[ToloNews] Hundreds of vehicles loaded with goods crossed Torkham pass on Monday after it was closed by Pakistain the day before, Rooters reported on Tuesday.
"The vehicles that arrived here last night were stranded for the last three, four days. When the gate opened yesterday, a lot of vehicles arrived here and trade boomed," said Hazrat Omar, a trader.
Pakistain closed the Torkham pass on Sunday as the Afghan side came under Taliban ...Arabic for students... control.
The Torkham pass was reopened for bilateral trade with Afghanistan later on Sunday.
Zahidulla Shinwari, director of the Pakistain-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce And Industry, said they wanted peace and stability for trade irrespective of which government rules Afghanistan.
Taliban bully boyz took control of the presidential palace in Kabul as US-led forces departed and Western nations scrambled on Monday to evacuate their citizens.
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[KhaamaPress] The United States Charge’ d’Affaires Ross Wilson on his Twitter post said that he and the embassy staff are still in Kabul and are helping Americans and vulnerable Afghans who are leaving the country.
The Tweet further reads that their commitments to Afghan people endure and the US embassy is continuing engagement in Afghanistan.
The US embassy’s mission is now solely focused on evacuating thousands of US nationals and the vulnerable Afghans who will also be relocated to a third country or directly to the US.
For the mission to get functioned flawlessly, US president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... has directed the deployment of up to 6 thousand troops and warned the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to face a swift response if attacked.
The US envoy to Afghanistan though did not say anything about their current location in Kabul, there were reports about the embassy’s staff to be relocated to Kabul airport.
Ross Wilson issued an alert asking people to not go to Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International Airport in Kabul until they get an e-mail from the embassy. There were thousands of people congregated in Kabul airport looking for any single chance to board any plane out of Afghanistan among them hundreds have boarded a plane on Monday night and flown out.
The alert comes a day after three people clinging to the tires of a US plane fall to death.
#2
Hey man that's why the Taliban caused all this ruckus in the first place; they were after the flags for a base theme for their new Islamic Am I right of Afghanistan flag... you know... to attract the Correct PC people to their cause.
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Any credibility to The Marines manning the local McDonald's?
Focussing on the small piece that is not their fault instead of the vast majority that they own.
[IsraelTimes] ‘The process could have been handled so differently,’ senior officer says of State Department’s costly delay in setting up ad hoc structure to withdraw US allies to safety.
[TWITTER]
In case anyone is wondering how what is happening in Afghanistan is possible… in May of this year, @SecDef Lloyd Austin identified climate change as the #1 issue facing the military. #2 was countering violent extremists in the military. #3 was team work with allies and agencies.
— Wade Miller 1️⃣7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ (@WadeMiller_USMC) August 16, 2021
#1
So the Pentagon (or some part of it) is having a "you made us look bad" moment, but they'll still be ready to stomp down on all us white supremacist domestic extremist proles when their progressive masters tell them to.
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/\ Yes, and very likely with US dollars provided by the current administration in Washington. Unfortunately, our Top Men could not have predicted such an outcome befalling their feckless generosity.
#2
After our withdraw, the North invaded. They were defeated by the South Vietnamese army. They received air support and material aid from Washington. Then the Donk Congress pulled all aid and forced Nixon out. The second North Vietnamese invasion succeeded.
#3
This imbecile was a senator when they cut aid to SVN he knew exactly what happened...ref Procopius. Yet he recites some narrative that sounds like he got it from Cher.
#5
Amazing that we were in Afghanistan so much longer than we were in Vietnam. Apparently we can never leave (as in Germany/Japan/Korea) if we want to ensure the peace. Good to know next time we think about this sort of thing.
#6
There will be no 'next time'
With this one (AFG) we were -pushed into it by 9/11/01-
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He and his crew have run this place for ABOUT 20 YEARS - It would be appropriate to retire Rantburg on or about its Anniversary Date
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[EN.MEHRNEWS] The exact location of the runaway Afghan president is unknown, but he is said to have traveled to Oman to escape to the United States.The Taliban ...Arabic for students... effectively sealed their control of Afghanistan on Sunday, pouring into the capital, Kabul, and meeting little resistance as President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. 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... fled the country, the government collapsed.
It was initially reported that Ghani along with National Security Adviser Hamdullah Muhib and head of the administrative office of President, Fazel Mahmood Fazli left Afghanistan for Tajikistan. But Dushanbe denied that.
It was then said that he had traveled to Uzbekistan.
Ghani has been accused of treason by Afghans and presently, no official information is available from his location.
Afghanistan Defence Minister Bismillah Mohammadi, in a tweet apparently referring to President Ashraf Ghani and his associates, lamented that they "tied our hands behind our backs and sold the homeland, damn the rich man and his gang".
Head of High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , in a video clip, said that Ghani left Afghanistan.
He said that he left the people of Afghanistan in mess and misery and he will be judged in futurity.
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I'm guessing he'll have to leave the carloads of cash in Oman before that happens.
