.S. combat deaths, and there have been only isolated attacks on U.S. bases.

Instead, the Taliban intensified attacks on Afghan government forces, and civilian casualties have spiralled.............

Testing Taliban patience, U.S. President Joe Biden served notice that the U.S. withdrawal would overshoot the May 1 deadline agreed by the previous U.S. administration, while giving an assurance that it would be completed by Sept. 11 - the 20th anniversary of the al Qaeda attacks on the United States.
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American retreat was agreed over a year ago, when Donald Trump was in the White House. The delays were caused by de facto Mutiny of the American high command. The head thug, Mark Milley has had over a year, since February 2020 to do what it takes, moving men & materiel out. He should be given a fair trial and shot or LWOP [ life without parole ] in GITMO. This story was ignored by the Mainstream Media. It is not so exciting, newsworthy as the one about desperate victims of Third World ruffians. The truth came second again.  NB CNN admitted on 1 September that Taliban Members Escorted Americans To Gates At Kabul Airport In Secret Arrangement With US.

 

Afghan Army Collapsed Due To Major Corruption
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How come the most lavishly and expensively armed and equipped army in Central Asia dropped their guns, abandoned their tanks, stripped off their uniforms and ran from the rifle-only Taliban with a speed hardly known in military history? As usual, the real reason is embarrassing. It was the corruption. Many of the Afghan national army had not been paid for months and had hungry families. More to the point, the US-donated ammunition had not arrived.

Well, the money for its purchase had, but it had been embezzled by officialdom. I have ranged Africa and Asia, including Kabul, and seen the corruption first-hand. That is a real pandemic and it is almost universal beyond Europe and North America.

Britain’s generosity is exemplary. We donate wherever there are the sick, hungry and impoverished. We donate for hospitals and schools. But foolishly, we give the money at government level. Most of it never reaches the ­hungry or the sick. Bent politicians divert it to phoney schemes which just happen to be run by their brothers.

At the top level everybody knows this but no one mentions it. The embassies and high commissions hold their glittering ­receptions in mansions and our Foreign Office mandarins and their diplomats beam at each other.

The mutual contempt is universal but masked by flattering smiles and lofty titles. There is a way to change this but it would need courage of the sort only possessed by those with the VC pinned to the left breast... and there are precious few of those on the payroll.

What I mean is to lay down new terms of donorship. British food aid will be handed out by British Tommies off the back of British lorries. British contractors will build the dams, dig the wells, pump the fresh water, erect the schools, equip the hospitals. British administrators will distribute British generosity to the sick, poor, hungry and needy.

Or…? Well, or aid will be discontinued.

There would be screaming outrage in every corrupt regime over two continents and it would take a steely nerve to confront it and not scuttle.

See what I mean about Victoria Crosses? That’s why it will never happen. But that is why the Afghan army ran.
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Frederick Forsyth tells the truth in spite of having been a BBC reporter but I think there is more to it than wholesale thieving. Afghans are tribesmen, with some 400 tribes, many languages. Nationalist they are not. The men of their National army worked out that they had joined the wrong lot & that it was time to go home with that nice new M16, good boots etc. Were they wrong? No.

 

State Department Still Blocking Americans From Leaving Afghanistan  [ 4 September 2021 ]
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Michael Yon.

We have Americans with blue passports ready to leave Afghanistan. Taliban will allow landing. US Department of State blocking flights. Rick Clay’s team has three jets ready. These jets were on ground on 30 August 2021.

Senator Johnson’s team called us and we on conference call right now.

Our government is blocking taking out Americans from Afghanistan. Taliban is helping. US State Department blocking...............

I told Michael by text message that none of this is surprising and I still believe there is more than meets the eye.  I do not believe any of this is due to incompetence or accident.  This is all intentional.  Every bit of it.

The Taliban are begging for U.S. diplomats to return to Kabul.  In fact, they’re not begging for it, they’re demanding it.  You see, they want to be recognized...............

They want to rule, they want money.  Yes, they want aid.  And they want gas pipelines to run through Afghanistan from Turkmenistan to Pakistan (something they’ve wanted for a long time), and they want mining of the precious metals and gems, and they want a cut of all of that money.  They want to live in big homes like rich people, and they want to sit in front of cameras and look important.

