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2020-09-01 Afghanistan
Taliban ‘Probes’ Alleged Rocket Shelling of US Bases
[ToloNews] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
is investigating reports of rocket attacks on two military bases in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, according to front man Zabihullah, who said that fighters of the group have been ordered not to attack Americans.

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According to a New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

report, roughly a dozen rockets struck in late July around Camp Bastion, an air base used by Afghan and American forces in Helmand. And several rockets were fired within the last week or so at Camp Dwyer, a large US military base about 50 miles south of Bastion.
Boys will be boys.
"Based on the Doha agreement, the Taliban should not attack Americans so that they can process their withdrawal from Afghanistan," said Sayed Akbar Agha, a former Taliban commander. "But a start of attacks between the US and the Taliban can harm the grinding of the peace processor."

The rocket attacks did not cause casualties at the two bases where US forces were stationed.

Critics questioned why the attacks were leaked to the media one month after they happened.
*shrug* Someone at the New York Times was in need of a frisson that only publishing a leak would cause.
"They are investigating whether the attacks had connections with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Russia; therefore, the issue was made public a month after it happened," free-lance journalist Sami Yousafzai said.

The Defense Ministry said that in accordance with the peace agreement, US forces have evacuated five bases in Helmand, Ghazni, Paktia and Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
According to New York Times, Camp Bastion was once the logistics hub for US and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
troops in Helmand. Conjoined by the US Marine base Camp Leatherneck, the base was handed over to the Afghan cops in 2014.

Resolute Support did not comment on the Taliban attacks, but the Afghan government accused the Taliban of increased violence in the country.

"The one thing from the Doha agreement that was implemented by them (the Taliban) was that they did not attack Americans but now apparently they have violated this, too," presidential front man Sediq Sediqqi said at a presser on Monday.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
UN Secretary António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
in a recent report on Afghanistan to the Security Council called on parties to approach peace negotiations in a spirit of commitment and conciliation, with an inclusive process offering the best hope of a sustainable solution.
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