The ISKP’s numerous atrocities do not justify the Taliban’s horrific response. Taliban forces have repeatedly carried out summary executions and other war crimes against people in their custody and have yet to hold those responsible to account. https://t.co/YgOtMwjJt6
Taliban ...Arabic for students... security forces have summarily executed and forcibly disappeared alleged members and supporters of an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... offshoot in eastern Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, residents of Nangahar and Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... s east of Kabul have discovered the bodies of more than 100 men dumped in canals and other locations.
Taliban forces have carried out abusive search operations, including night raids, against residents they accuse of sheltering or supporting members of the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) gang, the Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State (ISIS). During these raids, Taliban forces have beaten residents and have detained men they accuse of being ISKP members without legal process or revealing their whereabouts to their families. An unknown number have been summarily executed — shot, hanged, or beheaded — or forcibly disappeared.
"We investigated an emptied canal in 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.. in which over 100 bodies have been dumped between August 2021 and April 2022," said Patricia Gossman, associate Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "Taliban authorities appear to have given their forces free rein to detain, ’disappear,’ and kill alleged krazed killers."
Between October 2021 and June 2022, Human Rights Watch, working with a local organization that cannot be identified for security reasons, interviewed 63 people, including 42 in person in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, and 21 by phone.
In November, a team from both groups counted 54 bodies of men, many in an advanced state of decomposition, along a 15 to 20 kilometer stretch of the emptied canal. The bodies showed evidence of torture and brutal executions: some had missing limbs, ropes around their necks, or had been beheaded or had slit throats. Healthcare workers in Nangarhar said that they had registered 118 bodies that had been found across the province between August and December.
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Vice and Virtue at a presser said that the ministry has received 214 complaints in the month of June.
Akif Mahajir, the front man of this ministry, said that all these complaints have been addressed.
"The ministry received 214 complaints during the month of June, of which 12 petitions were linked to prisoners, 5 petitions were related to the seizure of houses, and the other 6 petitions were related to the seizing of cars. All of them have been addressed," said Akif Mahajir, the ministry's spokesperson.
According to the front man of the ministry, the orders of the Islamic Emirate are recommendations for the people but are mandatory for the members of the Islamic Emirate.
"At the Ministry of Vice and Virtue we behave with people as gently as possible, but we behave seriously with the members of the Islamic Emirate and the military, because with the reform of the system, the society will also be reformed," Mahajir added.
Mawlawi Abdurrahman Mounir, a deputy in the Ministry of Vice and Virtue's complaints department, said that the ministry's activities are focused on the military, civilians and complaint processing, and about 8,000 people are employed across the country.
Good to know.
"Our policy is that it belongs to the civilian, we conduct this process very properly and softly, and nobody has been harassed or treated brutally, and God willing, no one will present such an example, but the activities of the previous government do not belong to us," he stated.
Officials of this Ministry of Vice and Virtue added that men and women can go to recreation cites separately and women must observe the Islamic hijab defined by the Islamic Emirate.
[KhaamaPress] The National Resistance® Front of Afghanistan (NRF),
...the necessary reincarnation of the primarily Tajik Northern Alliance that drove back the Taliban a generation ago, based in the Panjshir Valley...
headed by Ahmad Massoud,
...son of the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud...
will reportedly meet with Taliban ...Arabic for students... leaders in Dushanbe, according to Sputnik Tajikistan.
The date of the conference is currently undetermined, but it is planned to invite 50 participants to attend, including representatives from political parties, intellectuals, prominent people, and others.
According to Sputnik Tajikistan, citing a source within the National Resistance® Front of Afghanistan, the purpose of the conference is to seek a political solution to the current crisis and to build an inclusive government that includes all political factions in Afghanistan.
The Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe—the embassy of the former Afghan government—has been cited by the media as the source of this information’s veracity.
They claimed that neither official bodies nor National Resistance® Front representatives had informed them of such information; hence they did not have such information.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... met with Ahmad Massoud on his visit to Tajikistan and was interested in Massoud’s vision of the circumstances in Afghanistan, according to Asia Plus News, citing reliable sources.