And guess what – they’ll get it.  Leaving Americans in Afghanistan is the perfect pretext for the State Department to return so that “diplomatic solutions to our problems can be worked out.”  The State Department wants to recognize the Taliban.  They’re another Muslim people to court, and the State Department has never seen an America-hating Muslim people they don’t love.
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This article is speculative but is it wrong? As Otto von Bismarck is thought to have said:- Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Lots of people are going to be making excuses for a long time. Mark Milley is just one of them.

 

American State Department Blocking Kabul Rescue Flights  [ 7 September 2021 ]
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The US State Department has been accused of blocking dozens of Americans from fleeing Afghanistan after failing to tell the Taliban it had green-lighted charter flights. 

On Sunday, Reuters reported that the delay had been caused by Biden administration officials not telling Taliban leaders it had approved the departures of the chartered flights from an airport in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, 260 miles north of Afghan capital Kabul.

An exasperated flight organizer hit out at the State Department over the fiasco, saying: 'They need to be held accountable for putting these people's lives in danger.' 

Other groups trying to organize their own chartered flights have also hit out at the State Department, with Rick Clay from private rescue firm PlanB claiming the organization is the only thing stopping him fulfilling his brief.

Two other organizers have also torn into the Anthony Blinken-headed department, with one - who didn't give their name - telling Fox:: 'This is zero place to be negotiating with American lives. Those are our people standing on the tarmac and all it takes is a f****ing phone call.
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Michael Yon is in contact with Americans on the ground & would be rescuers. What is the problem? The State Department is part of the Deep State with agendas. Americans come down the line.

 

American Army Blocking Evacuations From Kabul   [ 9 September 2021 ]
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The US commanders in charge of evacuation abandoned dozens of American citizens at the gates of Kabul airport amid a chaotic rush to leave Afghanistan, US war correspondent and former special forces soldier Michael Yon told RT.

On Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain was forced to acknowledge that around 100 Americans still remained in the turbulent country a week after the Biden administration’s August 31 deadline to get everybody out expired.

Former special forces soldier-turned-journalist Michael Yon, who was among the volunteers helping to airlift Americans out of Afghanistan, has shared with RT some disturbing details of how holders of US passports were left behind by their own military.

On August 30, Taliban members delivered a mother with three children as well as 45 other American citizens to the gates of Kabul airport. Three civilian jets, which had been paid for by volunteers, were waiting for them at the airfield.
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What is the game? The State Department is part of the Deep State and deeply corrupt. Why are the Taliban coming across as reasonable? Will the truth emerge. We do know who set up The 9/11 Job. At an irreducible minimum the Dancing Jews were there to film the attacks, They knew it was going to happen. Did they warn their American friends? No! Russia Today reports. Michael Yon tells it like it is.
PS There are five aircraft on the ground waiting for people to ship out - see United States Government Forcing Citizens To Stay In Afghanistan.

 

The Taliban Could Get Up To 150 Pakistani Nuclear Weapons After America's Catastrophic Retreat From Afghanistan Alleges John Bolton   [ 28 September 2021 ]
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The Taliban could get their hands on up to 150 nuclear weapons after America's catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, former Trump security advisor John Bolton has warned. ............

'The Taliban in control of Afghanistan threatens the possibility of terrorists taking control of Pakistan … that means maybe 150 nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists,' he said.

The US completed a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 31, leaving behind military equipment that has already been seized by the Taliban, after the Islamists swept to power in a lightning offensive of the country.

Pakistan has an arsenal of approximately 160 nuclear warheads including 102 land-based missiles and F-16 combat aircrafts with 24 nuclear launchers.
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It is easy to see why Bolton is a former advisor when he makes utterly stupid claims like that. Be aware that he is very aggressive but it was different in the time of Vietnam. .. He was all for it - as long as he was nowhere near it. His life was too precious. He left that to red necks, hill billies, patriots and other mugs. They were cannon fodder; he had better things to do, just like Clinton & Trump. Rich man's war, poor man's fight.