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/\ I don't think so CF. I suspect it fell much faster than the administration anticipated. The WH was hoping for a September EXFIL. The Taliban took the USAID (or somebody's) money, flipped local officials and the Afghan Army.
[ABCNEWS.GO] "[U.S.] leaders were told by the military it would take no time at all for the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... to take everything," an anonymous U.S. intelligence official told ABC News. "No one listened."
Among the intelligence that sources said was shared with the administration were claims that some members of Pakistain's intelligence services, who helped create and organize the Taliban 25 years ago, were supporting the Taliban over the summer. ABC News has seen evidence of Pak government ID cards found among deceased fighters, but could not verify their authenticity.
Other intelligence sources said that Biden and his team of advisers had reached their decision about the U.S. military's withdrawal -- which was all but completed on July 4 -- based on a variety of factors that went beyond Kabul's fate.
A senior congressional official who asked not to be named in order to discuss sensitive briefings told ABC News that intelligence officers had warned the U.S. leaders about a swift and total victory by the fundamentalist Talibs who had held power in Kabul during the late 1990s up until after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The intelligence community assessment has always been accurate; they just disregarded it," the official told ABC News, speaking about the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... Among the intelligence that sources said was shared with the administration were claims that some members of Pakistain's intelligence services, who helped create and organize the Taliban 25 years ago, were supporting the Taliban over the summer. ABC News has seen evidence of Pak government ID cards found among deceased fighters, but could not verify their authenticity.
Appearing on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday morning, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mostly dodged questions about the administration's miscalculations, insisting that "this is manifestly not Saigon" -- even as live video from Kabul showed helicopters ferrying American officials out of the U.S. embassy compound to the military side of Kabul's airport.
Blinken had said for months that such a collapse was possible, but highly unlikely. Pressed in June by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) during a Foreign Affairs Committee oversight hearing on the growing crisis, Blinken said, "I don't think it's going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday. I wouldn't necessarily equate the departure of our forces in July, August or by early September with some kind of immediate deterioration in the situation."
In May, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with the Taliban leadership in Doha, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , had also told the House committee that fears about a total fall of the Afghan government were misplaced.
"I personally believe that the predictions that the Afghan forces will collapse right away -- they are not right," said Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad. "We will help, we are helping them now. We will help them. This is our commitment."
Now, thousands of Afghans who worked for the U.S. military or fought side-by-side with American forces -- including those still in the pipeline for special immigrant visas -- fear Taliban reprisals in occupied cities such as Kabul.
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Appearing on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday morning, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mostly dodged questions about the administration's miscalculations, insisting that.... "this is manifestly not Saigon"
#4
At least the South Vietnamese turned back the first invasion of the country by the North. Then the Donk Congress cut all aid money making the second one successful.
#6
I believe that much of the ABC reporting over the last five days has been a grain of truth covered by bullshit. If the CIA had been so insistent it certainly did not get that point across to the NYTimes, which has been its media handmaiden and whose ability to PYA and CYA is almost as notorious as that practiced by the CIA itself.
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I'm going to give it several 'shots' with
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I'll check back tomorrow with the results...
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Where is the shame? Where are the resignations?
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There are none, nor will there be...it'll all go away in the 1.5 week news cycle...August 31, 2021 another major JRB,jr. cockup will have happened...trust him on this.
#3
Congressman Doug Lamborn recently questioned Defense Secretary Austin & Joint Chief Chair Milley About Afghanistan
What they said should get them fired today
[All Africa] The rapid gains made by Mozambican and Rwandan government forces against Islamic bully boyz in the country's northern Cabo Delgado region is giving new hope to thousands of civilians who have been trapped in the conflict for over a year.Humanitarian organizations, including United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... agencies, who had been forced to abandon the strategic town of Mocimba da Praia after bully boyz overran it last year, could now return and offer life-saving services. The pull-out left residents without food and medical supplies.
After Rwanda deployed 1,000 soldiers last month, Mozambican government forces started reclaiming territory from the gang linked to the 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.... (ISIS). Mocimva da Praia had fallen to the bully boyz in August last year, but Mozambican Defence spokesperson Omar Saranga said the joint forces last week took control of government buildings, the port, airport and hospital -- important installations in the town.
Mozambican and Rwandan forces are now working on securing surrounding villages, which are still under the control of murderous Moslems, according to Zenaida Machado, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch's Africa Division. This has paved the way for humanitarian organizations to return to Mocimboa da Praia.
"The government should immediately facilitate rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access to Mocimboa da Praia, meeting obligations as a member state of the Kampala Convention, an 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... treaty on internal displacement, and under international humanitarian law," she said.
Ms Machado said the Mozambican authorities must move quickly to ensure humanitarian aid reaches local residents, who have been trapped in the town for more than a year.
"The Mozambican government should move quickly to fully secure Mocimboa da Praia town and surrounding villages before residents return to their homes," said Ms Machada, adding, "Failure to do so could place thousands at risk from further attacks by al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... and fighting between the group and government forces."