The National Resistance® Front of Afghanistan (NRF), often referred to as the Second Resistance®, is an anti-Taliban military alliance largely composed of members of the Northern Alliance and other fighters who are faithful to the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan.
News reports suggest that the NRF led by Ahmad Massoud is determined to hold a meeting in #Tajikistan with the presence of #Taliban representatives. The exact date of this meeting has not been determined; but it has been said that representatives of political parties... pic.twitter.com/mc9mJ8CMNJ
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Finance (MoF) said it has collected more than 24 billion Afs in revenue from customs offices within the first three months of the fiscal year — a promising figure for a country that has been suffering from financial loose since the fall last August.
The ongoing political crisis has "hit hard" private sectors in Afghanistan, where businesses were halted and put to uncertainty, according to a latest survey conducted by the World Bank, private companies have laid off more than a half of their employees on average.
"Approximately, so far, more than 24.16 billion Afs has been made in revenue," said Ahmad Wali Haqmal, a front man for the MoF, as TOLOnews quoted. "This is good revenue compared to the previous years."
The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) said that the exports and imports have had a positive impact on this year’s revenue, adding the surge in exports of coal caused the rise in the country’s annual revenue.
"The previous year’s first period (three months), the exports were worth nearly $200 million, and it is now more than $400 million," said Khanjan Alokozai, a member of the ACCI. "Last year, we had one billion dollars in exports and this year I hope it increases to one and half billion dollars.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... Afghan economist expressed joy over the increased revenue, saying such a progress is promising and it could help the country improve its economy amid ongoing concerns about poverty across Afghanistan.
"The exports caused an increase in investment and it helps to develop of the country’s economic status," said Seyar Qureshi, an economist, as local media quoted.
Based on the available numbers of the MoE, more than five billion Afs from Islam Qala port, 3.5 billon Afs from Torkham crossing, nearly three billon Afs from Spin Boldak were made in revenue for the government within the first three months of the fiscal year, according to the report.
Pakistan has huge coal deposits. It doesn't need to buy coal from Afghanistan. The only reason this is being done is to make Taliban happy so they might not give tough time to Pakistan at the border and with TTP. That's the only real story here. https://t.co/ztY7vNs5d3
[KhaamaPress] In a letter to Congress dated July 6th, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan... stated that he officially intended to revoke Afghanistan’s designation as a major non-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... ally.
"In accordance with section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2321k), I am providing notice of my intent to rescind the designation of Afghanistan as a Major Non‑NATO Ally," president Biden wrote to House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... The United States designated Afghanistan as a major non-NATO ally in 2012, paving the groundwork for the two nations to continue their defense and economic ties.
As a non-NATO ally, there is no mutual defense guarantee, in contrast to the NATO allies of the US, who are tied together by a joint defense agreement.
Afghanistan’s ally status has allowed for expedited sales and leases of military equipment even after NATO forces had left, as well as eligibility for military training and assistance.
Nearly a year has passed since the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan, which the United States had supported, was tossed by Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces in Kabul, which prompted the Defense and State Departments under Biden’s administration to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan.
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... is financing other Death Eater groups across Africa, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has revealed, in what could trigger coordinated crackdown against the turbans within the Horn of Africa nation, which is battling with instability.
The group, which has been earmarked as one of the most dangerous terrorist organization with links to al-Qaeda, controls huge swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, and had vowed to topple the UN-backed government, which is yet exposed to fragility.
At Ankara in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... while visiting Somalia soldiers training in the country, the Somali president alleged that al-Shabaab has been financing other terrorist groups in Mozambique and Nigeria, where the turbans have been killing thousands of people.
Although President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud did not name the specific groups, in Mozambique, a terror group called al-Shabaab controls parts of Cabo Delgado province in the north where thousands of people have been killed or subjected to forced displacement.
There is, however, no evidence linking the group in Mozambique to al-Shabaab turbans in Somalia. The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... has dispatched security personnel, especially from Rwanda to the province where they are expected to assist local security forces in degrading the group.
In Nigeria, Boko Harum terror group has also been targeting security forces and innocent civilians but there is no evidence of close cooperation with al-Shabaab. The Somalia president did not give concrete evidence either in his speech.
