[EN.RIA.RU] The Western pullout from Afghanistan is taking place at the time when the country needs international assistance most, a Pak journalist and expert on the Taliban told RIA Novosti on Monday.
"The withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan comes at the worst possible moment, when there is a full-scale Taliban offensive aimed at capturing major territory in southern Afghanistan," Ahmed Rashid said, adding that the new government "needs all the support from the international community."
The UK Defense Ministry announced on Monday that the country's armed forces had left the final camp in the Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... Province, in Afghanistan.
The withdrawal occurs when the Afghan economy is going through a crisis and lack of funds as well as in the absence of a regional agreement for non-interference in Afghanistan by its many neighbors, the expert noted.
Britannia has had a military presence in Afghanistan since October 2001, when troops deployed as part of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... response to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom. A total of 453 British soldiers have been killed during the 13 years.
About 34,000 NATO troops remain in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban insurgency alongside Afghan soldiers and police. NATO's combat mission will end in December.
In September, Washington and Kabul signed an agreement formally justifying the presence of a limited US military contingent in Afghanistan, after new Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. was sworn into office. A follow-up force of some 10,000 troops is likely to stay throughout 2015 on training and support duties.
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What Afghans (and all Muslims) need is genetic engineering---to enable them to empathize with non-relatives.
The new Emir of the self-proclaimed Caucasus Emirate (CE), located in Russia’s North Caucasus region, is making changes to the modus operandi of the organization. Ali Abu Muhammad (Aliaskhab Kebekov) was originally appointed as qadi, or senior Islamic judge, in October 2010. After the death of Doku Umarov in September 2013, the group appointed Abu Muhammad as Emir in March 2014 (apparently, it had taken the group some time to confirm the death of Umarov). In recent media releases, Abu Muhammad has given notice of a number of new policies, and provided official comment on several pressing issues for the insurgency...
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Yeah, I'm betting they're not sitting around Grozny waiting for Mother Russia to send them a CARE package.
(Ahmad, let's watch from this mountaintop over here..)
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[PJMedia] An extensive report shows how U.S. law enforcement missteps and dangerous policies keep getting people killed.
A nice round-up of various "lone wolf" jihadis and their extensive connections within the jihad milieu, going back to 2004. Lots of links. We had the stories here at Rantburg at the time, but it's good to know the rest of the story. Good work by Patrick Poole.
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Jews and Christians are considered dangerous by the leftwingnuts who currently "Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue" because such beliefs undermine their agenda for complete control.
"Lone Wolf" is one of those myths perpetrated by the apparachiks. If one checks all of these Lone Wolfs, it seems there are linkages to Imams preaching terrorism or radical mosques or radical groups such as AQ or ISIS. Of course there are the mental cases too.
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They are very scary people, but why does their flag look like a pigs face? With the little dingleberries on the writing looks like the eyes, even little curly-q tail in the back.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