Besides Rwanda's firepower, Mozambique's fight against the Islamists has been bolstered by the arrival of forces of other Southern African Development Community countries.
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[Breitbart] British intelligence services have reportedly intercepted communications from murderous Moslems in Afghanistan indicating that UK jihadis have travelled to Afghanistan to join the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Phone calls intercepted from war-torn Afghanistan have revealed jihadis with British accents living among the Taliban. It is believed that the British fighters smuggled themselves into the country following the withdrawal of American military personnel.
"We have received some intercepts of two British men, probably below 30, talking openly on mobiles," a senior military intelligence source told The Sun.
"One had a London accent, what you might call a street accent."
Another security service source reported that the government has "intermittent intelligence" indicating that British fighters have joined forces with the Taliban.
Colonel Richard Kemp CBE, who previously served as a commander of British forces in Afghanistan, said: "Many British and other foreign jihadists travelled to Afghanistan before and after 9/11 to fight there and, in many cases train, organise and then travel elsewhere for jihad.
"The more gains the Taliban makes, the more it will encourage jihadists to carry out attacks at home and also head for Afghanistan.
"If the country, or a large part of it, is permanently controlled by the Taliban it will again become a safe haven for faceless myrmidons as it was before 9/11.
"We are on the verge of a threat no less than that from [the 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.... ] at its height."
In a statement, the government said that British Talibs "pose a very serious national security risk," and that "The Home Secretary has a number of powers available to prevent the return of individuals who pose a national security risk to the UK.
"Those who do return must expect to be investigated by the police."
It is believed that around 800 British nationals travelled to Iraq and Syria to join forces with the Islamic State, many of whom have been allowed to return to the country, often without being prosecuted for anything.
Last year it was revealed that Britannia’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency was aware of at least 43,000 suspected faceless myrmidons living in the United Kingdom.
There have long been concerns over the connections between UK-based terror cells and radical Islamists in Afghanistan, with then-Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson warning in 2018: "We consistently see terrorist groups operating here in Afghanistan, [and] evidence of their links back not just to the United Kingdom but to the whole of Continental Europe."
With the country falling into chaos amid a bungled withdrawal by the Biden Administration, the British government has called on its citizens to evacuate Afghanistan. Some 600 British soldiers have been deployed back into the Islamic republic to help with rescue missions of the estimated 4,000 UK citizens in the country.
[IsraelTimes] UN nuclear watchdog says Tehran produced 200g of material enriched up to 20%, in further departure from deal.
With the chances of a return to the 2015 nuclear deal fading, 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has progressed with producing uranium metal, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
"On 14 August 2021, the Agency verified... that Iran had used 257g of uranium enriched up to 20% U-235 in the form of UF4 (uranium tetrafluoride) to produce 200g of uranium metal enriched up to 20% U-235," the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency wrote, according to Rooters.
Uranium metal can be used as a component in nuclear weapons. Iran had signed up to a 15-year ban on "producing or acquiring plutonium or uranium metals or their alloys," under the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed in 2015 with world powers.
Iran previously told the UN nuclear watchdog that it was advancing research on uranium metal production, saying it is aimed at providing advanced fuel for a research reactor in Tehran.
The IAEA added that the move was step three in a four-step plan, the fourth being the production of a reactor fuel plate, according to Rooters.
But Iran has insisted its nuclear activities are peaceful and that it is not aiming at building a weapon.
Former United States president Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... pulled out of the deal in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions that have choked Iran’s oil-dependent economy. Iran has responded by walking back measures it had agreed to abide by, including enriching uranium to unprecedented levels, near weapons-grade.
Talks kicked off in April in Vienna to find a way to bring both parties back to the deal. But the last round took place on June 20, with no date set for when they would resume. The EU chairs the meetings.
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.... , Trump’s successor, has signaled his readiness to return to the nuclear deal and has engaged in indirect negotiations with Iran alongside formal talks with the agreement’s remaining parties, Britannia, China, La Belle France, Germany, and Russia.
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For Stinky stuff and Giggles, lets say its a given they have built a 10+ KT dirty nuke.
But I'd bet y'all saying they could never get it into the USA.
So let me share some publicly available historical info. Back in 2002, then Senator Biden was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He asked a few US nuclear labs IF a terrorist group could construct an Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) nuclear weapon using nothing but commercially obtainable parts. It took them just a few months to report back YES and with a working model. They also did so without any illegal activities and avoided setting off any NEST warning flares.
Then Biden had them bring their home-built device to the Senate, minus the Nuke source.
See congressional recordCREC-2002-06-26
Start reading at Page 11 bottom right and continues. But the real interesting part is page 13 lower left column and continues.
So the question is NOT IF, BUT WHEN & WHERE a Iranian type Nuke will be popped. Followed by what will Tehran look like 30 days later.
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...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
...knaves, footpads, and 
Appearing on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday morning, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mostly dodged questions about the administration's miscalculations, insisting that.... "this is manifestly not Saigon" 
...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 
...Arabic for 
...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....