The president further said the money collected by al-Shabaab also finances parent group al-Qaeda which has roots in Middle East and North Africa. He vowed to ensure the sources of revenue collected by the group are completely sealed by the government.
"We have evidence that the money collected by al-Shabaab is used in financing terror groups in Mozambique and Nigeria with some going to al-Qaeda," said the president. "We’ll shut down these revenue streams."
The president hailed the soldiers for their "patriotism" and urged them to focus on helping the country gain stability. He also thanked Turkey, which trains both Gorgor Special Forces and Haramacad coppers, noting that their support is invaluable to the Horn of Africa nation.
"We thank you for this patriotism of standing with our beloved country. You have indeed made us proud," he said. "To our partners Turkey, we are extremely happy for this support which we can't take for granted. This indeed demonstrates a good relationship existing amongst us."
Ottoman Turkish President Recep T. Erdogan who pledged continued strategic partnership with Somalia revealed that so far, Ankara has trained over 5,000 Gorgor special forces and over 1000 coppers. He vowed to continue helping Somalia in state-building.
A report published by the United States African Command showed that al-Shabaab is the most funded al-Qaeda partner in Africa, terming it "strategic and dangerous". Recently, Washington authorized the redeployment of over 500 US troops to the country, a year after unprecedented withdrawal.
The Heritage Institute of Policy Studies, a Mogadishu-based Think Tank, also revealed that al-Shabaab operates with an annual budget of $100 million. Of this budget, the report added, al-Shabaab sets aside over $24 million for the purchase of weapons mainly from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Hassan Sheikh Mohamud hinted at possible negotiation with al-Shabaab but maintained the country is currently determined to degrade the group through military and economic sabotage. There are close to 22,000 African Union Transition Mission [ATMIS] troops in the country.
[NYPOST] The Biden administration has quietly given the green light to completing a border barrier separating Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, from Mexico — a project that was initially planned by the Trump White House.
In late May, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would replace a "deteriorated barrier" located near the cross-border Friendship Park in Imperial Beach, just south of San Diego.
In the announcement, the department said the barrier "has not been treated to withstand corrosion from nearby ocean waters and currently poses safety risks to Border Patrol agents, community members, and migrants colonists."
Funding for the project, DHS added, would be drawn from funds allocated to pay for President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s infamous border wall.
Late last month, immigration advocates said they were told construction would soon begin on two 30-foot barriers that would extend the existing wall all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
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Hispanics trending Republican finally beginning to have an impact?
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They want to channel the flow to AZ and TX. CA impact is overwhelming the state's ability to pay out all the benefits offered to illegals.
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The Gringo side has been closed for a while, much to the screeching of the American Friends Service Committee Legal Alien Transportation Enthusiasts
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[NYPOST] In what he called an “unprecedented action” made necessary because “President Biden refuses to do his job,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... has issued an executive order authorizing his state’s National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety to arrest immigrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry and return them to Mexico.
“While President Biden refuses to do his job and enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress, the State of Texas is once again stepping up and taking unprecedented action to protect Americans and secure our southern border,” Abbott said in a press release Thursday announcing the zero-tolerance policy.
Only the federal government is legally authorized to enforce immigration law. As legal justification, Abbott cites Article IV, § 4 of the US Constitution.
“‘[T]he United States … shall protect each [State in this Union] against Invasion,’ and thus has forced the State of Texas to build a border wall, deploy state military forces, and enter into agreements as described in Article I, § 10 of the U.S. Constitution to secure the State of Texas and repel the illegal immigration that funds the cartels.”
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National Guard.
JB controllers could just issue a WH order telling the "National" Guard to stand down.
Hence, why several States are exploring restarting and funding State controlled Guards.
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Biden and his socialist cadre will likely declare a Federal military zone (US Border FEMA Region) and prevent State law enforcement or National Guard from entering.
I suspect Abbott knows bad things are in store, possibly the reason he has not taken this action previously. The Federal government cannot stand by and let this happen. Could be some rough sledding ahead for America.
