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Afghanistan
Russia Says There Is Evidence US Secretly Sponsoring Daesh in Afghanistan
2023-01-21
Official Iranian news site quoting Russia. Take the probability that one of them is telling the truth and multiply it by the probability that the other is telling the truth to get the overall probability that the words are in any way true.
[FarsNews] There is evidence that the United States is trying to establish ties with the opponents of the current authorities of Afghanistan and secretly sponsor the ISIS (also known as ISIS or ISIS) terrorist organization, Russian special presidential envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said on Friday.

"Yes, there is such data, they [the US authorities] do it not for good, but for harm, because they really want to avenge their shameful military-political defeat in Afghanistan and, in retaliation, they do everything so that peace is not established in this long-suffering land, but even worse is that, in addition to contacts with the armed opposition in Afghanistan, the Anglo-Saxons secretly sponsor the ISIS," Kabulov told Russian broadcaster, RIA Novosti reported.

Since the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
return to power in Afghanistan in mid-August, snuffies have allegedly carried out several terrorist attacks across the country, including at the Kabul airport in August in which more than 180 people were killed, and on a Shiite mosque in Kunduz in October that resulted in more than 150 people being killed.

The United States withdrew from Afghanistan in the specified time-frame, but did so haphazardly, causing chaos at the Kabul airport, with Afghans desperately attempting to make it out of the country, and 13 American soldiers killed in a bombing perpetrated by a local branch of the ISIS terror group.

The Taliban government has not been recognized by the international community, although some countries, including Russia and China, are holding diplomatic meetings with representatives of the movement to rectify the humanitarian situation in the country.

According to the UN, ISIS attacks have resulted in around 700 deaths since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  US foreign policy is so incoherent that at this point nothing would surprise me.
Posted by: Tom   2023-01-21 12:30  

#5  /\ Klingon training wheels ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-01-21 10:23  

#4  Sounds like Klingon clients. You know, "influence".
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-01-21 09:51  

#3  Do two lies cancel each other out like 3 lefts make a right?
Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393   2023-01-21 09:23  

#2  What better way to assure their failure than offering US backing?
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-01-21 09:19  

#1  We seek to undermine ISIS with our sponsorship.

This is probably just a miscommunication within the Biden Administration. Some flunky took the order to reimplement all of Obama’s policies too literally. Susan Rice should know better.

Shout out to our Russian friends for being open to the possibility of a Russian proxy war in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-01-21 09:17  

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