[MAIL] Britain's former ambassador to Afghanistan has warned that a failure to halt the country's decline under the Taliban risked future extremism problems for the West.
Sir Laurie Bristow, who was in post when Kabul fell a year ago and was one of the last out of the city, spoke out on the first anniversary of the Islamists' takeover.
Afghanistan is currently suffering a humanitarian crisis with a crippled economy combining with a severe drought and lack of food under their hardline regime.
Speaking to the BBC today Sir Laurie, who was in post for just a few short months between January and August last year, said that the UK was providing aid not just for humanitarian reasons but also 'hard-headed national security' ones.
'I think we have learned the hard way over recent years that where states fail they create resentments and they create anger and they create perceived injustices on which extremists feed,' he said.
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"'I think we have learned the hard way over recent years that where states fail they create resentments and they create anger and they create perceived injustices on which extremists feed,' he said."
Is he talking about Afghanistan or the United States under the Puppet Show?
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains.
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains.
And go to your g-d like a soldier."
[Garowe] Four ISIS members failed to have their death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... overturned in the Appeals Court in the Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... state of Somalia, just as the country fights violent mostly peaceful extremism which has affected the Horn of Africa nation for the last couple of years.
The four Jama Adan Abdirahman Tusbahlay, the head of the terror cell, Ayub Omar Shire, Abdullahi Salaad Bos alias Mahoonge and Mohamud Abshir Musa had tried to convince the Eastern Court of Appeal to quash the death sentence which had been issued by the military court.
Documents availed to the media established that the four were responsible for the planned explosions and murders in Bosaso and sentenced them to death by firing squad. They are now set to face the firing squad in line with the laws of the country.
Evidence provided in the court indicated that the four bully boyz had been coordinating attacks within Puntland, one of the most stable states in Somalia.
Puntland has been working closely with federal authorities to defeat the bully boyz who control huge swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.
The convicts are also on record for admitting the charges labeled against them in various video interviews with some admitting that they worked with the al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... team in the country.
The two groups have destabilized Somalia for the last 10 years, making state-building almost an impossible task.
Abdirahman Shirwac Isse's case was adjourned because he was absent from the court but he was among those who were sentenced to death. Usually, the country does not have a strong legal system but the military courts play an integral role.
Puntland has been steadfast in the fight against terrorism given its commitment and cooperation with federal authorities and other stakeholders. The state has been witnessing attacks in recent months, with al-Shabaab taking responsibility for most of the cases.
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How better to wash money to the Saudis than taking it from your pocket?
Except that President Biden loathes the Saudis. This is the unexpected result of the Biden administration choking off domestic oil production. A year ago the Saudis were still madly cutting domestic spending and steering their youth into practical education tso they’d be able to be self-supporting when the oil money ran out.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Saudi Aramco has posted the biggest profit for any listed company in the world as it cashed in on booming oil prices.
The energy firm, which is over 94 per cent owned by the Saudi state, reported a record profit of £40billion in the second quarter of the year.
This was almost double the £21billion generated in the same period in 2021 amid rising oil prices and higher sales.
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Not too much of a surprise. Destroy energy independence in the U.S. and its not too surprising that S.A. is doing well. I smell some behind the scene payoffs.
[IsraelTimes] Military’s liaison to Paleostinians says ’combined policy’ of helping civilians while not allowing terror buildup has also led to over 300% increase in movement through border.
In data shared by Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), exports from Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... to the West Bank were expected to shoot up by 27 percent this year, continuing a trend. In 2020, the total number of trucks exporting goods from Gaza to the West Bank was 3,397; in 2021 it was 4,003; and by the end of this year it is expected to reach 5,117, according to estimates.
Exports from Gaza to Israel were also expected to rise by an unprecedented 93.8%, according to COGAT. In 2020, some 1,181 trucks carrying exports entered Israel from Gaza; 2,588 in 2021; and this year the number is expected to reach 5,016.
According to COGAT, crossings between Gaza and Israel increased by 311% percent this year. In 2020, some 122,400 crossing were recorded; in 2021 the number rose to 163,500; and this year the number shot up to 672,000, according to the data.
Currently, some 14,000 Gazook Paleostinians have work permits to enter Israel. The Defense Ministry has signed off on a tentative plan to eventually raise the number of permits to 20,000, an unprecedented increase. In mid-2021, just 7,000 Paleostinians from Gaza had permits to work or trade in Israel.
Defense officials say allowing more Gazooks to work in Israel will pump much-needed income into the impoverished coastal enclave while encouraging stability.
According to COGAT, Gaza’s local unemployment rate dropped by 5.5% over the last quarter to 44.7%, with the average daily salary rising slightly to NIS 61.7 ($19).
The workers allowed to cross into Israel to work might get as much as NIS 400 ($115.66) per day, according to a report by Times of Israel sister site Zman Yisrael.
According to Alian, after last week’s fighting against the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group, Israel "returned to the implementation of the civil policy towards the Gaza Strip with limitations on the issue of reconstruction, until there is progress with the missing and captured."
Israel has said it is preventing large-scale reconstruction of Gaza after last year’s 11-day war, unless Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, returns detained civilians Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, and the remains of IDF troops Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul who were killed in 2014’s war.
[Rudaw] Over 70 families affiliated with 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) were readying to leave the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) to return to their homes in Deir ez-Zor on Sunday, a conflict monitor reported marking the first batch to leave the camp since ISIS’ prison break attempt earlier in the year.
About 400 people from 77 Syrian families were preparing to leave the camp later in the day, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), with a ground network in Syria reported.
Attempts to take back Syrian families from al-Hol camp stopped in January after ISIS attempted to break thousands of its affiliates and members out of al-Sina'a prison in Hasaka province. The facility, also known to locals as the Ghweran prison, houses thousands of ISIS-linked prisoners.
A batch of 53 families had left al-Hol before the prison break attempt in January.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the internal security forces (Asayish) regained control of the prison following days of festivities.
This is the 23rd batch of Syrian families set to be removed from the camp since evacuation efforts began in October 2020.
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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.
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
...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 
