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2021-06-03 Afghanistan
Over 100 Taliban fighters killed in the past 24 hours: MOD
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Defense Ministry said that more than 100 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
bad boyz were potted in fighting between government forces and the Taliban turbans across the country.

The Defense Ministry stated that festivities between Afghan government forces and the Taliban have left more than 100 turbans dead.

The MoD also added that in these operations, 50 turbans were maimed, a number of weapons were seized and some amount of ammunition was destroyed.

According to the Ministry of Defense, these operations were conducted in the past 24 hours in Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
, Kunar, 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..
, Ghazni, Paktia, Maidan Wardak, Khost, Zabul, Badghis, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, Faryab, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, and Baghlan provinces.

35 types of mines were planted in different parts of the country were also defused, MOD said.

The violence and insurgency have dramatically increased recently, however, the Taliban have not yet officially declared their spring offensive, but practically they have started attacking ANA checkpoints and convoys in several locations throughout the country.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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#1 highly doubt these kill numbers in the last few days
Posted by Chris 2021-06-03 00:19||   2021-06-03 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I have no idea how close reported numbers in Afghanistan have ever been to reality, Chris, but they’re the only numbers we have.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-03 00:39||   2021-06-03 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 
Good , Alan gives you 72 raisins and a dirt nap for eternity... you forgot about the revered ISSA = Jesus to the rest of the world, you numb nuts. Read the Koran - you may learn somethimg before the century is spent, you missed it for 1600 years,,,wake up.
Posted by Count Galeazzo Crinese2942 2021-06-03 00:56||   2021-06-03 00:56|| Front Page Top

#4 #1 and #2 These inflated numbers allow the Afghan MoD to report how well they are doing in the 'fight for democracy' with your money. And the five sided puzzle boys get the justification to skim from billions in 'financially aid' for the Afghan government. The Taliban gain from false reporting on their decreasing numbers, and the shock and awe when they still keep winning. Win-win-win.

Taliban still controls almost 1/5th of this hellhole and reaps 'taxes' through proxies and functionaries in even the government controlled areas. They don't have elaborate needs or ambitions for Afghanistan or its people, all they crave is dominion, and that comes through fear. The people themselves, a third of them actually favour the taliban and their characteristic deobandi moslemness over any liberal democratic utopia the rest have in mind.

I believe DJT realized all this and one of his major impeachment-worthy crimes was obstructing this enterprise in favour of the American citizens' interest. Because the old game must go on. Of aiding and abetting standard South Asian corruption, selling both liberals and conservatives back home a story about 'annihilating evil', presenting fantastic reports to Congress to approve billions in aid. While both the Taliban and any democracy these hopelessly sunni bastards can build are guaranteed to be a blight on humanity.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-03 06:03||   2021-06-03 06:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Generally a wasted effort, both in Iraq and AFT? Brings to mind....Nicholas Wade's A Troubled Inheritance, Page 14:

But in situations where culture and political institutions can flow freely across borders, long enduring disparities are harder to explain. The Brisk and continuing pace of human evolution suggests a new posibility: that at the root of each civilization is a particular set of evolved social behaviors that sustain it, and these behaviors are reflexed in the society's institutions. Institutions are not just a set of arbitrary rules. Rather, they grow out of instinctual social behaviors, such propensity to trust others, to follow rules and punish those who don't, to engage in reciprocity and trade, or take up arms against neighboring groups. Because these behaviors vary slightly from one society to the next as the result of evolutionary pressures, so too may the institutions that depend on them.

This would explain why it is so hard to transfer institutions from one society to another. American institutions cannot be successfully implnted in Iraq, for instance, because Iraqis have different social behaviors, including a base in tribalism and a well-founded distrust of central government, just as it would be impossible to import Iraqi tribal politics into the United States.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-03 07:19||   2021-06-03 07:19|| Front Page Top

#6 it would be impossible to import Iraqi tribal politics into the United States

BLM?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-03 07:25||   2021-06-03 07:25|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Yes, good catch. "Impossible" is indeed a ...very long time. I believe it is referred to here at the Burg as "de-civilization." I differ with Wade on this and a few other of his assumptions. Not many, but a few.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-03 07:40||   2021-06-03 07:40|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ As the proposition goes: "You put a teaspoon of wine in a barrel of sewage, you get sewage. You put a teaspoon of sewage in a barrel of wine, you get - sewage..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-03 12:04||   2021-06-03 12:04|| Front Page Top










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