 

Taliban Might Demand Billions In Reparations From Western Invaders  [ 11 October 2021 ]
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The Taliban are set to demand the UK and other nations pay billions in reparations to Afghanistan for the 20-year war for after they took over the country.

The Islamist government will urge Britain to make the payments imminently, reports suggest, and the Taliban believe the UK will cave to their demands. Veterans who fought in Afghanistan have slammed any request for reparations by the Taliban, who have executed dissidents, tortured prisoners and forced women into hiding since seizing power, as an 'outrage'.

Noor Mohommad Mutawakel,  from the Taliban's Ministry of Information and Culture, told The Mirror: 'Britain is ready to pay us war reparations, and we welcome that. Other countries involved in the war must also be prepared to pay.'

While Mutawakel appeared confident the UK will pay reparations, a Whitehall source case doubt on whether it will happen. 
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One can see their point to some extent. The American invasion without a Declaration of War is a breach of International Law as well as the American Constitution, just like Viet Nam, Grenada etc. It would make sense to run it past the International Criminal Court; a bunch of third rate wasters but it would be amusing. They would ask questions about Casus Belli, the case for war.

 

Afghan Murdered Wife After Paying $15,000 For Her  [ 10 December 2021 ]
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The mother of a young Afghani woman who was murdered by her husband has been accused of forcing her daughter into an arranged marriage for a $15,000 payment. 

Sakina Muhammad Jan, 45, is facing a single charge of causing another person to enter a forced marriage, and faced a court hearing for the first time on Wednesday. 

Police will allege Ms Jan pressured her daughter Ruqia Haidari, 21, to marry 25-year-old Uber driver Mohammad Ali Halimi in November 2019. The couple met just four times before they were married in front of hundreds of guests just outside of Shepparton, 180km north of Melbourne, in a community hall in Mooroopna. 
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She refused to do what wives are supposed to do & that price you can see that he might have felt annoyed. Did he get his money back? Pass.

 

Afghan Rapist And Murderer Avoiding Extradition  [ 7 January 2022 ]
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A Channel migrant who drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl before killing her has tried to use a legal technicality to stay in the UK, a court heard today.  

Afghan-born Rasuili Zubaidullah, 23, is accused of drugging and raping teenager Leonie Walner whose body was found rolled up in a carpet in the Austrian capital of Vienna last June.  Leonie met Zubaidullah and one of his accomplices at the Danube Canal, Vienna, on June 25 last year.

The three took ecstasy and went back to Zubaidullah's apartment in Donaustadt, in Vienna's 22nd district, where they were joined by two other men, 18 and 23.

The men allegedly gave the schoolgirl more drugs to 'make her compliant' before brutally raping her and rolling her body up in a carpet. She was then dumped on the street about 100 metres from Zubaidullah's apartment, an extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.............

At a hearing today, his lawyer Ben Keith objected to his extradition under Section 12A of the Extradition Act 2003, by claiming Zubaidullah has 'not yet been charged or tried' in Austria.
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See if you can guess who is paying for him to live in England & who is paying for his lawyer.

 

Afghan Drug Addicts In Detox Clinics Become Cannibals  [ 4 February 2022 ]
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When the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan last year one of its first pledges was to clean up the country's drug problem - never mind that they spent years profiting off the very same opium people are now addicted to.  

Six months on from the take-over and the Taliban is keeping its promise, after a fashion: By rounding up thousands of homeless drug addicts and locking them in hospitals reminiscent of concentration camps for three months while they detox, cold turkey.

A look inside one such 'hospital', in Kabul, reveals inmates wasting away in horrifying conditions: Crammed in three-to-a -bed with little or no food, forced to eat grass to stave off hunger pains - amid rumours they have resorted to eating cats and even cannibalism in order to survive. 

Speaking to Danish journalists last month, one recovering addict told them: 'They killed a man and made a fire. They took his intestines and ate them.'

Another inmate, who gave his name as Abdul, said it is common for 'patients' to go days without food and that people routinely drop dead from hunger.
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To be fair, the Taliban seem to be trying. Of course they are not English Christian gentlemen. NB The Mail is censoring comments for some reason. The commentators are sympathetic. NB the gluteus maximus muscles of the backside are much better eating.

 

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