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"In addition, no state, without the approval of both houses of Congress, may collect taxes on imports or exports, raise an army or harbor warships in times of peace, nor otherwise declare or engage in war unless invaded or in imminent danger."
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GOPe want's open borders more than Joe does.
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The solution to America's border problems: Recognize other countries' problems and refuse to import them. Accept that we cannot solve their problems by making them our problems too.
People who cannot speak English and have a third-grade education are not the next Einstein or Elon Musk. Accept that.
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Texas has a State Guard that does not answer to the Feds. Has had that for quite some time, dating back to the militia days, officially existing as it is now since 1943. Tasked with border security and internal security and natural disaster assistance, as well as supporting the Army and Airforce national guard units. Has coastal and riverine Naval/Patrol elements, Air elements, logistics elements, and medical elements. Part of the Texas Military Department, Commanded by the Adjutant General of Texas, who reports to the Governor. 4 brigades and a HQ.
It was said in a recent national security meeting in Pakistan that there are approximately 30K TTP fighters. Previous estimates from UN were around 1500-3000. I don't know about the 30K figure but it's true that TTP strength has increased due to recent defections.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli organization says that rather than taking the material out of the 2022 curriculum, the UN Paleostinian refugee agency has merely taken it off its public education portal.
IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff said in the statement that UNRWA promised last year to remove all offending content.
“It seems that UNRWA has interpreted this as removal from the website where it can be scrutinized, rather than removal from actual classrooms,” Sheff said. “UNRWA was again made aware of our concerns just two months ago.”
[Rudaw] As the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Thursday on humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... , Russia agreed to continue such deliveries but only for six months - not a year, as many U.N. Security Council members, Secretary-General 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... and more than 30 nongovernmental groups want.
Russia proposed amendments to a draft resolution by Ireland and Norway reducing their year-long time frame for deliveries. Council diplomats said consultations were continuing late Wednesday to see if a compromise could be reached.
The Security Council scheduled a vote for Thursday morning. If no compromise appeared, the draft resolution by Ireland and Norway to extend cross-border deliveries for 12 months would be voted on first. If it failed to get nine votes, or was vetoed by Russia, the Russian resolution with a six-month extension would then be put to a vote.
In early July 2020, China and Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have maintained two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Idlib. Days later, the council authorized the delivery of aid through just one of those crossings, Bab al-Hawa. That one-year mandate was extended for a year on July 9, 2021, and expires this Sunday.
The Russian proposal called for increased efforts to ensure "full, safe and unhindered" deliveries of humanitarian assistance across conflict lines within Syria, according to the Russian draft obtained Wednesday by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
It also would authorize the establishment of "a special working group" comprising concerned council members, major donors, interested regional parties and representatives of international humanitarian agencies "in order to regularly review and follow-up on the implementation of this resolution."
Neither of those proposals were in the Ireland-Norway draft resolution.
Northwest Idlib is the last rebel-held bastion in Syria and al Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... is the strongest holy warrior group in the region. The U.N. said last week that the first 10 years of the Syrian conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians -- the highest official estimate of civilian casualties.
In a letter to Security Council ambassadors obtained Wednesday by the AP, former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo warned that by approving cross-border deliveries to northwest Syria, council members "could find themselves materially supporting a U.N.-designated terrorist organization."
He said northwest Syria "is controlled by Al-Nusra, a U.N. designated terrorist organization affiliated with al Qaeda and currently called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham."
Any support to a "terrorist organization, including humanitarian assistance," is prohibited by previous U.N. Security Council resolutions, Ocampo said.
To avoid a "flagrant violation" of its resolutions, he said the Security Council should have the operation monitoring cross-border deliveries confirm that the al Qaeda-linked groups "are not involved in implementing humanitarian aid" or remove Al-Nusra-Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from the "terrorist" list.
[IsraelTimes] Accord now needs domestic approvals, which could be held up because of Israeli coalition’s collapse; Israeli carriers still locked out of lucrative market over security spat
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Turkey was prideful of their drones and gifted some to Kiev. Well Russia has just invented and produced an electronic Stupor electromagnetic drone gun.
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.
...Arabic for 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
...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...
